Conservative Hypocrisy and Ignorance - Very Poor, lives off Gov't money, watches FOX - Votes GOP

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Two common traits that I encounter when dealing with conservatives are hypocrisy and general misinformation about the world around them.  Watch Fox News for a few hours and you’ll see why many of them are this way.  When almost all of the information these people get comes from a blatant propaganda machine for one of the nation’s largest political parties, it’s not surprising that the “facts” they believe often don’t coincide with reality. After all, it’s indisputable that the more education someone has, the less likely they are to be a Republican.  That stat alone speaks volumes. An article I ran across on Yahoo! News was perfect example of what’s wrong with conservative voters and what I constantly encounter when I deal with these people.  The article featured Jim Feltner, an impoverished Kentucky resident who lives off disability checks and $105 a month in food stamps. Now you would think being that one of President Obama’s main focuses in combating income inequality that Feltner would be a fan of the president.  But he’s not. “I will vote for anybody against Obama.  I don’t care who runs against him, I’ll vote for him. I don’t care if it’s a Democrat, a Republican, an Indian, a Pakistani, even a Frenchman!” said Feltner. He blames Obama’s stance against coal as one of the primary reasons for his opposition.  You see, a large part of Kentucky’s economy is based on coal. “Here’s what he said about the coal business: ‘go ahead, build your coal-fired energy plants, we will shut them down,'” Feltner alleged.  “Is that something for a president to say?  He’s got a problem with the poor people.” I’m not quite sure how President Obama being concerned about the health of our planet means he has a problem with poor people.  While I sympathize with people who’ve lost their jobs because we’re trying to move away from coal and more towards greener methods of energy, I just can’t endorse this belief that we should continue to destroy the only planet we have simply because some jobs might be lost.  Because if you really want to see a real “job killer,” let’s see how life is like on this planet when it’s not suitable for humans to live on it any longer. Another resident of Kentucky, Eric Miller, also spoke out against President Obama.

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