Speaking as someone who is going into organic farming… Organic farming.
I would think doctors would skew liberal because of science, but most doctors I’ve known tend to be Republicans. I know a vet who doesn’t “believe” in evolution.
That explains it!
I know it’s a liberal mantra that conservatives hate science but it’s simply not true for a large number of us. Frankly I find the insinuation insulting.
It’s certainly true for more of you than it is for liberals, though (which is not to say that there isn’t an anti-science contingent on the liberal side).
Maybe so, but way more Republicans than Democrats “hate science.”
Cite?
It depends on the science really. Far more liberals in my experience are anti-vaxers, anti-GMO, pro “alternative” medicine, anti-nuclear power, and so forth. They also fight against economic science quite hevily with their pro-Marxism, anti-free trade, anti-globalism stances.
In comparison these are things that affect your everyday life where as if a conservative doesn’t believe in evolution how does that affect their daily life?
I’d say the fact way more conservatives want to base their lives and government off a sky fairy effectively ends this argument.
I don’t think there is a direct correlation between a belief in a higher being and hating science. Do you have evidence to support the idea that religious people can’t be scientists?
There is a difference between “being religious” and “having your flavor of religiosity be the center of your personality and your worldview.”
I’m going to suggest, with no cite except life, that there are plenty of scientists in the ranks of the former and relatively a lot of anti-science types in the latter.
There are also religious people who are highly educated, both theologically and in other fields. And there are religious people who can read, barely, and choose to avoid the effort wherever possible. That latter group contains zero scientists and a lot of anti-science types.
So I hear a lot of arguing by others in this thread from positions of the excluded middle. Which as most thinking folks know is a bogus position to take on almost any topic.
Certainly there are more liberal anti-vaxers, alternative medicine believers and anti-nuclear types (than conservatives who believe in such things).
Economics isn’t much of a “science,” and most people who oppose free trade and globalism do not do so from an anti-science perspective. They do so because they do not weigh economic growth as heavily as other factors.
Whether or not things are relevant to one’s daily life has no bearing on the issue, but even there you are wrong. Whether or not you believe in evolution certainly has a bearing on your daily life if it means taking your child out of school to avoid it, or voting to rewrite science textbooks to diminish it. It also affects your daily life if you reject science (or more likely, accept non-science) in order to do things like ban same-sex couples from adopting.
It’s because doctors pay taxes.
IME “spewing” is a luxury of the majority. We were all taught by our Moms & Miss Manners not to discuss politics in public.
For most folks it’s only when they think they can safely assume that everybody within earshot thinks the same that they’ll start spewing.
So you’ll hear nothing but conservative spew in Dallas and nothing but liberal spew in Berkeley. And not much spew of any flavor in less polarized places.
I used to live in a county where the Ds didn’t even bother to field candidates for most elective offices. They’d go down 95/5 when they tried. Oddly enough the only spew one heard was R. Likewise the 95% white population assumed everybody within earshot was too. And the 95% evangelical population assumed everybody within earshot was too.
Most of the time they’d be right. But once in awhile it was funny when they weren’t and somebody else wanted to make a scene about it.
In my experience, public-school teacher in most places.
Mitt, is that you?
It might have been Dick Cheney’s daughter.
Don’t most people?
I’ve been an engineer for many years, and in my experience, the vast majority of engineers are quite conservative. I think it’s because engineers have to focus on the world as it is, shun wishful thinking, and embrace reality as they create practical and useful solutions to problems. No starry-eyed dreaming or wishing allowed. I don’t know if living/working as an engineer leads to that attitude, or having that attitude is a prerequisite to becoming an engineer, but either way it seems to explain why most engineers would be conservative.
As for professions with mostly liberals but a few conservatives sneak in, how about Hollywood? It seems that most actors/directors are liberals, with the notable exceptions of action stars (Stallone, Norris, Schwarzenegger, Eastwood, etc.).
Nope - just someone who pays attention. See, here’s the complicated part - Doctors as a group tend to be high income earners. Following so far? Ok great. Lots of other factors can be at play,but let’s take a look at this. Essentially, as income increases, chances of being Republican increases.
Here’s the logic - it’s quite complex - doctors are high income earners as a group and therefore pay high taxes. Those people at higher incomes, they tend to vote for Republicans.