Logic has nothing to do with it--what the Left doesn't get

I keep hearing, from other Lefties, that it befuddles them that so many people here in the United States continue to vote Republican, and, therefore, against their own interests. They present arguments about how trickle-down economics doesn't work, how cutting the social safety nets is a bad idea, and how taxes on the wealthiest people need to be increased and loopholes closed.

All to no avail. There's a reason for that.

If you talk to these neo-Conservatives you'll find the overwhelming majority of them are Evangelical Christians. Back when Ronald Regan ran he reached out to that particular demographic, promising them that they would have a strong voice in his government. These people started hearing in their Sunday morning sermons about how they needed to vote Republican. The GOP became the GOD party in their minds.

Forget that Regan pretty much ignored these people once he was elected. To these people, that doesn't matter. All they hear is "Vote Republican." So, that's what they do. These people do what they're told and they aren't going to spend much time thinking about it.

You have to have that mindset or you wouldn't be a Conservative Christian in the first place.

So, that's the problem. You can lay out your position, logically, giving real-world examples that anybody would understand. Hell, they may even agree with you.

But they'll still vote Republican. Doing otherwise is now inconceivable.

Fortunately, most of this crowd is getting old and dying off. Younger people are growing up with the Internet and finding out that there is a big world out there--they're making friends with gay people, people of other or no faith, people of other nationalities, and discovering that they are, in fact, people, just like them. They're seeing the faces of the people who are harmed by cuts to Food Stamps, to other programs designed to benefit the less fortunate. It becomes harder, then, to support more cuts, and to support the politicians who keep trying to implement them.

In the meantime, though, we still have to put up with the backwards, racist, Christian-centric idiots who are just going to vote Republican no matter what. Hopefully it won't be much longer.

That's why I don't argue. When it comes to religion, arguments are pointless.