Why Right Wing Voters Tend To Be More Stupid?
I could have also used the terms selfish, greedy, disinterested and trapped in the past. Look around you at the current crop of right wing governments in the United States and Israel as illustrations of this. The MAGA supporters are, on the whole, focused on what they can get from a Trump administration and turning the clock back to a less integrated multiracial America. You do not get the sense that these folk are interested in what is good for all Americans, no matter their skin colour, gender or sexual preference. This is why right wing voters tend to be more stupid.
Dumb Partisanship & Right Wing Voters
Extreme partisanship only ever produces bad outcomes in the end. This is because it invariably produces a backlash. Indeed, some Americans say that Donald Trump is a backlash against Obama. Not that President Obama did anything particularly partisan himself during his 2 terms in office. No, it was the very fact that someone of his skin colour in racist America could achieve top spot, which had the right wing idealogues working overtime to stir up hatred via lies and disinformation. Yes, the GOP fought damned hard against Obamacare – the idea of poor folk receiving assistance with health insurance was anathema to their exploitative instincts. Why right wing voters tend to be more stupid.
The Right Wing Government In Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel is a Far Right leader, who has overseen the devastation of Gaza and the murder of more than 70, 000 noncombatant Palestinians. Most of these were children. The IDF has blown up hospitals, killed doctors, aid workers and journalists in their hundreds. The United Nations has called it a genocide. The justification for this was the kidnapping and murder of some 1200 Israelis by Hamas. Overkill is a term used to describe such disproportionate actions taken in response to the original crime. However, in reality this conflict has been going ever since Palestine was carved up by the British colonial powers and handed over to Zionists intent on creating a Jewish homeland. The Nakba resulted with Palestinians being dispossessed of their homelands in favour of a recently arrived Jewish refugee population. The Palestinians were left wondering why they had to pay the price for Nazi war crimes committed in Europe prior to and during WW2. Guilty white folk in the West, who had largely ignored the Holocaust whilst it was happening, were happy to see Arabs pay the price for their indifference to crimes against humanity at the time and since.
Israel & The Hamas Attack On October 7
There have been questions asked about October 7th, 2023, and how the IDF and Mossad were able to miss this mass attack on Israeli soil. The reputation of these security forces are for hypervigilance and it seems damned strange that it occurred as it did.
“An intelligence failure is like a plane crash: it is never just one thing that goes wrong, it is instead a series of things that add up to a disaster. Hamas pulled off a complex, multifront assault on October 7—the kind of coordinated attack that takes months to plan and execute. Moreover, tens if not hundreds of Hamas militants were involved in the combination air, land, sea, and rocket assault, suggesting that the circle of knowledge was extensive. “
“The continuing recriminations are part of a bitter broader argument over who to blame for the biggest security failure in Israel since the foundation of the country in 1948. Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, has avoided accepting responsibility, though several senior military and intelligence officials have resigned or admitted their errors.”
Netanyahu Is A Dead Man Fighting
Benjamin Netanyahu has been on the attack ever since, he knows that if he stops or is politically defeated he will most probably go to gaol on corruption and other charges. He is a dead man fighting. You can see this in his hyper-aggressiveness directed here, there and everywhere. On the offensive against the Labor Prime Minister in Australia, Anthony Albanese. Netanyahu invested heavily in the defeated and departed Peter Dutton, a right wing warrior downunder, who paid the price, electorally, for his divisiveness and association with the Trump camp at the last federal election. The Far Right are running a witch hunt, which seeks to label all support for Palestine and Palestinian independence as ‘antisemitic’.
The Antisemitic Witch Hunt
Those on the Right have come up with something, Project Esther, designed by Christian Zionists. This seeks to politically tar and feather all those who oppose Israels right to bomb and kill whoever they like in the Middle East under the cover of defending against ‘antisemitism’. This cynical appropriation and misuse of a historically sensitive term used to describe prejudicial behaviour on the grounds of Jewish religious identity is all part of the right wing campaign to claim victimhood status wherever possible. The playbook suggests that this will confuse and disempower the virtuousness, previously owned by those on the Left. In Australia and the UK, those protesting the killings by the IDF are being prosecuted if they wave a Hamas flag at public demonstrations. Zionist influencers in governments, civil service and legal spheres are working overtime on stifling protest against the genocide committed by Israel in Gaza. However, you cannot murder more than 70, 000 human beings and raise an entire city and just get away with it. Although, that is exactly what these right wing Zionists are attempting to do. The Murdoch owned press is doing its best to facilitate this pro-Israel smokescreen.
Right Wing Voters & Identity Politics
Why right wing voters tend to be more stupid? Identity politics, often, sees them voting against their own economic interests. Those on the Right, invariably represent the big end of town, always have and always will. Working class people have voted for President Donald Trump, despite his lies and criminality, even though he grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. Stupid right wing voters often seek to blame their woes on immigrants, it has been going on for millennia. The blame game and punching down on weaker targets. These right wing folk rarely have the gumption or the guts to take on the wealthy and powerful. They are little people content to be bossed around by those they perceive to bigger and better. They will wrap themselves in the national flag and march down public throughfares to protest against immigration but are too spineless to take on the big end of town. Same old story has been going forever.
ICE has just murdered an unarmed mother of 3 in Minneapolis. 2200 masked and heavily armed ICE agents are in that city causing problems unnecessarily. This use of a paramilitary force on the streets of American cities is fascist strategy straight out of the Nazi Germany playbook.
Right Wing Media Lies Incessantly To Its Viewers
If you believe the crap fed to you on Fox News or Sky News Australia you are living in that shallow bubble. If you reckon it is OK for Israel to murder Palestinians indiscriminately and destroy an entire city, you are stupid. No one has the right to do so. Trump and Netanyahu and Putin represent the primacy of brute force. If you really want to live in a world ruled under the aegis of caveman brutality, you are a bigger fool than most. Eventually, Trump and Netanyahu will get their just desserts. What goes around, comes around. There will be a huge swing to progressiveness as backlash to the destruction and murder brought by these right wing despots. The more crimes these men commit the worse it will be for them in the end. America will have learned that you cannot go easy on people like Trump. He should have been gaoled during Biden’s presidency but the Democrats were too pissweak. They won’t make the same mistake again.
Why Shareholder Primacy Is Ripping The Rest Of Us Off?
“If you were asked who sits atop the business/economic pyramid, who would you nominate? If you answered shareholders you would be correct. These investors are the owners of companies and businesses. CEOs and boards do everything in their power to increase the value of their companies. Often enriching themselves in the process, of course, via stock buybacks and such like. Consumers and company employees sit well down on the hierarchical ladder of importance these days. Keeping prices high and wages low are part and parcel of increasing the value of company stock. This economic greed is destroying our lives, as it is completely out of balance.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of What Price Life?; America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump; and other titles. NOW AVAILABLE AT APPLE BOOKS & GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS. Google Play Books AUDIOBOOK
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