I still wish to know what communist/socialist things Obama has done compared to previous presidents who expanded those ideas more than him.
I still wish to know what communist/socialist things Obama has done compared to previous presidents who expanded those ideas more than him.
I didn't say we could make the leap to causation. I said that the correlation seems to be as strong as it could be without leaping to causation. At least that's what I meant to say. Simplest explanation and all that. The Fox News study was much more scientific than the chart I linked.
And as a side note I'd love a lecture on scientific theory and statistics. I've watched more than my fair share from tedtalks, but you can never know too much.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
I don't think you understand what "creationism" means in American parlance.
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As we've probably been over before, I actively support abortion. I think it's a great innovation, and I'm glad new technologies continue to make better forms of it (such as the RU486 pill) available to women that don't want children.
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I believe what you're referring to is confirmation bias. People see something they like the look of and decide it's true. From the exit polls I looked at, it looked like Romney had a very slight lead among people with 4 year degrees, but no post graduate education, while Obama won by something like a 55-42 margin among people with postgraduate educations. Obviously, neither of these leads is sufficient to declare that highly educated people have an enormous preference for one party or the other.
Depends if they realise that being a old white men party wont fit in todays & future US.
The problem is that their voters base is too small to compete. They need to reach out to the middle class, women, latinos.
Having a nuts christian rightwing agenda wont help them.
For the moment they are out of touch with reality.
But soon after Mr Xi secured a third term, Apple released a new version of the feature in China, limiting its scope. Now Chinese users of iPhones and other Apple devices are restricted to a 10-minute window when receiving files from people who are not listed as a contact. After 10 minutes, users can only receive files from contacts.
Apple did not explain why the update was first introduced in China, but over the years, the tech giant has been criticised for appeasing Beijing.
Last edited by Spectral; 2012-11-11 at 12:51 AM.
Coming from an outsider but who has been watching U.S. elections very closely for a long time: you people are overanalyzing too much.
People making all sorts of reasons and doom prophecies about the Republican party don't realize this stuff occurs every election cycle. It was doom-scenario for the Democrats when the Clinton/Monica affair surfaced. Did the Democrat party experience a radical change since the Clinton years to win the recent elections? No, it was simply because people were tired of the way Bush ran the country.
Claiming the GOP needs to do be more gay-friendly or less-religious or whatever is really unnecessary. You cater more to one bloc you lose another bloc of voters, and then what? Become Democrat-lite? All GOP needs to do is to point out and focus on Obama's mistakes as his second term he will be unable to blame anything on Bush.
Until 2016 there will be plenty of time and opportunities for Obama to screw up (and he will screw up plenty, just like any President before him). Obama won with a very thin margin over Romney. Until the next elections, Americans will develop Democrat-fatigue. More independents will start to switch right, Obama's ratings will plummet to the ground as his fours years count down, and Republicans will have a strong (even majority) voter presence again.
And the cycle will repeat.
It'd be so much easier if we just had a pill that temporarily killed people's desire to have sex in the first place.
As for the parties, they'll keep adapting as long as they want to keep having members in power. Publicly admitting being wrong though, good luck getting anyone to do that, politician or otherwise.
and the OP didn't do the same thing? This is a political discussion, people won't always agree. Cool down with the infractions.
Yet everyone forgets that Reagan was the first to introduce phone service to the poor. And they forget that if you want to, you know, get a job, a cell phone is a requirement.
As for the OP: it will depend on how honest they're willing to be with themselves. If they're willing to admit their hyper-conservative and religious platforms are unpalatable to a majority of the country and that they deluded themselves into thinking Romney's victory was assured, then there's a chance that the few moderates left in the party can pull it closer to center. If they continue to wail and gnash their teeth about the gays and abortions and liberals and the decline of White American Establishment and keep using the Southern Strategy, then no, they won't. Women (especially single women), minorities, and the poor are major voting blocks and as long as the GOP continues on course, to ignore them and campaign directly against their interests, they will continue to lose these vital votes. You can only run on angry, white racists for so long.
