Do you believe all republicans are different?

[Dangerman]

That's what my mother told me.

[Neshanic]

1. Other than the prehensile tail, no.

[AlCzervik]

2. from what?

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. ...

:spray:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. I think most Republicans tend to have sociopath inside them

And I'm not joking! They seem to have MUCH less of a conscience.

[Buzz Clik]

5. Sorta like Palin believes that liberals are unAmerican.

It's great stuff for comedy. Makes for bad humanity.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

13. Have you ever talked to a Republican about the poor? nt

[Buzz Clik]

18. Sure have. I guess you have, too. Let's compare.

I had a long conversation a woman who was the regional director of the Red Cross where I lived. Under her leadership, a large metropolitan area (roughly 500,000 people) opened the first homeless shelter in the area. The Red Cross director personally initiated the homeless shelter and was tireless in her fund raising to keep it functioning. The shelter was started 20 years ago, and it still functions today.

This woman has been a Republican her entire life and voted for one Dem for president -- Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

No matter how many Republicans you've heard say that all the poor should die (or whatever), my example shows clearly that not all Republicans are alike.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

19. Nono, I've met other types of Republicans

The latest one I met is a deacon with his church and in charge of the donations to the poor. He has the poor present their case, scrutinizes the situation, and determines if they're worthy.

(I am not joking)

I have many more stories

[Buzz Clik]

20. Yep. People come in all flavors, from wonderful to pure evil.

None of which has any correlation with party affiliation.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

21. Right wing ideology is primarily punitive. Whom do you think it's going to attract? nt

[Buzz Clik]

23. Getting back to your original approach: I simply disagree that most Repubs are socioapaths.

Just too general for my taste.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

24. Fine. Maybe some really nice people subscribe to that punitive, sadistic ideology

because they're too stupid to know what they're doing?

[Buzz Clik]

25. Yeesh. So much hate. I'll pass, thanks.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

30. I don't like love fests with Republicans. Too many have died and are dying because of them nt

[liberalmuse]

6. LOL, no...

they are all the fucking same. Stupid, and Evil.

[ContinentalOp]

27. I think you're wrong.

Stupid or evil. And the stupid ones are perhaps evil in their ignorance. But there are certainly Republicans who are not stupid but just pure evil.

There are two sides to the Republican base -- The purely selfish and greedy, evil fucks who know exactly what they're doing, and the vast majority of the base -- the useful idiots.

I think that's the cause of some of the disconnect here. You can say "all Republicans are evil" and someone will tell you an anecdote about a Republican who is kind and pure of heart. You can say "all Republicans are stupid" and somebody will tell you about some brilliant calculating type. So people need to recognize that Republicans are stupid OR evil, not stupid AND evil.

[LynnTheDem]

7. Yes; it's the degree of

absolute fucking stupidity that differs.

[Martin Eden]

8. I'm not a believer ...

... and I try to avoid stereotypes.

Every human being is unique; is your mother asserting all Republicans are different from each other, or that Republicans as a group are different from everyone else?

[rwheeler31]

9. She was warning you that they are all

dangerous but some are human.

[Dragonfli]

10. They follow a herd mentality so...

They change rather uniformly to respond verbatim to their current "shepard".
They absolutely fear and hate those "in-between times" when they are not sure who to follow.

The very few that seem "different" are merely jockeying for head goat.

They are rather funny at times when the herd has no leader (like now), going every which way to try to find the new uniformity.

They are a sad, odd, and vacuous species.

JMO

[JJ]

11. different than what?

There are two kinds of Republicans.

Those that are in on it. ie the millionaires and billionaires that know their policies are bullshit to make themselves richer and more powerful.

The morons who vote against their own interests because of the fearmongering of the first kind, and will believe in fairy tales like trickle down economics etc.

[stray cat]

12. You mean she thinks they are aliens from outerspace

Definitely not the ones realated to me - some of the ones from planet earth are quite smart and ethical as well

[htuttle]

14. It's quite easy to tell Republicans apart...

...if you have a mass spectrometer and a sufficient amount of time. :)

[blaze]

15. Thom Hartmann said

something like.... Republicans work from the base of "orignal sin" sort of. That all people are basically prone to evil and need to be ruled in order to control them and to protect them from their baser instincts. Where Democrats work from the base that people are basically good and need to be loved and cared for.

[PatriotGames]

16. Yes. Just like all Democrats different. n/t

[CrispyQ]

17. I believe that they definitely hold a different world view.

They tend to not question authority. They look to someone to tell them what the rules are & follow those rules. They want a world that is black & white - easy to evaluate & navigate. If you do what you're told, you will be successful, you will be rewarded. That's one reason they are so angry right now. They did what their authoritarian leaders told them & they are worse off than they were before. However, because they never question authority, especially their authorities, they look for someone else to blame for their problems - namely liberals.

If you're really interested in this topic, check out George Lakoff's book "Don't Think of an Elephant." He gives a very good assessment of the difference between the conservative world view & the liberal world view.

Here's a thread with a discussion of the book on the DU non-fiction books forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=209&topic_id=806&mesg_id=806

And here's an Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Think-Elephant-Debate-Progressives/dp/1931498717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226541402&sr=1-1

[leftofthedial]

22. I think you have to be antisocial or pre-sociopathic or outright sociopathic

to be a repuke.

Flat-out, straight up. You can't believe in the golden rule and be a repuke.

[ColbertWatcher]

26. There may be different kinds of conservatives, but ...

... there are few varieties of Republicans, if there is any diversity at all.

The party has insured only the most obedient are welcome and rewarded.

[ContinentalOp]

28. Yes, they are all unique. Like snowflakes. I mean, they all look alike to me...

but here is how you tell them apart...

[mitchum]

29. Some are living and some are dead