Corth wrote:Thats kind of the reason why the hollywood liberals are liberals. They have dozens of millions and can't see why it matters if the government takes an extra 20% or so. The conventional wisdom that republicans are rich and democrats are poor is bunk. The Republican base is the middle class. Democrat base are minorities (taken for granted, year after year), the very young (naive), the very old (dependent on handouts), and the very rich (out of touch).
Corth
I've been thinking about things overnight, and I remembered a conclusion I came to a couple weeks ago while arguing with an extremist libertarian.
The real problem with your argument is that much of it is based in logical fallacy. Hasty Generalization to be specific.
Yo you ALL minorities are Democrats, all the young are naieve, and all the elderly depend on handouts while the very rich are out of touch and support Democrats too...
You think anyone poor is lazy, and discount specific examples as trumped up sob stories.
Those are all generalizations and your entire argument, if not belief system, is based on them!
1) Minorities: I believe latinos tend to be very conservative.
2) Nievete comes with inattention and not paying attention, not with youth. Remember, to someone out there YOU are young.
3) Some elderly depend on handouts, but they have paid for them their entire lives!
4) Many of the very wealthy are Republicans... the Bush family for example. So if then wealthy are out of touch...
5) Many poor work harder than you can imagine, but perhaps have simply made a bad decision or aren't as smart as you.
Do you think people should suffer? Try to answer this without making qualifications.