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Originally posted by shergald
I switched my party yesterday and will be voting for Kerry.
Why? As a first reason, I am not a racist and didn't realize I was one as a Republican. When the Republicans took over the remnants of Jim Crow and were joined by the equally racist NRA and religious Right, the party came out of the doldrums. No average working man wanted to support the rich man's party before that. No Republican president after Carter did not go to Jim Jones University to pledge their souls to continuing Jim Crow, and they made it possible to be Republican and racist at the same time through denial and tokens. In the meantime, the racist following became so strong, it was possible for the Republicans to take their socialist Darwinism and Calvinism out of the closet, starting with Reagan. The rich are rich because they are Godly; the poor suffer because they are in cahoots with the Devil. The rich therefore deserve all that the government can give them, all the government they can buy, because they earned it and more. My second reason for voting for Kerry: I am not going to continue being a stupid fool supporting policies that favor racism and the rich when I am neither one of these. Kerry, by the way, intends to roll back the Bush taxcuts to the rich and close the 400 billion tax loop holes used by corporations and the wealthy every year to avoid paying taxes.
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