He’s the lesson voters in this state need. He’s the lesson GOP voters nationally — who just watched their party be kidnapped by racists and a Russian sellout — need.
Because they need to learn the consequences of voting based on fear and greed, instead of on the betterment of all people and fairness.
That’s what this is really about.
The people in Alabama didn’t vote for Roy Moore because they believed he’d help them find better jobs or fix their schools or provide them an opportunity to purchase better, more affordable health care, and now they’re surprised to find that he’s nothing like that.
They voted for him because he scared the hell out of them.
He convinced them that their Christianity was under attack, that gay marriage was going to destroy America, that transgender people were going to attack their kids in restrooms, that God was angry and that we’re all going to hell.
That fear of change and of anyone or anything slightly different has ruled the Alabama voting booth since this place was founded. And greed has followed a close second.
The people of this state — generation after generation of people in this state — have been shown the consequences of such ignorance. And yet, time and again, election after election, the voting majority in this state enter voting booths and pick the people who promise to protect Confederate monuments and cut their paltry taxes and put prayer back in schools and force store clerks to say Merry freakin’ Christmas.
And then, when it all inevitably blows up in our faces, and we’re left a steaming pile of national embarrassment by these conmen and charlatans, these same voters have the gall to shake their heads in disgust, throw up their hands and proclaim that Alabama deserves better than this.
But the sad fact is we don’t.
We’re getting exactly what we deserve.
http://www.alreporter.com/2017/11/15/alabama-deserves-roy-moore/
Because they need to learn the consequences of voting based on fear and greed, instead of on the betterment of all people and fairness.
That’s what this is really about.
The people in Alabama didn’t vote for Roy Moore because they believed he’d help them find better jobs or fix their schools or provide them an opportunity to purchase better, more affordable health care, and now they’re surprised to find that he’s nothing like that.
They voted for him because he scared the hell out of them.
He convinced them that their Christianity was under attack, that gay marriage was going to destroy America, that transgender people were going to attack their kids in restrooms, that God was angry and that we’re all going to hell.
That fear of change and of anyone or anything slightly different has ruled the Alabama voting booth since this place was founded. And greed has followed a close second.
The people of this state — generation after generation of people in this state — have been shown the consequences of such ignorance. And yet, time and again, election after election, the voting majority in this state enter voting booths and pick the people who promise to protect Confederate monuments and cut their paltry taxes and put prayer back in schools and force store clerks to say Merry freakin’ Christmas.
And then, when it all inevitably blows up in our faces, and we’re left a steaming pile of national embarrassment by these conmen and charlatans, these same voters have the gall to shake their heads in disgust, throw up their hands and proclaim that Alabama deserves better than this.
But the sad fact is we don’t.
We’re getting exactly what we deserve.
http://www.alreporter.com/2017/11/15/alabama-deserves-roy-moore/
