Nobel laureate Paul Krugman on the dichotomy between how Americans vote for Republicans that rail against the same government benefits they are collecting.
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There is a strange redness to America’s safety net. Why do the regions that need the helping hand elect politicians who want to tear it down?
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Krugman has always misunderstood the situation, here he reinforces that view.
So basically what I ended up taking away from this article is that Republicans end up in office through obfuscation and confusion. Can't say I'm surprised, but it is saddening. I've noticed this particular correlation before too, as well as other oddities from the GOP like doing everything possible to protect the "life" of a fetus from conception, but being perfectly willing to sentence adult humans to death.
I wonder if any of the people mentioned in this article would change their minds or parties if they realized they would lose their own benefits if things happened as their party intended.