Republicans

The Republican party is really a party of the wealthy. These wealthy Americans own businesses and have multiple homes if not yachts and private jets. Their main source of income is investment returns as opposed to paychecks. They are in the top 1% in terms of wealth. They may own or invest in companies that profit from coal and other pollutants, so the environment and climate change are not their favorite topics. They are also against taxes (for obvious reasons–they are wealthy), against minimum wages (they will have to pay their employees more), and against safety nets that they have no use for, such as social security and affordable health care.

Now you may think, if only 1% of Americans are true Republicans then how can they possibly win elections? Well they came up with an ingenious solution: rope in people who can't think for themselves, such as the rural poor. Bamboozle them into aligning with the rich by offering them some red meat: guns and religion. The rural poor are not educated, and are not capable of deep analysis. As long as they get their guns and get to incorporate their religious beliefs into the laws of the land, they will let the rich get away with complicated things that they don't even understand, let alone care about. So the Republican politicians go on and on about the second amendment and the ten commandments and protecting the unborn and so on while letting the wealthy get away with not paying their fair share of taxes, exporting jobs, rolling back consumer protections, banning unions, prohibiting class actions, mandating arbitration and so on.

My advice to "Republicans" who are not wealthy–stop being sheep. Vote in your interest, not in the interest of the wealthy. Vote Democratic.