Last edited by Schaden; 2012-11-11 at 01:40 AM.
Can you be explicit about what what I said that made me lose credibility? The Tea Party certainly is a anti-government, anti-intellectual segment of the Republican Party, and it certainly was very effective in taking seats in Congress. Also, it was shift in ideology, not just a shift in tactics. You'd have a tough time finding as much open anti-science rhetoric before the Tea Party strain of thinking.
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Why in the world would we want that? You seem to have missed the part where sex is enjoyable, healthy, and creates bonds between people. It's not a dirty or bad thing that needs to be washed out of society.
Racism, sexism, and other white male supremacy ideals are on the rapid decline and the fact that the Republicans hold onto those ideals so tightly and refuse to let go is one of their big downfalls. You'd pretty much have to be a complete and utter bigoted racist misogynist asshole to agree with the fundamental conservative social policies.
As far as fiscal platform, the Republican party is so far from what it used to be I'm not really sure they can even really call themselves the Republican party any more. The last true Republican was Reagan, and Reagan and the Republicans before him realized that promoting small business and snuffing out big businesses that exploit people was the best way to have a strong economy. America was built on free enterprise and small businesses and we prospered so long as the government knocked down any of the big businesses back in the 20th century. The new Republican party panders to big businesses and is composed of/has their pockets lined by big businesses who ship jobs overseas to save a few cents. They'd rather give American dollars to Chinese workers because there are no labor laws in China. Obama is closer to a true classical Republican than any of the Republican candidates for this election.
I believe in classical Republican ideals which is why Obama was the best choice. Anyone who makes less than 250k a year or who owns a small business or who works for small business needs to get their head checked if they voted for Romney.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
post #7 gets a free pass, and post #201 gets infracted?
both used the same insult in the same manner. either use your hammer fairly or hold it back please.
Less than 1% of US latinos are atheist. 70% are catholic. Another 23% are other christian. They are quickly growing as well. Its safe to say religion will not lose its influence in the US for a long, long time, if ever. That's just reality.
If the republicans can just accept amnesty for illegal immigrants, I think the athiest posture of the democrat party should push latinos back to the GOP.
Well, you'd have to prove it, not just say it. The Tea Party is none of those things; anti-intellectual, anti-government, nor anti-science. Also, the Tea Party is separate from the Republican Party. Although, there are Republicans who support the Tea Party movement, they are separate.
Last edited by Jero; 2012-11-11 at 03:23 AM.
Actually, I said "No one that's sane actually supports abortion, they support a woman's right to choose."
You're right that I worded it incorrectly, and I shouldn't speak for other people, it's just that I see the act of having an abortion as an inherently negative concept. I understand that having an unwanted child is horrible, but that doesn't make the act of having an abortion any better. I've seen the decision permanently change the way people act.
It's impossible for me to have an unbiased opinion on this topic, so I'll just leave it at that.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
The idea that they're separate is absolute nonsense. Every single politician that's gained Tea Party support is Republican, there's not a single exception.
The Tea Party's most relevant member and chair of the Tea Party caucus is Michelle Bachmann. If that's insufficient evidence that movement has an anti-intellectual, anti-government, anti-science bent, then I have no desire to discuss the matter with you.
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My intention wasn't to distort, it was to paraphrase. I'm sorry if the way I put it doesn't capture your intended meaning. I honestly fail to understand the different between the statement "no one's in favor of abortion" and what you actually said, unless you're telling me that I'm insane (I assume that's not your position, but I don't want to put words in your.... keyboard?).
Well, relative to not being pregnant at all, having an abortion is surely a negative experience. Nonetheless, it's a vastly superior choice to having a child for many of the people that choose it. There's absolutely zero doubt in my mind that my girlfriend would have no compunctions about popping the required pills for a chemical abortion, and both of us would move on with life and never really give it a second thought. The only thing it would make me think is that maybe it's time to badger a doctor for a vasectomy. There's literally nothing morally ambiguous about this to me at all. I understand that others don't feel the same way; please try to extend that courtesy.