[LanceH]

"unwittingly"

On a scale of one to ten, how condescending do you think this is?

At some point the left needs to start treating people as people instead of pawns to be shuffled around. Combine this with the "with us or against us" mentality, and they generate their own opposition.

[klmadfejno]

About as condescending as someone deserves if they're pro Affordable Care Act, but anti-Obamacare. The average voter, on both sides, doesn't understand issues at a basic level, let alone hold a rational perspective of the nuances of their outcomes. Most issues, unlike the obamacare/aca juxtaposition, have a way to justify taking either side of the issue from a conservative or liberal framework. That doesn't mean constituents on either side are thinking about it that way.

Saying someone is voting against their own stated interests isn't likely to be persuasive to them, but it doesn't make it factually false. Most people don't really know what their political interests are anyway and just react to strawmen.