Religious politics
They are simply making decisions based on who they've been taught a 'moral' person must vote for.
That sounds like your Dad talking. That was true locally and/or thirty years ago, but it isn't any longer. While better than 90% of Americans believe in a divine creator, the number of people who associate themselves with a major religion in America has declined for years, with most of the losses being from Catholicism. When polled, most Americans actually believe in the mythological constitutional separation of church and state. And as further evidence, all of the major political candidates who have self-identified as moralists, Pat Robertson, Pat Buchannan, Alan Keyes, have done very poorly in partisan primaries as well as general elections. In short, what you are saying is little more than propaganda disseminated by leftist pols who fear the idea of rational, thinking conservatives.
Too many of those effectively parading as moralist conservatives -- most of which are simply the greediest of capitalist conservatives...
I don't know who you mean. Do you have any names?
With that said, any extreme, dogmatic viewpoint -- either far left or far right -- is both unrealistic and against the nature of society.
You're mixing adjectives. Extreme is a matter of context. You think my views are extreme, yet I could introduce you to a community of thousands who find my views to be well in the mainstream. Dogma is also contextual, though more obvious. Be careful that you don't confuse dogma with a rationally derived conclusion.
All great ideas reside somewhere in the middle of two extreme and opposing philosophies.
Ah, the rallying cry of the "moderates." Somewhere between thesis and antithesis is synthesis? Of course that is completely untrue. The first and best example I can give is the United States of America. It was an idea born out of the purest radicalism that came into being only after being watered with plenty of blood and tears. Moderates need not apply. The second best I can give you are the words of Jesus of Nazareth, himself:
"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."
That sounds like your Dad talking. That was true locally and/or thirty years ago, but it isn't any longer. While better than 90% of Americans believe in a divine creator, the number of people who associate themselves with a major religion in America has declined for years, with most of the losses being from Catholicism. When polled, most Americans actually believe in the mythological constitutional separation of church and state. And as further evidence, all of the major political candidates who have self-identified as moralists, Pat Robertson, Pat Buchannan, Alan Keyes, have done very poorly in partisan primaries as well as general elections. In short, what you are saying is little more than propaganda disseminated by leftist pols who fear the idea of rational, thinking conservatives.
Too many of those effectively parading as moralist conservatives -- most of which are simply the greediest of capitalist conservatives...
I don't know who you mean. Do you have any names?
With that said, any extreme, dogmatic viewpoint -- either far left or far right -- is both unrealistic and against the nature of society.
You're mixing adjectives. Extreme is a matter of context. You think my views are extreme, yet I could introduce you to a community of thousands who find my views to be well in the mainstream. Dogma is also contextual, though more obvious. Be careful that you don't confuse dogma with a rationally derived conclusion.
All great ideas reside somewhere in the middle of two extreme and opposing philosophies.
Ah, the rallying cry of the "moderates." Somewhere between thesis and antithesis is synthesis? Of course that is completely untrue. The first and best example I can give is the United States of America. It was an idea born out of the purest radicalism that came into being only after being watered with plenty of blood and tears. Moderates need not apply. The second best I can give you are the words of Jesus of Nazareth, himself:
"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."
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