ninetailschris said:
Mr Khan said:
thranx said:
Vikki said:
Dark_Lord_2008 said:
Obamacare will fail because rednecks/low to middle income people in America commonly vote against popular measures that benefit them because they usually fall for the conservative media fear campaign. Some information and a conducting research into public health care in Europe and Canada will actually reveal that Universal Medicare is a good thing and its benefits far outweigh its costs. |
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Coming from a Brit, Americans confuse me. Like, I'll never understand how low income householes ever vote republican, the party that will make them even poorer.
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people vote conservative cause they dont want hand outs they want to earn for themselves and be their own people, and realize that just cause a promise is made doesn't mean it will happen. OIbamacare is the best example of this. democrats practice to much bait and switch, and can't keep the promises they make as they are unrealstic. Also money isnt everything, some people are happy with what they have and dont crave more. and on top of it all we are a massive country with 300+million people, from many backgrounds and ethnicities, we cant use a one size fits all solution for things. But if you really look closely at it, what you'll see is that republicans and democrats aren't much different from each other. they both want more tax and regulation, the party of the future is the tea party.
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Demography suggests that the tea party is the party of the past almost by definition.
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One of the things I like to research is politics and I can firmly say your bsing. You most likely doing a generalization based on some news show who told this but never looked it up. I'm not even a tea party member and I know generalizing people like that is flatout dishonest without facts.
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I don't think he was trying to bash the "Tea Party" he was just saying they are the party of the past by definition because they hold such extremely conservative beliefs.
Some Tea Party politicians believe that a woman becoming pregnant from rape is a blessing from god (Richard Mourdock) and global warming is a scam and the world gets warm because that's what god intended to happen(Sarah Palin). Another Tea Party politician (Jesse Peterson) believes america took a turn for the worst when women were allowed to vote and thinks we should regulate the female vote.
The Tea Party is extremely out of touch on what the current generation believes and that is why the republican party basically has two parties fighting amoungst itself, conservatives and extremely conservative.
Not saying anything is wrong with having those extremely conservative beliefs, it's just that's not the norm in 2013, just like having extremely liberal views isn't the norm.
