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[Big_Bird]

Disclaimer: That was not meant to include normal sane people with religious beliefs btw, just the fundamentalist lunatic fringe.

Reading some of their policies, it can be difficult to believe that so many people would vote for the American Republican Party. But then, as a European, they seem extremely right-wing from my perspective. Stuff like banning abortions (with the VP apparently believing this appropriate even for rape victims), and advocating abstinence programmes for teenagers being mainstream platforms is just amazing to me. So I kind of associate that party with mediaeval attitudes to sexual issues, war-mongering and general backwardness.

So if you think this is all bollocks, school me!

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[IncognitoHFX]

Well, I have nothing against people who vote based on economics. I know some people who support the Republicans based solely on economics and not on the social issues.

It's so sad that you can't vote for a party based solely on that anymore. Social issues have become part of the package and most would rather vote on that alone.

While I do think Republican voters are missing a few apples from their trees, I acknowledge that a lot of people vote Right because the left alienates them. It's called the "SUV Right" phenomenon. The left has a history of ignoring the average citizen causing them to swing to the right when the left appears to be too homosexual.

This election, though, I think we're going to have an "SUV Left" phenomenon.

"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"

[Kuros]

Voting on social issues annoys the hell out of me. (Note: I consider some issues to be multifacted, such as health care)

When someone votes primarily on social issues (left, right, or center regardless), it tells me:

a) the person doesn't have the average intellect or the average discipline to engage the issues

b) the person is way too dependent upon the government for solutions to what should be personal issues

[Big_Bird]

[Kuros]

[bangbayed]

The thing Reagan did, and the reason he is so beloved by the right, was that he was able to unite all of those groups together. It explains to a great degree the success of the Republicans in the last twenty years. Also that and Newt Gingrich's Contract with America solidified this unity between libertarians who hate all government 'interference', the religious right and fiscal conservatives. Bush did a lot of damage to that in his eight years, but I have strong doubts about whether this coalition is about to disband.

Reagan was America's Mao.

Just look at the way the right bandies about the term "culture war" and think about its companion term in Mao's China.

[Big_Bird]

Good answer, Kuros.

[Kuros]

[Gopher]

[Big_Bird]

[Gopher]

I was not talking to you, Big_Bird.

I listened to a hardcore feminist/women's studies professor go on and on and on about how we were all doomed because the Republicans were inevitably going to, and very soon at that, reverse Roe vs. Wade in order to kill poor black women (note the class, race, and gender, in this configuration, rather than the usual race, class, and gender) across America.

[Big_Bird]

Gopher, I've heard (a couple of tims in RL) and read (on the web) Americans saying they vote Republican because the democrats are pro-abortion. It goes both ways.

[Gopher]

How is your objection that "it goes both ways" on point to my:

[Big_Bird]