What's the bigger problem in US politics? Working-class conservative voters, or billionaire Democratic donors?

Question

Which is the bigger obstacle to real political reform?

working class conservatives are a problem because of their blind acceptance of falsehoods told to them by a corporate elite that are robbing them blind and destroying their country. However, I don't believe they are the biggest problem.

sgreger, I never said the richest 1% were Republicans, and they certainly don't only give money to, and own, Republicans.

hannibal, why don't you do some research into who funds the Democratic party and how much they are worth. You will find George Soros is not an exception.

Answer 1

Exactly why are working class conservative voters a problem?

And I expect your answer to be a verifiable fact and not an opinion or a link to someone else's opinion you happen to agree with. Thanks.

Edit:
You said

I'm not going to comment further. Your statement speaks for itself.

:)

Answer 2

Truman said the buck stops here ,Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex , Kennedy began social change and stood tough on the cold war . Johnson Got us deeper into Vietnam and slowed change with integration , Nixon what can you say about him other then he was a real politician , a power player that knew knowing as much as you can was never enough . He was a great negotiator and would of made a great ambassador .
Ford Was a conservatives conservative in most matters . he did cut the military a bit to hold the budget .
Now Carter while a brilliant man and wonderful humanitarian was not ready for politics in Washington .
He had his own mind and a great administration but was never able to accomplish much . The power brokers and movers and shakers destroyed Carter by cursing his presidency with high interest rates and unemployment and inflation in the double digits . If you can't control it over whelm it .
Reagan was a wet dream for republicans . He could deliver a speech and played the part of world leader better then anyone and was always asleep at the right time . He had some give and take and could work well with business and government . His spending like Bush senior and junior was unreasonable and Junior Bush our current leader has bankrupted America .
I never thought it possible but he did it .
They will not admit it and we will print lots more money because of him .
And as For Bill smart horny and a real player . He handled this nation better then anyone has for over 100 years and thats because I am not a history buff and was not around to gage the actual effect of other presidencies during a relatively peaceful time .

The working class has taken it on the chin in the last 25 years and is really beginning to show signs of weakening .
This is the first sign of real trouble for us .
Cause two schools of thought prevail Tighten the money supply and cut government spending and the alternative is a mild rise in interest rates and increased spending on defense .
BUsh has managed to appear good to some but the truth is unemployment really sits around 9% the jobs under his tenure have been low wage and government employment .
This is not good and we need someone with the ability to juggle the books for a time cut the debt I say print a few hundred billion and spread it around at gambling houses prostitution and home grown drugs . Cause all those people will need lawers jail cells and spend it fast lol .
We need help from some smart folks to get us back on track .
We face real problems in the next 20 years and we need some great leaders .
SO far no one stands out at all .

Answer 3

per chance at the same time as Dubya's failed "compassionate conservatism" became a comic book tale, human beings gave on the GOP. or maybe at the same time as "trickle down" economics did not trickle down. or maybe at the same time as the hollow between wealthy and detrimental persevered to widen for the thirtieth quickly 3 hundred and sixty 5 days in a row. The info is there, interior the song record of conservative guidelines as utilized interior the U.S. ever on account that Ronald Reagan became president. ok, now I see you're a Brit. Your Conservative celebration isn't an same as ours interior the U.S. All i visit claim is you've a not ordinary artwork celebration that is meant to characterize the operating type interior the U.ok., so i could wager that the Conservatives have a unique constituency.

Answer 4

Name for me the probable 1 or 2 democratic billionaires besides Soros? They're nearly all Republican for a reason...
It worked for them they wabt to get richer so they're conservative about everything.

You don't give the American voter enough respect. Most of us are quite liberal. (Working-Class is not lawyers, business owners and stock brokers) Real Working Class people know just how close to they are to having nothing and are usually grateful for being blessed enough not to be poor. Real Working Class people know that not everyone who is poor is stupid or lazy because some of those people are our friends and some of them are us. Real Working class people know our goverment is a joke and all are laws are designed not for the sake of they're growth but for the protection of the order of these billionaires who are by no means "Democratic".

I have never met a conservative working class person. I have met people who were pissed of at the Government and who didn't like liberals because they were too idealistic but these folks were by no means conservative. The people your are talking about are the ones with the big mouths who got wealthy through someone elses work and now claim they did it themselves and so should you.....your probably one of those people aren't you?

Answer 5

I would say the donors that are completely anonymous are the biggest problem. Its never a good feeling to wonder if a campaign is being funded by Osama Bin Laden and the money his family has.

Answer 6

I'd hate to say it, but I believe it to be the latter. Conservative working class voters tend to be less educated and therefore more easily swayed by conservative rhetoric, and end up voting against their own economic interests to support the politics of prejudice, which republicans call "traditional values".

In short, gay-haters are hurting our electoral process more than Hollywood donors, because they are allowing themselves to be exploited for their votes by coded language that supports their fears and dislikes.

That's what I think, and I do NOT mean that the middle and lower class working American is un-intelligent. I believe him to have been misled-that's all.

Answer 7

Working-class conservative voters, as they are too ignorant to realise the cons don't give the slightest sh*t about the working class.

Your question seems to be making an erranious point, which I hope others notice.

Republicans seem to be the ones with mega-bucks, not the democrats.

Answer 8

Democrats blaming guns for every ill in America.
Republicans hating every poor and working class person in America.
Democrat's abortion on demand
Republican's deficit spending which devalues the dollar
Democrat's cowardice to speak their political mind
Republican's lies, lies, and more Bush lies on every ones minds

Answer 9

wow you think people who are Conservative, middle class and voters are a problem?

why? are they not as smart as you? Wow... you must be really smart, I mean using the Internet as a tool to attack people you disagree with using a faceless method to insult and degrade... Brilliant...

Sorry but the problem with US politics is extremism from either political spectrum.

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Answer 10

the answer is clearly people like you are the problem. I wasn't aware one voter is any different than the others. If you had enough common sense you'd notice that us working-class conservatives vote and don't donate the millions of dollars that democratic machines do.

You should me asking who hurts politics more democratic machines or idiot liberal voters who have no clue what or why they are voting for someone, just as long it is not republican (aka YOURSELF)...