The Very Separate World of Conservative Republicans

[LuckyTheDog]

The self-identifying conservative Republicans who make up the base of the Republican Party stand a world apart from the rest of America, according to focus groups conducted by Democracy Corps. These base Republican voters dislike Barack Obama to be sure – which is not very surprising as base Democrats had few positive things to say about George Bush – but these voters identify themselves as part of a ‘mocked’ minority with a set of shared beliefs and knowledge, and commitment to oppose Obama that sets them apart from the majority in the country. They believe Obama is ruthlessly advancing a ‘secret agenda’ to bankrupt the United States and dramatically expand government control to an extent nothing short of socialism. They overwhelmingly view a successful Obama presidency as the destruction of this country’s founding principles and are committed to seeing the president fail.

More here: http://www.democracycorps.com/focus/2009/10/the-very-separate-world-of-conservative-republicans/

[barbtries]

1. sick puppies. nt

[tblue]

2. It's called 'Oppression Envy'

They wanna be the oppressed, maligned,, neglected, self-righteous indignant minority so bad they fabricate their victimhood out of whole cloth. They have secretly been jealous of black people, feminists, the disabled, peace marchers. and gays for years. So they throw a tea party tantrum because they wanna be the victim dammit! Only problem is, the people they accuse are not victimizing them.

[RandomThoughts]

3. The bright side of that is that at least they are seeing something is wrong.

The right that is not happy, many of them are not happy for good reasons, there are some things wrong. Certain groups can not hide that so they are trying to point it at their opposition.

Most control groups do bad, then blame the people that are trying to good for having done the bad things. It is the false flag of PR.

It is true that any person can have a secret agenda. It is possible for anyone to have a different idea then an observer thinks. That is not important, you support someone while they do good works, if they stop and do bad things, you stop supporting them. But you can still be kind to them.

And most people agree with that, so PR tries to make the things they like look good, and the things they do not like look bad. They change what they say and what they know is bad or good for everyone, because some of them care only for smaller groups of people, and think they have to fool large groups to get them to support what is actually bad for them.

It is pretty simple, if a group has a small empathy circle and only takes care of their own group, they can only prosper if they can fool enough people into thinking they are part of that group. Reagan 1980 got people to think that the group he supported would include many Americans.

But people with small group empathy circles always shrink their empathy group more and more if they ever gain any power. Because ultimately they want it to be all about what they get. It is the definition of selfish.

So over the years they got people to think they were in the advantage circle. And many people did well, but then there was so some money in the outer part of the advantage circle, they went after that group, kicking them out. and they do that over and over, till the selfish are a very small group trying to tell the people they don't care about, that they are still in 'their group' as they don't care about them.

It is a downward spiral.

Anyone that says it is about 'us' and 'them', will most likely exclude you from the 'us' group if they get a chance and think it will help a smaller 'us' circle. Its the old adage about not trusting people with no honor. It is even on ideology testing in corporations to limit stealing.

If someone will do bad for you, eventually they will do bad to you. That's just one more reason to do good not bad. A rational and thought about reason.

[Sinti]

4. I agree, the bright side is they see something is wrong - they're just confused about the what

PR also has an input side, they have a whole lot of demographic and psycho-graphic information on these people. This is part of how you sell any product - you hit a psycho-graphic with one message, a different psycho-graphic with another and both messages have the same result. It's demand generation - make the product then create the demand. It used to be the other way around. Of course, there are limits to any marketing campaign's success, when you start to see a slow down in the hysteria, use something new for each psycho-graphic. Most people respond to FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt)