Don't you hate it when you come across a person so ignorant as to hate all republicans just because they are republicans? In this case, it's a good friend of mine. The case came up and he stated that he would never vote for a republican. I asked him why and he said "Because I'm a democrat." is this what we want with our country? It's not like just because someone labels themselves a certain party they agree with everything, and that you can't ever vote for them, it's how you think things should be. God DAMN! Discuss.
This person sounds like [-]me three years ago[/-] a fucking parrot. He can't even defend his arguments or why he supposed will never vote conservative. And I've no doubt there are just as many brainless busheep for the other side. I'm more scared that this guy doesn't know why he thinks that way, or take the time to truly analyze anything for himself.
I consider this variety of partisan akin to a drunken sports fan. Everything his team does is right and everything the opposing team does is wrong. He has no need to justify his undying loyalty, he's all about donning the rainbow wig, the giant foam hand and drinking the 40 proof Kool-Ade with his like minded cohorts. GO DONKEYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're right, there are just as many brainless busheep out there. Ignorant people abound in this country. The best we can do is try to help them - if that doesn't work, then we clobber them with fact to make them look foolish in front of friends, coworkers and ... innocent by standers.
I hate it when people romanticize the political system and fail to acknowledge its realities. The reality is that we live in an era of ideological sorting between the major parties that is unprecedented in American history. The rightmost Democratic politicians we have are, with very few exceptions usually related to departures on specific issues, distinctly to the left of the leftmost Republican politicians we have. The single most reliable piece of information a voter has to judge how a person will vote as a legislator is party affiliation. The issue, however, is even more clear-cut than that. The one vote of your legislator you know with certainty is that legislator's vote for leadership in his legislative body, a vote that correlates so near to 100% with party affiliation that absolute correlation might as well be assumed. It's the legislative leaders who set the agenda and decide what votes happen, and whatever historically small ideological overlap there is between Democratic and Republican politicians completely vanishes among the leadership. When you choose between a Democrat and a Republican in a House election, the choice between Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner has vastly more practical significance than the choice between the candidates on your ballot, and the gulf between those two is enormous. If you don't vote third party and you don't choose between the Republicans and Democrats on your Congressional ballot on the basis of party identification then, unless you're the extremely rare person who really is squarely in the middle of the politicians' political spectrum and is genuinely indifferent between Pelosi and Boehner, you're casting an ignorant vote. That doesn't, of course, mean that you should hate all members of the opposition major party, but if you have distinct enough leanings to even think about calling yourself a Democrat or a Republican you should never vote for the opposition party in a legislative election.
Yah. Freind of mine used to do stupid-republican jokes. Or made cracks like "the only thing I hate more than a cop is a republican." Drove me crazy. Remember Dukakis and that ridiculous tank ride with the funny helmet? I was talking with yet another liberal friend about that and he said "Yeah, that was a mistake, he looked pretty stupid. But I have to vote for him anyway, because he's the democrat." Of course, all that said, I have yet to vote for a democrat. It's not because I'm a "loyal" republican or anything, it's just that I can't vote for anyone who wants to take my guns away.
I have an aunt who will never step foot in Texas because John F. Kennedy was shot there. Is it really necessary to hate a whole state because one person killed the president? Also, she heard all these stereotypes about Texas being a place with lots of guns and cowboys and death penalties, but most of it she said was JFK. The ignorance of some people.
And his brand of stupidity counterbalances the people stupid enough to say "I was gonna vote for him until I saw that photo of him in the tank."
I don't mind it at all, because the kind of people who hate 'all republicans' are part of the group of people that I hate all of, and I'm not even a Republican anymore. Hate, shmate. Yeah, it's the dark side. We all have somma that. Who cares?
And people wonder why half of eligible voters don't even register, let alone vote. This kind of shit begets apathy.
I hate both parties equally. One extreme has been as bad as the other, and both have, in their quests and lusts for power, done their part to destroy democracy and the spirit of our country. I guess that makes me double ignorant.
It goes both ways. There seem to be quite a few Republicans who would never vote for a Democrat. I'm a Registered Republican who voted for Ford, Reagan (twice), Bush (once), Clinton (twice), Gore, and Kerry. I'd love to vote for a Republican who was in favor of smaller, less-intrusive government, but they seem to have disappeared off the face of the Earth.
They never were a significant presence on the earth, at least among people actually running for office or setting policy. Lots of Republicans claimed to favor less intrusive government, but that mostly was just a very cynical way to shroud a set of policies that involved replacing direct taxation with uncontrolled borrowing while making marginal changes to the welfare state and dramatically increasing financial support of the police state in a chimerical cloak of fiscally responsibility.
Don't you hate Bush Jokes, too? I mean, they may have been funny the first few times you hear em, but they all start running together. Basically, all they say is "He's Stupid! He looks like a money! OIL OIL OIL! HAR HAR! TEXAN ACCENT!" I mean, don't they realize he can't help his looks, and a Texan Accent doesn't make for a good joke? And that Little Bush show on Comedy Central. They don't even base it off of him. They take his image and just turn it into a regular cartoon. They could have made it little Zed, who was a kid who turned president or something and it would be the same thing except that it wouldn't attract all the Bush hating liberals who watch Comedy Central. The only good thing on that station is the movies. The occasional classics they play, not the mediocre ones.
"Lil' Bush" God, that show was stupid. I'm glad it's [-]dead[/-] canceled. Is it wrong that the Bush birthday cards at Target make me LOL?
Unfortunately what you are describing isn't limited to Democrats. Both Republicans as well as Democrats pull that crap all the time. That is part of the reason we are stuck with the complete crap candidates that both sides force upon us each election cycle.
