[ExI] What Makes People Vote Republican

[Russell Rukin]

Sure but to continue with the over simplification in the US I get the 
impression that.

Liberal = bed wetting appeaser
Socialist = communist

When I hear republicans use those tags they blatantly or in a more 
subtle form try to make those links.

I agree with THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/opinion/14friedman.html?ex=1379044800&en=c3c37388fe4618aa&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg 


Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country 
on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather 
than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? As I 
have argued before, it reminds me of someone who, on the eve of the I.T. 
revolution — on the eve of PCs and the Internet — is pounding the table 
for America to make more I.B.M. typewriters and carbon paper. 
“Typewriters, baby, typewriters.”

Forgetting completely 'bed wetting liberal green issues' we as 
technoprogressives surely want, 'need' advanced technologies to 
flourish? I see more Nano technology in solar, hydrogen and new battery 
technology than I do in revamping 19th century oil based technology...


Russell R


Natasha Vita-More wrote:
> Well, sure, but that is not a equitable comparision.  It is impracticale to
> loosely compare any country's system to the systems of other countries
> because the processes have deep history in the building of policies, the
> relationship of society to these politices, and the meaning of the terms
> terms used to express them.
>
> Natasha Vita-More
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Russell Rukin
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] What Makes People Vote Republican
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> Ha, like the US has any electable party that would implement socialist
> policies! The democrats would be considered right wing in most European
> countries...
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> Russell R
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