Christians/conservatives in America do, in fact, go around physically terrorizing gay people and have for some time. Their goal is, in a sense, far more insidious than the goal of Southerners towards blacks (note: this is not a “who has suffered more” statement as those are stupid and a tactic for turning minorities against each other used by Republicans) in that Christians don’t just want to make gays second-class citizens, they want to annihilate the very idea that they can or ever did exist. Perhaps a better analogy would have been a Jew joining the Nazi Party? You’re not going to get away from the reality about the monomaniacal obsession with destroying sexual minorities that has become the guiding light of the conservative movement in America by playing the “I’m so offended on behalf of black people” card.
What strikes me is how the Republican-Democratic divide pervades so many unrelated issues.
[ul][li] CISPA is the plan for the government to invade privacy and share citizens’ personal secrets with Big Business.[/li][li] NDAA is the $660,000,000,000.00 military budget, controversial because it allows even U.S. citizens to be detained indefinitely if suspected of terrorist involvement.[/li][li] PPACA is Obamacare, a watered-down version of GOP proposals from last century that are “too Socialistic” for today’s GOP.[/li][li] Hunger Free Kids is a measure to improve nutrition of schoolchildren. (I’m not sure why GOP opposed it. Fear that immigrant children might become less hungry?)[/li][li] DADT Repeal allows gays and lesbians to serve in the military.[/li][/ul]
Why is it that Congressmen opposed to children’s nutrition also oppose gays and support invasion of privacy? I don’t know, but it does seem strange that Republicans take the Evil side on almost every issue.
If Americans read and understood the table gamerunknown just posted, I don’t think GOP would win elections.
And what explains how I am treated here?
Lakoff proposes a mechanism here. Two other ways of looking at it: just world hypothesis (good things happen to good people, bad thing happen to bad people) or the fundamental attribution error (where I and the ingroup succeed, it’s due to our disposition, where we fail, it’s due to the situation).
Other proposals have been based on disgust, but I don’t see how a coherent strand could cause a higher propensity to be disgusted and a lack of desire to appropriate taxes to deal with malnutrition. Then there’s the property rights as sovereign approach, in which case CISPA is necessary to prevent the abuses of another’s intellectual property and taking people’s taxes to feed hungry children is immoral (possible Social Darwinist underpinning or “voluntarist” canard). I can’t link property rights to DADT repeal, but the anarcho-capitalist (or even the pro-business in the Reagan sense/corporatist/militarist) branch of the Republican party isn’t sufficient to win elections alone, so they have to appeal to the economically ambivalent social Conservatives. To be fair, if I took a freshwater approach, a flat tax and zero social spending would make some sense to me, since wealth would represent value and not the valorisation of another’s labour / greater capacity to extract surplus labour.
It is easy to interview stupid representatives of a point of view and present them as typical representatives of that point of view.
According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, “Republicans fare substantially better than Democrats on several questions in the survey, as is typically the case in surveys about political knowledge.”
You poor dear! Need a moment? Hanky?
The fact that Democrats have pockets of ignorance or malice of their own in particular areas doesn’t change the fact that a squawking piece of white trash who thinks the most important issue in America is putting homosexuals in an electrified concentration camp is, in fact, perfectly representative of the average Republican’s priorities. “Same to you” is not a defense to evil.
Cite?
IMNSHO, getting in bed with the religious right was the biggest mistake the Republican Party has made in my lifetime. The religious whackjobs have taken the party over, 'cuz Gawd is on their side and all that shit.
Would you be willing to step up as the intelligent, well spoken representative of the people who would put all them Gheys in concentration camps for us, then ?
The fact that, when a Republican is about to lose an election, he need only start robo-calls insinuating his opponent doesn’t want to smash gays to guarantee victory. That’s how Bush secured Ohio in 2004, and that’s why we have these state constitutional amendments about marriage now–putting them on the ballot brings out the Republican voters in droves when all other issues have failed to motivate them.
She seems so pissed at the end… “Sure. Yeah. Thank you so much.”
Did you read that survey? I would have thought “political knowledge” would have to do with different forms of government, etc., but what they define as “political knowledge” was mostly about partisan differences on hot button issues.
About all the survey determined was whether more people watched Fox News or MSNBC, the two networks whose mission is to emphasize partisan differences on issues (although IMO, the equivalence ends there).
Shame on you Anderson Cooper, pick’n on the mentally retarded like that.
Justifiably so. Cooper was clearly being patronizing when he pretended to think that putting gays behind electrified fences was a legitimate position worth serious discussion. More proof that the press is in the bag for liberals.
My personal theory is that the Citizens United decision has allowed the electric fence lobby to take the gloves off and donate massively to the anti-gay and anti-Mexican movements.
You mean by quoting her pastor, the one whose position she supports?
Your cite, even if true, fails to support your claim. Do you see why?
No. The reality is that when a Republican in a swing state campaigns on any of the other so-called Republican issues—tax cuts, abortion, spending reform, defense–he usually polls behind, but as soon as he starts waving the straight supremacy flag, people who didn’t give a flying fuck about any of the other stuff suddenly wriggle out from under the stove to put him over the top. That is support for my proposition that Republicans only care about that one thing.
Because there are a lot more of her than we like to admit?
You really think they could find a smarter one on this POV if they tried? I’ve never seen such a one, in the mainstream media or anywhere else, including the Dope.