Why vote against your interests?

That's what the left likes to throw out there at you if you're a white working man.

I am a white working man.  But the Democrats don't like me much as far as I can tell.  But, neither do the Republicans.

The Dems don't like us because we are the wrong color.  The 'pubs don't like us because... well, I can't quite figure that one out.  Why do you want to swamp our culture with people not of this culture?  This makes no sense.  The Dems call the 'pubs racist, but if they are, they sure keep it a big secret.  As for me, I got nothing against equal rights, but it looks like some folks are more equal than others.  Right now, in this country, I figure I'm definitely not in favor when it comes to our political class.

The Dems might accuse me of being racist, but why did they vote for Obama if it is anything other than race?  I can recall that these people were saying that we should be proud that a black man is in the White House.  What difference does his color make if he's the best guy for the job?  Why be proud just because he's black?  If that isn't about race, then what the hell was it about?

So they tell me I'm not voting for my interests when they don't like me very much from what I can observe.

That's their argument.  It doesn't look like much of one from where I'm standing.

Actually, their real argument is that they should have more power and with that power, they'll take care of you.  You mean like they took care of MF Global's customers who got ripped off?  When they say that they'll take care of you, you really don't know quite what that could mean down the road.  Sometimes, it can get a whole new meaning.  They'll sic the government agencies on you if you don't tow their party line.

Most people in the polls that I've seen would rather that there be economic growth.  You see, if they would do just that, they'd be helping the average man.  But these are the guys who believe in Limited Growth.  They may try to run away from that phrase, and pretend to be for growth, but Limited Growth is what they must truly believe in their heart of hearts.  Otherwise, you don't place your bets on windmills and solar panels.  Sorry to have to beat that drum again, but if you have to pay more for energy, that's not good for economic growth.  The only way to get energy prices down is to make more available.  It also means being the low cost producer.  For that will bring market share and that means jobs.  When you are not the low cost producer, it means the jobs go elsewhere.

Sometimes elsewhere means to places that don't like us very much.

The lowest costs for energy is going to be nuclear.  The left would have you believe otherwise, but that's IS the way it is.  It cannot be otherwise.  It's in the math and in the physics and in the chemistry.

If the left was really serious about global warming and growing the economy, they'd be pushing nuclear energy.  But that's not what they're doing.  Instead, they are doing the exact opposite.  They're pushing us in the direction of our grandfathers.  Solar and wind energy has been around for as long as mankind has been.  Going back to that is not going "forward", but backward at least a hundred years.

As far as the so-called right is doing, they are not hardly any different.  If the left objects, they'll just slink back into the background and hide like they always do.

In the end, the working man has no friends in either party.  We need a new deal.  Not the 30's kind, but a new kind of deal.  This one's no good.