Republican Women: Transgendered Men?

I like my chiropractor. He's a nice guy, and pretty smart. Witty. Likes red wine and loves his dogs. But for the life of me, I cannot see why he's voting Republican because he considers his practice a small business. Perhaps he needs to have a few things explained, such as:

• Since Daddy Bush, the Republicans have started wars, leaving the Democrats to clean up the mess and pay the bills. (I could go back farther, but I think that's sufficient in the current crisis.)
• To finance those wars, among other things, the Republicans cut services, such as education--particularly the humanizing subjects such as art, music, civics--stuff they, in their tunnel-vision march toward self-aggrandizement, don't notice. They also cut other programs, however, such as funds for environmental projects and assistance to nations that could be allies.
• When large corporations amass more power and more money, as has been abundantly true throughout the Bush administrations, they don't share it with people. They pay their own executives 1,700 times as much as a British nurse, a figure I recently read in a respectable--that is, mainstream--publication. If their much-touted trickle-down theory is supposed to work on that basis, look at it this way:

1. They pay an illegal worker a salary below minimum wage to clean the house. She gets sick and is rushed to the emergency room, where our tax dollars (as much as 27.5 percent of middle-class wages and less than one-half of one percent for her employer) pay for her inadequate care. Inadequate because, as a charity case, she doesn't exactly get Dr. HarvardMed on her case.
   
2. They buy things, but they don't pay as much as you and I do. Why? First, they probably pay cash and avoid interest on the charge card or loan. Second, since they pay cash, they can negotiate a much better price. So the trickle is cut down to a drip.
3. They invest, in such things as companies that are bolstered by subprime loans. A generation ago, it was savings & loans. Either way, guess who pays for it? Middle America, small businesses. Me, and my chiropractor.
4. They are also big enough to crush competition, so even if Dr. Chiro becomes the best-loved bonecracker in U.S. history, if he runs afoul of one of their sacred cows (and understand this: chiropractors are not beloved of the American Medical Association, so he's treading thin ice there), they'll simply crush him.

Republicans do not play well with others and they have never learned to share. The only reason they get away with their ignorant, selfish behavior is that Democrats and others who may actually acknowledge their human condition have been raised to play well with others and to share. Often, those two traits are so thoroughly ingrained that we cannot cast them aside long enough to treat the Republican cadre as it deserves to be treated, with the same lack of compassion, respect and generosity with which they treat others. And if you want to define "others" as a Republican might define them, I believe you would need a very narrow definition, extending no farther than the reach of one arm, and less if the Republican in question--whoever he* is--had to bend that arm to hug the ill-gotten gains more closely to their breast.

* I use the term he because it is inconceivable to me that any woman could possibly support the common (and I use that term advisedly) platform of Republicans. Even if a woman is anti-choice, presuming to force her beliefs on others seems to me to be at odds with womanhood, by nature an inclusive state of being. In my opinion, a female Republican might as well go and get transgendered; her brain already has.