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To: bentway who wrote (182309)	2/13/2012 6:05:19 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 544130

I think I know what is going on. When I was 19 and ignorant and working in a paper bag factory I hated the kids at UC Berkeley. Of course I had no understanding of them at all. I was jealous. I remember thinking here are 30,000 people and they are all smarter than I. LIke most ghetto kids it took me years to find out my potential. Many of them know they are ignorant, but either think it is because they are incapable of academics, or are not inclined to learn or read e.g. Palin. So all that is left to them is derision. I have many conservative friends who have no health care. I have seen them walk the line of death many times because they cannot afford to go to a doctor e.g. one had serious blood poisoning, one had paralysis of his legs and on and on, yet they make fun of Obama care? But they also do not take an academic approach to learning. And of course they have no idea what is in Obamacare, just that it is something the liberals like. << I have no clue how anybody can support the Republican party in its current incarnation, but something around half the voters in the US do, and we have to live with that somehow. " This totally baffles me as well. How ANYONE can support a party that outright rejects a 10/1 ratio of spending cuts to tax increases (on the wealthy, not themselves) is beyond me. Why working (R)'s support their politicians can only make sense to me if ALL those people watch nothing but Fox "news" and are on the left side of the normal curve of intelligence.