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	<title>Comments on: Why do people vote Republican?</title>
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		<title>By: Tom</title>
		<link>http://futurismic.com/2008/09/12/why-do-people-vote-republican/comment-page-1/#comment-23064</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Likwidshoe,

Your &quot;definitions&quot; are the ones redefining words; you don&#039;t have an accurate understanding of any of the phrases listed. Pro-choice, affirmative action, liberal... you throw those words out like they are &quot;obviously insidious Orwellian words used to brainwash the masses&quot; without applying any of that &quot;reason&quot; you seem to desperately invoking.

Try getting a better understanding of what liberals and/or Democrats really are after instead of parroting some dittohead nonsense...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Likwidshoe,</p>
<p>Your &#8220;definitions&#8221; are the ones redefining words; you don&#8217;t have an accurate understanding of any of the phrases listed. Pro-choice, affirmative action, liberal&#8230; you throw those words out like they are &#8220;obviously insidious Orwellian words used to brainwash the masses&#8221; without applying any of that &#8220;reason&#8221; you seem to desperately invoking.</p>
<p>Try getting a better understanding of what liberals and/or Democrats really are after instead of parroting some dittohead nonsense&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: likwidshoe</title>
		<link>http://futurismic.com/2008/09/12/why-do-people-vote-republican/comment-page-1/#comment-18081</link>
		<dc:creator>likwidshoe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Democrats appeal to reason?

Then why do they enthusiastically endorse massive government Ponzi Schemes? Where is the &quot;reason&quot;?

Why do they redefine words? &quot;Pro-choice&quot; equals no choice. &quot;Affirmative&quot; action equals racism. &quot;Liberal&quot; equals illiberal. &quot;Progressive&quot; equals regressive.

Where&#039;s the reason?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democrats appeal to reason?</p>
<p>Then why do they enthusiastically endorse massive government Ponzi Schemes? Where is the &#8220;reason&#8221;?</p>
<p>Why do they redefine words? &#8220;Pro-choice&#8221; equals no choice. &#8220;Affirmative&#8221; action equals racism. &#8220;Liberal&#8221; equals illiberal. &#8220;Progressive&#8221; equals regressive.</p>
<p>Where&#8217;s the reason?</p>
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		<title>By: Lorin Kinney</title>
		<link>http://futurismic.com/2008/09/12/why-do-people-vote-republican/comment-page-1/#comment-16999</link>
		<dc:creator>Lorin Kinney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>California is not the hotbed of liberalism. Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rhode Island are along with Washington DC. The reality is, a postmodern perspective does bring people cross-culturally, together. Let&#039;s embrace that concept that both republicans and democrats love America, and want to see it thrive. However it is merely the way in which we ensure that success. It is clear through practice that a welfare state benefits the nation more. It is worth continuing in the vein of FDR similar principles and ignoring movement conservatism because it only makes disparity of income and racial tension worse.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>California is not the hotbed of liberalism. Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rhode Island are along with Washington DC. The reality is, a postmodern perspective does bring people cross-culturally, together. Let&#8217;s embrace that concept that both republicans and democrats love America, and want to see it thrive. However it is merely the way in which we ensure that success. It is clear through practice that a welfare state benefits the nation more. It is worth continuing in the vein of FDR similar principles and ignoring movement conservatism because it only makes disparity of income and racial tension worse.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Carnell</title>
		<link>http://futurismic.com/2008/09/12/why-do-people-vote-republican/comment-page-1/#comment-16361</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Carnell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Howard Gardner wonders why left-wing societies have lower crime rates and more stable marriages; &quot;

I have a provisional hypothesis for both depending on we are defending &quot;left wing.&quot; If by that we tend to mean European nations, I suspect the answer to both is that the U.S. Constitution is a much better protector of individual rights and that the emphasis on individual rights in this country provides both cultural and legal obstacles to stabilizing marriages and curbing crime.

On the crime issues, when you look at European states they tend to have far more expansive police powers. In many parts of Europe if there is an unsolved rape it is completely legal for police to simply round up all men in the area and perform DNA tests on them.

Obviously this is an oversimplification, but I expect to some extent the high crime rate and lack of stable marriages is simply the price we pay for a much more expansive view of individual freedom.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Howard Gardner wonders why left-wing societies have lower crime rates and more stable marriages; &#8221;</p>
<p>I have a provisional hypothesis for both depending on we are defending &#8220;left wing.&#8221; If by that we tend to mean European nations, I suspect the answer to both is that the U.S. Constitution is a much better protector of individual rights and that the emphasis on individual rights in this country provides both cultural and legal obstacles to stabilizing marriages and curbing crime.</p>
<p>On the crime issues, when you look at European states they tend to have far more expansive police powers. In many parts of Europe if there is an unsolved rape it is completely legal for police to simply round up all men in the area and perform DNA tests on them.</p>
<p>Obviously this is an oversimplification, but I expect to some extent the high crime rate and lack of stable marriages is simply the price we pay for a much more expansive view of individual freedom.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Marcinko</title>
		<link>http://futurismic.com/2008/09/12/why-do-people-vote-republican/comment-page-1/#comment-16297</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Marcinko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s why I read it too.  Seriously.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s why I read it too.  Seriously.</p>
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