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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 03:51 PM Original message |
I think I've figured out why the non-wealthy would support teabagger policies/goals. |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. The reason right wingers support the rich |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 06:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
24. Even as they putt around in their Medicaid Scooters because they only have a couple years to live |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yep. It's the same reason poor whites supported slavery. |
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butterfly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 06:45 PM Response to Reply #2 |
22. That is why they need people like.. |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 07:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
25. Bob Dylan's "Only a Pawn in their Game" is appropos: |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. If this were the 1930s, they would be blaming the Jews. nt |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 06:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. I don't think you want to delve too far on DU..... |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
4. Acceptance of economic and social inequities is basic conservative |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. God they LOVE blaming people! Anyone remember bill frist, after that tsunami in the Indian |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
6. There is something to this. In child development, there's a theory of |
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nobodyspecial (309 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 04:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Libertarians are definitely stuck in Level 1 |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 04:28 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Yep, that's where I would put them too. |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 06:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. The deeply religious people I know, I'd say were all Level 6's, but they're liberal activists... |
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arbusto_baboso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 04:14 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Interesting stuff. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Kohlberg parallels Piaget's seminal work on Cognitive Development. Kohlberg was |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. BIG factor this. I've talked to someone on FB who says the Rx for this problem is STORIES. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 06:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. I'll bet that's true. |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
10. You've essentially described the theory that George Lakoff has for how Conservatives think |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
11. They are classic authoritarian personality types |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 05:34 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Locus of control is external. Hence, Rick Perry's "Make Us Great Again" |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
12. It's simpler than that. They do what the teevee tells them. They believe what the teevee tells them. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
13. Agreed! + They are afraid they will lose their jobs in America's "at will" employment |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
18. yeah maybe but to me it's obvious that it's all about racism |
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MrMickeysMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
19. Or..... |
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Shandris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
21. I was brought up to stop at the end of Level 1 (Number 2) |
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socialindependocrat (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
26. They want to legislate morality. |
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Kat45 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
27. Many of the rich have the moral deficiency of greed/ |
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