[extropy-chat] No Joy in Mudville

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

I may not have formulated my point well Andrew: I know what you say
here is true.
The difference between the two camps used to be, that Reps wanted a
smaller state and more economic freedom, and the Dems wanted more
state intervention and are prepared to accept less economic freedom
against more social policies.
You had smart and well educated people and good arguments in both
camps and people used to vote on issues and not on ideology.
But these elections were not about the size of the state. As many many
Rep voters said in exit polls, they were about moral values. And they
mentioned specifically God, gay marriage and stem cells.
I am not complaining that you elected a Republican president. There
have been many good Republican presidents. I am complaining that you
elected a president who wants to turn the US into a fundamentalist
theocracy in the purest taliban style.
G.


On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:49:44 -0800, J. Andrew Rogers
<andrew at ceruleansystems.com> wrote:
> The Democrats and the left wing at large and the Europeans (which have
> attrocious media coverage of US politics -- it is more "fair and
> balanced" in Communist Asia) need to come to grips with the fact that
> the majority of Republicans are neither ill-educated, un-worldly, or
> even particularly religious.  Some factions are, but not the major
> portion of the party.  That is nothing more than the liberal Democrats
> trying to make themselves feel better by putting down the other guy and
> not bothering to really study their opponent.
> 
> Most Republicans I know, and I know many having lived in many
> traditionally conservative areas (I even have aunts and uncles who are
> fairly senior GOP officials), are pro-choice, very well travelled and
> worldly, non-religious (many atheists), and as educated as your average
> Democrat.  As long as the Democrats and liberals maintain the fiction
> that Republicans are ignorant hillbillies, religious white trash, and
> country club executives, they will continue to get their clocks cleaned
> in the elections because they do not know their opponent (see: Sun Tzu)