A majority of voters voted for inflation, high unemployment, and jobs losses via businesses closing down. They were told and wouldn’t listen. We point it out as it happens.
I had a female liberal acquaintance—in her mid-20s, constantly complaining about being broke, rooming with a friend, both of them barely scraping by on crap jobs—tell me on Twitter last night that it was more important that she have “reproductive rights” than a job. Seriously.
Romney lost the 18-29 vote by FIVE POINT ONE MILLION. The younger generation, most of it anyway, completely bought into the lies of Romney, the most liberal Republican nominee in decades, being a super-evil right-wing Mormon fanatic fascist that wanted to keep women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, wanted to ban contraception, wanted to legalize rape (!), wanted to keep the poor and women and “brown people” from getting ANY health care, wanted to kill homosexuals. THEY BELIEVE THIS STUFF.
It was a very depressing experience last night for me to realize that these people barely a generation behind me aren’t even the same species. It’s like they live in a different dimension. They’re the kind of people that, as the Obama Americorps firing squad had them lined up against the wall to shoot, would be blaming Bush for making it possible by repealing the assault weapons ban.
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