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against my parents. they, especially my dad, are super liberal and it really pisses me off. one time my dad read something in the paper about the state of oaklahoma making christian-based license plates available to people. AVAILABLE, not required. still it was enough to set my dad into panic mode, he got really pissed about how it was a violation of the seperation of church and state. even my tree-hugging liberal mom thought he was taking it too far. another time my dad found an online game where you had to see if you could hit president bush with a shoe. my dad had a very good laugh at that, and i thought to myself "if that were barack obama who got a shoe thrown at him he wouldn't think it was funny at all". i have republican friends and i respect their opinions. i dont agree with everything they do but i dont agree with everything the democrats do either. im in the middle. i can pretty much identify republican families, they are usually the ones who have the most fun, the liberals are all worried that the world is going to hell yet the republicans are sitting back and having a big fat barbecue and enjoying life. my parents pretty much provoked a natural prejudice against republicans in me and i am not proud of it. i view them as superior because if it werent for them we would not have a lot of things. for once i want to be in the majority, not the minority. my dad getting stressed out over political things is really getting to me. ----- | |||||
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I think this is more of a blog, to be honest. ----- Ideas spring from deeds, not the other way around. | |||||
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Some people can disagree without being disagreeable. I respect that. ----- He was going to put his thick, hard candy cane into her no-no place, but then the Wiggles came on! | |||||
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radicals on either side should be watched out for, really ----- insert nerdy signature here | |||||
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Truth. NRA propaganda led to some guy murdering two police officers because he was afraid Obama was going to pass confiscatory gun laws. Didn't help that he was also nuts and an extremist (same thing), but that was apparently what set it off. ----- All I know is ball, and good...and rape. | |||||
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This seems to be a classic case of rebellion against perceived authority. Conservative/liberal parents will often produce liberal/conservative children if things don't go smoothly. i can pretty much identify republican families, they are usually the ones who have the most fun, With their wild sex lives they try to shove under the rug come election time. [This post was last updated on July 31, 2009, 2:46PM by nodgene.] | |||||
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^^ lol I would agree it's classic, but there is also definatly examples of strong role models causing similarities between parents and children. My main rebellion from my parental example was rejecting Religion, and embracing secular interpretation of ideology. Other wise, I am a slightly more radical version of my parents. ----- a person with a revolver in his pocket is safer from violence than one with understanding in his head; this does not mean, however, that those who are deprived of a revolver feel that they are deprived of life | |||||
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On February 2, 2009, 9:15PM, CaptainAssrape said: Plus, I've never met a laid back Republican- All the laidback people I know are actually very liberal. Didn't you know? Conservatives aren't allowed to have fun or express interest in anything that isn't Bible-approved or Rush Limbaugh. There are no exceptions. They also do not like good music or books. THEY ALSO TAKE THEMSELVES VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY ALL THE TIME. ----- I'm too fucking awesome for a signature. | |||||
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I'm 19 and a Republican...a bit more Libertarian on somethings and have been since I was like 12....Don't just rebel for the sake of it join the NRA or GOP because you really believe it...I mean I'm not even a register Republican and to be honest I probably won't register unless I have to(some states you have to be to vote in a primary...I think that's lame...just me)...... To be honest sir... I'd say you're already half way there....the GOP is much more independent then Libs(regardless what they want you to think)....And I personally feel we need more non religious people....the stereotype gets rather vexing after a while..... Have a good one... *smile* Kate ----- |I Glow In The Dark....It's A Sexy Red Head Thing| | |||||
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in my state, you can vote for either party in the primary as long as you're registered as an independent. ----- insert nerdy signature here | |||||
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On February 2, 2009, 11:05PM, ImAWhat said: I think this is more of a blog, to be honest. www.livejournal.com ----- | |||||
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Because you're more independent-minded than progressives. ----- He was going to put his thick, hard candy cane into her no-no place, but then the Wiggles came on! | |||||
