Author Topic: What makes City folk, Democrats and rural fold Republicans? (Read 1853 times)

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 04, 2004, 02:01:57 PM »

Charon
Are you trying to say the repulican party of today is imoral and the party of bigots?

I think you are wrong, I do not think either party tolerate bigotry anymore, though them Democrats like to use it when it is not waranted.

JB73 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 04, 2004, 02:08:02 PM »

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Originally posted by GtoRA2
JB73
So you're a christian that does not aprove of gayness?

been stated many times here. not going to get into it again, got me almost banned last time i talked about it.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 04, 2004, 02:25:13 PM »

Well I am not going to go search for your older posts, a simple yes I a christian think Homosexuality is not good would have been fine.

But since you want to be vague, I gues we are done having what was a civil conversation.

Charon · « **Reply #18 on:** November 04, 2004, 02:33:24 PM »

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Are you trying to say the repulican party of today is imoral and the party of bigots?

No, just pointing out that when Rude claims some sort of moral superority for Republican ideals (kind of hard not to see that as being what he implied) like anything else, it gets a bit more complicated.

Clearly there are plenty of self-serving amoral people in the world -- republican, democratic and in between. Some even think they are saints

The same goes for rural and city folk. Small towns are great places to live and vist -- if you happen to fit in with the local crowd. If not it can be a hell on earth, and the ability to get lost in a big city becomes a blessing.

BTW, I've met plenty of truly friendly people in the City. I've also met my share of people in small towns who are great friends to your face. People are people.

Charon

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #19 on:** November 04, 2004, 02:37:41 PM »

Ah yes, you are right on that.... just making sure about the bigot thing.

I really do not think either party has room for nor tolerates it anymore.

JB73 · « **Reply #20 on:** November 04, 2004, 02:55:34 PM »

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Originally posted by GtoRA2
Well I am not going to go search for your older posts, a simple yes I a christian think Homosexuality is not good would have been fine.

But since you want to be vague, I gues we are done having what was a civil conversation.

i just really dont want this to become a debate on that issue, for i will not take part in a dicussion of it, thats all.

see still civil, still answering concise, just dont wanna talk about gheys LOL

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 04, 2004, 02:58:58 PM »

This is not about the gays, what I was trying to find out is if your sister is tolerant of people who do not share who view of gays.

Tolerence should go both ways.

john9001 · « **Reply #22 on:** November 04, 2004, 03:41:49 PM »

i'm trying to figer this out.

if you don't "like" gays, you a bigot.

if you don't like people who don't like gays , your ok.

sounds a little self rightous.

vorticon · « **Reply #23 on:** November 04, 2004, 03:47:11 PM »

simple, city folk have to much time on there hands, and are generally completly removed for reality. rural folk on the other hand, spend all there time working, and are relativly removed from reality. its the rurals who life relativly close (within 45 minutes) of a big city who have the greatest hold on reality, and therefore dont bother voting...

im crazy

JB73 · « **Reply #24 on:** November 04, 2004, 04:01:58 PM »

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Originally posted by GtoRA2
This is not about the gays, what I was trying to find out is if your sister is tolerant of people who do not share who view of gays.

Tolerence should go both ways.

i know what you were going for, but bring up religion and homosexuality on this board, be prepared for a trainwreck of a thread LOL

Ripsnort · « **Reply #25 on:** November 04, 2004, 04:05:29 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
i'm trying to figer this out.

if you don't "like" gays, you a bigot.

if you don't like people who don't like gays , your ok.

sounds a little self rightous.

Read my sig.

J_A_B · « **Reply #26 on:** November 04, 2004, 04:33:53 PM »

Well they're right on the religion part....fundamentalism sucks no matter what banner it's under.

J_A_B

Zippatuh · « **Reply #27 on:** November 04, 2004, 04:55:11 PM »

Cities = democrat = bleeding harts and/or wanting a hand out

Rural = republican = I can do it so should you

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #28 on:** November 04, 2004, 05:15:48 PM »

JB
It is not even about that,

What it is about is you said you think your sister is tolerant, I think she is accepting.

If she were tolerant should would not have a problem with either case.

Is that so?

It does not have to be about religion or anything else, it is about what tolerance means, and I think many people get it wrong. You do not have to like something you tolerate. If you like something as a mater of fact you are not tolerating it at all, you are accepting it.

-MZ- · « **Reply #29 on:** November 04, 2004, 05:23:27 PM »

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Originally posted by Zippatuh
Cities = democrat = bleeding harts and/or wanting a hand out

Rural = republican = I can do it so should you

A quick snip...
http://www.slate.com/id/2109203/

In decades past, increasing Republican dominance of the House and Senate would have meant more fiscal discipline. But Republicans increasingly dominate the states that are net drains on Federal taxes—the Southern and Great Plains states—while fading in the coastal states that produce a disproportionate share of federal revenue. (It's Republicans, not Democrats, who are sucking on the federal teat.) What Amity Shlaes quaintly identified in today's Financial Times as the "southern culture of tax cutting" has been married to the southern culture of failing to generate wealth and the southern culture of depending on federal largesse. The offspring is an unsightly deficit monster.