Why do people vote against their own self-interest?

Opinion: If We're Not Dumb, How Can We Appear So Stupid?
By Dom Stasi
Bush Watch

What caused so many Americans (59,054,087 if one believes the vote count) to reward this profoundly failed president and his designing men with a second term?

What motivated so many of our countrymen, after observing this guy, this mutant prince, this chronic incompetent whose proximate tenure proved him neither intelligent nor rational nor honest nor temperate, what caused us to unbridle such a dismal failure by providing him a docile, if equally corrupt legislative majority of more designing men to do his bidding and pillaging in our name?

What blinded nearly 60 million Americans to the folly of casting their collective lot with big-money-globalists and against their own? against their nation's economy? against their families? against their freedoms? against their futures? against their civil liberties? against their - and our - blood-won civil Constitution?...Unlike so many of us, Europeans are asking such legitimate questions, so is their press.

I consider having him as president to be an insult to our country.

Frank Apisa wrote:

I consider having him as president to be an insult to our country.

Now you know how millions of us felt about Clinton.

I understood way back how millions of you felt about Bill Clinton. I most assuredly did not need to have this pathetic, moronic, incompetent elected and re-elected to understand that!

Frank Apisa wrote:

I understood way back how millions of you felt about Bill Clinton. I most assuredly did not need to have this pathetic, moronic, incompetent elected and re-elected to understand that!

Who are you talking about? I cannot for the life of me figure out who you are referring to as pathetic, moronic and incompetent. Hillary wasn't even in the election.

There are lots of things you cannot figure out, Sturgis.

In fact, if there is anyone in this forum who should be thinking about the implications of the question posed in this thread...you are it!

You are a homosexual who "worships" a god who considers your conduct to be an abomination...and decrees death as a penalty for doing what you do.

And you are an advocate for American conservatism, a discipline populated by people who would not lift a finger in defense of your chosen life style...and who probably wish that the aforementioned decree of your god would become part of the laws of our land.
But...what can one expect for someone who thinks George Bush is not a pathetic, moronic, incompetent....but that Hillary Clinton is?

BBB...the answer to your question is here...right in front of you in the person of Sturgis. All you've gotta do is figure out why such self-hatred exists.

Frank Apisa wrote:

There are lots of things you cannot figure out, Sturgis.

In fact, if there is anyone in this forum who should be thinking about the implications of the question posed in this thread...you are it!

You are a homosexual who "worships" a god who considers your conduct to be an abomination...and decrees death as a penalty for doing what you do.

And you are an advocate for American conservatism, a discipline populated by people who would not lift a finger in defense of your chosen life style...and who probably wish that the aforementioned decree of your god would become part of the laws of our land.
But...what can one expect for someone who thinks George Bush is not a pathetic, moronic, incompetent....but that Hillary Clinton is?

BBB...the answer to your question is here...right in front of you in the person of Sturgis. All you've gotta do is figure out why such self-hatred exists.

You know FrankApisa, self-hatred is a rather strong allegation. Take a closer look at me, I do not hate myself. I have my beliefs and they are mine, you have yours and they are yours. Where in this do you find an appearance of self-hatred? For the record I have a number of Conservative friends who know of my sexuality and who attend the church of their choice on a regular basis and they do not shun me as you would like to believe. These good people have had me and at times various gentlemen friends over for dinner, on weekend outings and even let me watch their children for a few hours while they are enjoying a night on the town. I have been known to sleep in the same room as heterosexual conservative males and oddly I found in the morning I had not been beaten or harmed. Equally I have known some so called liberal minded folk who think my being a homosexual is just fine and dandy provided I don't spend any time alone in the same room as their male family members...even the adult ones. Liberal men that I know who wait until I have departed a public restroom before they will go in. Oh yeah I can see where those Liberals are my salvation . I have made clear in the past that the God who I believe in is not taking my sexuality and declaring it a sin. If you have trouble with that then that is your issue, not mine.

What motivated us? Perhaps the lack of vision, direction or hope from the Democrats. If Kerry had been even remotely saleable you would have had a shot at an election win. Instead, someone was trotted out who actually made Al Gore look good.

Stugis, all well and good that some of your best friends are.....

But would they support your marrying your lover and having all of the rights of a married couple?

BBB

Too many politicians having homosexual children privately say OK to them, but publicly are anti-homosexual for political reasons. Those hypocrites dishonor their children!

BBB