My cynical theory is that many people vote Republican
FOR low taxes, even during war (not noticing that they pay more for healthcare, gas, groceries, school, services, etc.) and sometimes
FOR bigotry (against gays, women, blacks, immigrants, and whoever is the media's whipping post that season), and
FOR a perception that Republicans are "tough"
I think that many Republican voters vote AGAINST Democrats to vote
AGAINST intellectuals
AGAINST people who are different from them
Greed and bigotry are constant sins, but why don't we value intelligence? Why this anti-intellectualism?
ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN THE MEDIA:
While concluding that President Bush "has proved to be lawless and reckless" and "started a war he cannot finish, drove the government into debt and repeatedly defied the Constitution," David Broder explains why Bush was preferable to Al Gore and John Kerry: Their "know-it-all arrogance rankled Midwesterners such as myself." Cable News Confidential author Jeff Cohen: another who gives a damn [Gore is from the Midwest, and why is it that rightwingers keep implying that Midwesterners and Southerners aren't smart?]
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