When it comes to women who would vote against their better interests by voting for Romney, besides his wife and kids, there are only a couple of groups I can think of that would do this. First - The religious right and the use of the 3 ( I's ) Indoctrinate, Isolate, Intimidate as well as a few other little tricks of the trade.
For a woman raised in an extreme religious environment, It starts when they are just children and highly impressionable and then continues through adolescence and into young adulthood by suppressing and controlling virtually every aspect of their lives; what they read, watch, where they go, who they are friends with and what they do. This type of treatment is not unlike how the Taliban control their women. In my opinion, it shows a deep hatred of women and a great fear of them. If you want to control a group or a society, you start by controlling the women. Many extreme religious society's view women as property, as objects that can be bartered with and used like slave labor. They see women as lesser beings and in such, they are treated like cattle.
The extreme religious use the 3 I's ; Indoctrination, Isolation and Intimidation. Most of these women have been denied access to any real form of education, just have a gander at the rising number of religious based home schools here in the US. They do this so their children will not be exposed to differing views, ideas and facts like; evolution, climate change, human sexuality, psychology and the many other sciences that would threaten their belief systems and world view. Of course many of them site things like violence and quality of education, but I feel that is just code for the real reasons. Of course if we invested in Public education like we should, we would have a very well educated generation. But, instead of investing in all of our children, the right wing wants to de-fund or under fund public education and they have attempted to villianize public school teachers. They cut their budgets, tell them to do more with less, deal with exploding class sizes, impose hiring freezes and pay cuts and force many teachers to teach to the test so they can get the little funding they are offerd.
These religious girls/women never get the opportunity to be exposed to anything different from cradle to grave. Their community is the church where they are indoctrinated, many are schooled at home where they are isolated, and if they show even the smallest amount of curiosity or question authority, they are intimidated, punished and shunned severely. They are made dependent and ignorant, taught to hate themselves and especially to hate anyone or anything that differs from their faith based beliefs. It's a herculean effort in cognitive dissonance and it's a shrinking population.
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The second and third group -The low information voters and the greedy voter. It boggles the mind, and I hate to say this but some folks are just plain ignorant and don't take the time to delve past a person's looks and whatever junk and lies come spewing from their lips they accept as truth. A great example of the kind of women that would go for Romney are women like; Lindsay LoHan,Teen Mom 2 star Leah Messer, 90's Clueless Star Stacey Dash What do these women all have in common besides endorsing a man that would restrict their reproductive rights, have them pay more for insurance but get paid less for their work and overall, reverse the progress we've made over the past four years? They are all low information voters and these women also make above $250,000. They all have a history of making bad choices or lack good judgement. But it's clear to me that these women haven't learned or don't understand the republican platform. Perhaps all they see is the tax cut for the wealthy, or a chance to gain some more notoriety or maybe they think that just because Romney was a business man at Bain Capital he can magically fix the economy, Or he did a good job as a Governor. Whatever the reason they endorse this man, it's pretty obvious that they haven't done their homework.
Things have gotten really nasty out there. Just the other day I was verbally assaulted at a sidewalk cafe. A complete stranger called me a "bitch" and "whore wearing a red shirt" over and over, yelling at the top of her lungs. This went on for about 5 minutes while I was having lunch. What had I done to this woman? I didn't know her and I had said nothing to her or even looked at her until she verbally attacked me on the sidewalk. My crime, I'm guessing, is I was wearing an "Obama 2012" pin, "I just voted" sticker and a "Stop the War on Women" Pin.
Yes I was wearing a long sleeve red shirt and blue jeans. Definitely nothing that would remotely be considered revealing, we are living in the year 2012 are we not? This is not the Victorian age or the Scarlet Letter. I am fit and I was a model when I was younger. But I don't think that had anything to do with this crazy woman's abusive behavior. I think she verbally attacked me for voting for Obama, for proudly wearing my pins.
we are seeing an extinction explosion. Which is a psychological term for when a subject (person or animal) performs an action that no longer gives the desired reward/response and the subject, in desperation, preforms the action over and over with escalating desperation until the action or behavior stops or becomes extinct. We are witnessing an extinction explosion now with the extreme right. They are pouring on the crazy and becoming ever more emboldened and desperate. Attempting to shout down truth with lies, engaging in voter suppression and voter fraud, using intimidation tactics and attacking the left with growing ferocity and hatred.