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What's Your Top Reason For Voting Republican?

I read the book recently. Quite good. Didn't know there was a movie.

Are you saying the movie wasn't great as a movie, or that the post-rational culture it depicted wasn't great?
I saw it several years ago (might have been for school). As i recall I didn't find the movie itself very appealing. It had a lifetime melodrama quality about it. The subject matter and story seemed interesting however.
 
It would be interesting to watch the movie, but scary to live it.
The Obama years movie looks like:

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You're missing act two where the government drives up and shoots them all for dancing in their car. Or was your point just that black people were dancing? That could be a good movie too.
Either way you want to look at it, doesn't really matter what anyone else says as you and the rest of the Left put your spin on what is in front of you (and that applies to the right as well).
 
Not even slightly what I claimed.

We committed genocide against Native Americans to steal their land. We bought territory from nations with no right to sell it. We forced treaties with nations at the point of a gun to legitimize our theft. We enslaved Africans to do our work. The wealthy and corporations bribed our government officials to steal the commons. We dump our wastes into air and water and let it be someone else's problem. We start wars for profit. And much more.

It doesn't take too much thought to recognize that most wealth today is tainted. Even if you are a totally honest, hard-working person, "your money" rests on a corrupt and criminal foundation.

Most people don't want to do anything about that. So they deny it's true. And thereby transition from unwitting beneficiary of a criminal enterprise to a complicit beneficiary of a criminal enterprise.

So in other words, everyone is evil.
 
Either way you want to look at it, doesn't really matter what anyone else says as you and the rest of the Left put your spin on what is in front of you (and that applies to the right as well).
Yes, we are all thinking humans and put our own spin on everything. Absent and explanation even more so.
 
This is a fun list. #2 is my favorite. What's yours?

2. You like eating, drinking and breathing poison.

Many Republicans are calling for or voting for shrinking or eliminating agencies that protect us against poison. They seem to think that the corporations will do the right thing, without any pressure from the government.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/25/1020037/-Top-10-reasons-to-vote-Republican
Democrats are nuts...I mean 5* certifiable loons...look in their eyes...they are like rolling marbles. I suspect Sanders is manic depressive...he needs intensive treatment...Clinton is just one evil bitch.
 
The fact that the Republican's are a fractured party and the Democratics, on the other hand, are lockstep zombies, suggest that there might be a little more serious thinking on the political right. Never trust a large group of people that agree on anything - or worse yet, that agree on everything.

To be fair, Dems mostly agree on basic things, such as equality, a strong middle class, women's rights, and science.

They've figured out that only a small portion of the right wants to argue against those things, and those people won't vote D anyway, so why not just go with what the majority of Americans want?

The Republicans used to be way better at playing the game than the Democrats. Now, I think it's flipped. Instead of "serious thinking" I would describe the Republicans who differ as pandering, just to different fringe groups. When they don't pander, they're more or less in lockstep with the Democrats. It's going to be a strategy that will pay off for the D nominee, won't have to tick toward the center when the general comes, whereas the R nominee will have to flip on a few issues.


As to the topic of the OP, I generally vote R because I believe that a free-market economy, when properly regulated, is what is best for this country. Over the last 4-5 years, it's been increasingly hard to find a GOP member who just wants to focus on that (or even do that, as many of them are just as bad as the Ds in spending, or in the alternative, are too anti-regulation for me). Most now are ticking so far socially right that I can't vote for them, as I don't want to support the government stripping away rights. Last 2 Presidential candidates I've voted for were Ron Paul and Gary Johnson. Not sure who I'd vote for now. Maybe Romney will jump in and avoid being a fringe lunatic on a few issues and then I can vote for him. Or maybe Jon Huntsman will come back. I'd be elated if that guy was the next POTUS. Outside of those two, and I'll probably write in someone.
 
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Either way you want to look at it, doesn't really matter what anyone else says as you and the rest of the Left put your spin on what is in front of you (and that applies to the right as well).

Lol. You posted a picture of black guys dancing in a car as the movie that portrays Obama's years as President, then get pissed when people ascribe meaning to your obviously racist post?

Only on HROT.
 
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Lol. You posted a picture of black guys dancing in a car as the movie that portrays Obama's years as President, then get pissed when people ascribe meaning to your obviously racist post?

Only on HROT.
FUnny - you read text and took a side of "pissed" - I wasn't and am not pissed at all.

Only on HROT do folks like you masturbate to their own verbiage.
 
FUnny - you read text and took a side of "pissed" - I wasn't and am not pissed at all.

Only on HROT do folks like you masturbate to their own verbiage.

Ok. Fine. Let's break down your words and see if my point still stands, shall we?

You posted: "Either way you want to look at it, doesn't really matter what anyone else says as you and the rest of the Left put your spin on what is in front of you (and that applies to the right as well)."

I posted: "Lol. You posted a picture of black guys dancing in a car as the movie that portrays Obama's years as President, then get pissed when people ascribe meaning to your obviously racist post?

Only on HROT."


What spin, my friend, are we putting on you posting a gif of 3 black men, dancing in a car, to "illustrate" the Obama years?

What were you trying to use that gif to represent?
 
I generally vote R because I believe that a free-market economy, when properly regulated, is what is best for this country.
I thought this to be a very telling comment.

There's no real evidence that the Rs support a free-market economy, but there's plenty of evidence that they oppose many of the regulations that would make a free-market economy work well.

While Ds don't genuflect to free-marketeerism to the same degree, they don't actually oppose a sensibly-regulated market.
 
I was at a party one time and I was making some great headway with this really cute Asian chick. I can't remember what the conversation was about anymore, but I used the "retard" during it. She just stopped, looked at me, and said, "I have a special needs brother, and I don't find that word appropriate." I just turned around, walked off, and found some other really cute girl to talk to. Who wants to end up having to take care of a retarded in-law later on in life. That would really cut into my drinking/golfing/watching ball games time right there.
I'm sure many of your prospective in-laws are thinking that exact same thing.
 
You're not going to follow them are you? We have enough of you racist people down here, all from somewhere else.

Have no fear, I have zero interest in coming to where you are. And I like how you spun this from you being an ignorant, intolerant, sack of excrement to me being racist somehow. Well played.
 
Only on HROT do folks like you masturbate to their own verbiage.
That's a really sad view of the world. I pray the great God Priapus (sound it out and think about it) that people are stroking all over the net to verbiage of their own design.
 
I thought this to be a very telling comment.

There's no real evidence that the Rs support a free-market economy, but there's plenty of evidence that they oppose many of the regulations that would make a free-market economy work well.

While Ds don't genuflect to free-marketeerism to the same degree, they don't actually oppose a sensibly-regulated market.

If there is one thing that is not sensible, that would be democrats. Democrats think with emotion, not logic. Emotional thinkers almost always make the wrong choices. All you have to do is look at women.
 
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