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On February 3, 2009, 12:15AM, CaptainAssrape said: Why would you become a Republican simply to rebel against your parents? It's never a good idea to live your life in reaction to other people... Unless your views are actually conservative. Plus, I've never met a laid back Republican- All the laidback people I know are actually very liberal. i disagree completely, im from a place where "it is worse to be openly republican here than it is to be openly gay in texas" and i WAS a republican. i now consider myself a conservative person with no party. i dont vote pro life, pro god or all of the steriotypical conservative things i vote what i call pro freedom. this being said i have met so many liberals who when i told them i was conservative that they either a. stopped talking to me or b. began insulting me, calling me an idiot and verbally abusing me sound laid back to you? sounds like a bunch of assholes to me, unlike those who judge me i judge no one on what they believe, i judge them on who they are. i think if everyone did that this democrat and republican shit wouldn't be happening the way it is and this county would still be (metaphorically) on top of the international food chain that was sort of off topic but seriously, lets stop fighting each other and do something other than kill the country by bickering about who's ideal is better ----- random girl: who is that drunk guy in the tree? us: we have no idea, we just came out here and started watching him for the record, that random drunk guy was our friend, and we put him in the tree | |||||
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It's hard to be nice to the people you think are ruining everything that you love about your country and letting it become a fascist shithole sometimes. Not all the time. But sometimes. Them helping little old ladies crossing the street or being polite is little comfort when they allow heinous shit to be done in the rest of our names by voting the way they do. I don't hate you and everything you stand for... But I definitely hate what you stand for. That kinda thing. I think that's pretty understandable. But it is kinda easy for me to have this mentality when I'm progressive (read: correct in all of my political beliefs) and a self-righteous asshole. ----- He was going to put his thick, hard candy cane into her no-no place, but then the Wiggles came on! | |||||
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"Conservative" in a social sense means.....being against freedom. You realize that right? ----- DS Bureaucracy™: All the love a troll needs. | |||||
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uh, what? that's not what it means at all. it means that you're opposed to radical changes. since america has pretty much always been about freedom (not for everybody, but like i said, radicals on either side are trouble), how would it mean that you're against freedom? ----- insert nerdy signature here | |||||
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Being conservative in a social sense is in support of authoritarianism, as opposed to social libertarianism. In which case one side supports active government interference in human actions based on a culture's morality(no abortion, no fags, no religious freedom, no drugs, no violent video games, no cussing, etc) while libertarians support no government interference in human activity, (i.e. social freedom). There is a stark difference between a politicians social and economic political perspective. For instance, you can be authoritarian without being a neo-liberal capitalist(like say Chavez or Castro), or you can be a neo-liberal pure capitalist and still be a social libertarian(like say Ron Paul). In America you find social conservatives who are 'pro freedom' yet against social freedoms. Republicans are more authoritarian and only support progressive 'freedom' when it comes to economics, strangely enough even this support has eroded into support of multi national monopolies instead of real capitalistic competition. Republicans have sort of evolved into a corporate socialist oligarchy concerned with corporate welfare and using anti freedom moral based authoritarian issues to drum up support among social conservatives to support their true intentions of corporate socialism. It is only rhetoric and not their true opinions that they favour social freedom, except perhaps for Ron Paul. You can't really be pro freedom and against social freedoms. And sadly enough you can't even be a real neo liberal capitalist if your intention in government is corporate socialism. Republicans have become a party of big business socialism and big authoritarian government completely divergent from its small government, libertarian, capitalist roots. ----- DS Bureaucracy™: Now expanding to meet the needs of the DS Bureaucracy™. [This post was last updated on October 29, 2009, 4:36AM by Sgath.] | |||||
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you've got it all wrong, man. in this country, conservatives have always wanted smaller government while liberals have always wanted bigger government. reagan, for example, was known as saying, "government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem." and now, with a liberal president and congress, there are tons of stimulus packages and bills that make government bigger. ----- insert nerdy signature here [This post was last updated on October 29, 2009, 12:26PM by rlc.] | |||||
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*facepalm* -----  click! | |||||
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no u ----- insert nerdy signature here |
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