The Eternal Question

[DaveJ]

Poll question: The Eternal Question

I think the greatest minds in the world are yet to figure this one out.

These days are more Republicans people who just don’t care, people who just want to look out for number one (morally vacant) or are more of them actively out to decrease all forms of social diversity while making the less fortunate suffer even more than they already are (morally repugnant).

Option three is also included for those who want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

[Cobalt-60]

1. I've seen friends converted

The critical point seems to occur when they decide that anything goes if it lines their pockets.

[DaveJ]

2. Nice!

I think Repukes can be converted in two ways, one is to educate them, since many of them are ignorant dweebs and 'dweebettes' just doing what their Republican associates want them to do. And the other way is to entice them by pointing out how it would socially and financially benefit them.

[madmusic]

3. Other, and it is more complex.

There is a division within the party, and it is drastic. Neocons are NOT Republicans. They have no problem at all with deception or immoral acts. They think the people need something drastically evil at all times to rail against. And they think we need constant war.

They are very much like the Taliban in that they hate the "decadence" of individualism and think the people too stupid and immoral to know who to live correctly, which is why bin Laden would get along quite well with them if they didn't both need war so much. (bin Laden wants to shock and control with war and the fear of decadence as well.)

Republicans are not the same at all. They merely want small government, personal liberties, little or no taxes and independence.

Neocons hijacked some Republican or Democrat values and goals when it served them well, and they did not have to believe in any of it to do so. The two parties ride along with the neocons as if suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

[JohnnyLib2]

4. Well said.

"hijacked" is such a key point, IMO. It hasn't been that long since the moderate vs. extreme right wing branches of the GOP were in open conflict.