tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post892266149648983724..comments2024-02-20T19:58:27.733-06:00Comments on Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse: Why are Wisconsinites not voting for what they believe in? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-24253218266069999822014-11-07T08:20:48.396-06:002014-11-07T08:20:48.396-06:00Reagan and Walker put forward a confident positive...Reagan and Walker put forward a confident positive message that identifies evil and they stick to their guns.<br /><br />In a time when Dems talk about good industrial jobs and then vote for free trade agreements and are luke warm on organized labor, people look to leaders who at least do what they say.<br /><br />Add in declining power for white men as the civil rights, women's rights and gay rights movements have finally made some head way and we have the toxic mix that is right wing populism a la Rush, Sykes and Belling.<br /><br />If the economy is good incumbents will be rewarded and if not they won't. Most people don't vote because they feel the system does not work for them because we get lots of high bound rhetoric (Obama/Clinton) and then they deliver fewer decent jobs and declining wages.<br /><br />Tax cutting is a real benefit to people, they think. It's one way that they feel government is responding to their demands.<br /><br />Add in some good old welfare queen racism and your on your way to the White House.Fonscyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04925763892475390452noreply@blogger.com