Posted on 09/09/2008 9:26:33 AM PDT by ventanax5
Love of God and Country, self reliance, honor, integrity... and other people’s hands in your pocket.
Why do I vote Republican?
I’m a bitter church goer who is clinging to my guns.
Very well said.
“What makes people vote Republican?”
Like film critic Pauline Kael, the author probably doesn’t even _know_ any Republicans... :)
- John
Well ... I could have saved Mr Haidt a lot of time: in general, dummycrats see the world as they wish it was, or as they would like to make it be; Republicans see the world as it is. Fairy tales can be nice, but nothing to base your life on.
To keep Communists from taking over America.
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN?
Liberals.
bitterly clinging in Texas
LOL....I think Obama is taking care of that....although it's looking like a slow death.
Totalitarian: - Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed.
“A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).
Easy, people are conservative and will vote for a conservative Republican because they realized the Democrats do not know anything about how life really works. For example, we can spend our money better than Washington can. Social programs create problems, and taxes is legalized theft.
Easy, people are conservative and will vote for a conservative Republican because they realized the Democrats do not know anything about how life really works. For example, we can spend our money better than Washington can. Social programs create problems, and taxes are legalized theft.
“Republicans see the world as it is. Fairy tales can be nice, but nothing to base your life on.”
Correct. We also understand that stealing Bill Gates’ billions & giving them away won’t help the receivers. You don’t respect what you don’t earn. Hence all the HUD Housing that has been or ought to be torn down because it was trashed by those ‘poor’ folks it was given to.
Why on Earth would any labor union member (for example) support a Democrat? So their job can be destroyed due to ridiculous environmental regulations? So they can have their job taken by an illegal alien? So they can have their wages depressed by an influx of workers from Mexico?
Smaller government and fiscal responsibility. Man, I crack myself up.
social programs (ie: welfare, abortion, affirmative action, etc) are the bread and butter for democrats. realizing that if they ever get someone into a social program, the odds are very good that same person will likely vote democrat most of their life.
on top of that, the democrats also bank on free sex, sexual liaisons, homosexuality, drug use, or crime... those behaviors that destroy the unity of the family.. realizing that if they appeal to the baser emotions in people and get them to give into them, they would forever get voters
likewise, the republicans realize that they would lose a voter if the voter ends up needing a social program or goes down certain life paths
therefore, the democrats have a vested interest to see that people end up in social programs or in some life situation that would put people in peril and require assistance. democrats (via their surrogates in the media) do not promote behavior that leads to a healthy, stable, secure life. if they did, they would lose voters.
thus, people that do republican are trying to help the country
A not-bad Edge comment on this article:
MICHAEL SHERMER
Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American; Author, Why Darwin Matters; and How We Believe
The Conscious of the Conservative
Two cheers for Jonathan Haidt’s essay. At long last a liberal academic social scientist has recognized (and had the courage to put into print) the inherent bias built into the study of political behavior—that because Democrats are so indisputably right and Republicans so unquestionably wrong, conservatism must be a mental disease, a flaw in the brain, a personality disorder that leads to cognitive malfunctioning. Thus, Haidt is mostly right when he asks us to move beyond such “diagnoses” and remember “the second rule of moral psychology is that morality is not just about how we treat each other (as most liberals think); it is also about binding groups together, supporting essential institutions, and living in a sanctified and noble way. When Republicans say that Democrats ‘just don’t get it,’ this is the ‘it’ to which they refer.”
I allocate two (instead of three) cheers for Haidt’s commentary because I think he does not go far enough. The liberal bias in academia is so entrenched that it becomes the political water through which the liberal fish swim—they don’t even notice it. Even the question “What makes people vote Republican?” hints at something amiss in the mind of the conservative, along the lines of “Why do people believe weird things?” As Haidt notes, the standard liberal line is that people vote Republican because they are “cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death.” A typical example of this characterization can be found in a famous 2003 paper published in the prestigious journal Psychological Bulletin by the New York University social psychologist John Jost and his colleagues, entitled “Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition,” in which they argue that conservatives suffer from “uncertainty avoidance,” “need for order, structure, closure,” and “dogmatism, intolerance of ambiguity,” all of which leads to “resistance to change” and “endorsement of inequality.”
[more at link]
http://www.edge.org/discourse/vote_morality.html
It is all “collectivst rights” for society against the individual.
There is no right to free speech but a collective right to fairness doctrine UNDER free speech.
There is no right to a jury trial but a collective right to have society determine trials via a jury.
The democrat party is not an assembly of individuals toward a common goal, it is an assembly of collective disperate interests seeking a “collective of power” as a means of power sharing.
(ie trent lott power sharing BS)
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