The Chronicles of Narcissist

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Wonder if any of the other GOP candidates will say something more forceful than they have to date.

Not going to happen.

 

[Enkhidu]

Well, over the past decade and a half or so, how much of the GOP position is apt to seem reasonable to someone who is educated, and capable of critical thinking? And, how many of their base voters don't have higher education, and are generally spiteful of it? Cutting education would seem a good idea for them, would it not?

Never mind that this is undercutting the development of intellectual capital for the future.

I see this a lot - the idea that the GOP has a monopoly on ideas which can't stand scrutiny is a slap in the face to people that [-]vote republican[/-] don't vote democrat.

Please keep that in mind.

 

[Kramodlog]

It is not a monopoly, it is just profuse.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I see this a lot - the idea that the GOP has a monopoly on ideas which can't stand scrutiny is a slap in the face to people that [-]vote republican[/-] don't vote democrat.

Please keep that in mind.

It's not that the radical left doesn't have crackpot ideas- they most certainly do. But it is rarer for someone on that end of the political spectrum to hold high public office in the USA and get mass media attention for their ideas.

Right now, we have several GOP candidates & governors who have either simply decried and discounted the value higher education- like Santorum- or who have actively slashed their states' funding of public schools and universities by hundreds of millions (per state)- Jindal, Walker and Brownback- in order to pay for Laffer Curve-inspired tax cuts for the upper 1-2%...

Alfred Laffer's theory- as applied to real-world state and federal level economic systems has 30+ years of statistically demonstrable debunking, for a variety of reasons. And yet the GOP continues to preach it as gospel truth.

 

[Ryujin]

An unfortunate by-product of this heavy political polarization in North America is a Left that is quick to criticize a lack of education on the Right, and a Right that demonizes the educated as "The Leftist Elite."

 

[Umbran]

I see this a lot - the idea that the GOP has a monopoly on ideas which can't stand scrutiny is a slap in the face to people that [-]vote republican[/-] don't vote democrat.

Please tell us who said they had such a monopoly. I readily admit that every party out there has some buffoonery.

What I did do, was question how many policies of the GOP stand up to critical thinking - literally, in that I phrased it as a question. You are free to question how many of the policies of any other party would stand up to that thinking. We can have comparison discussions, if you like. I am not a loyalist to any party, so I have nothing to lose in that discussion. You can criticize Democrats seven ways from Sunday, and I won't blink (if you are factually correct in your analysis). I just happen to think the GOP scorecard on this in the 21st century is particularly bad, but if you think they really hold up, then, we can see what we can see.

But, before you do that, also remember that it is entirely valid to think that the number of policies isn't an issue. If a party gets one issue that is very important to you very right, or wrong, that may be the determiner for you. And that's fine.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Trump's campaign slogan ought to be "I don't learn from my mistakes!"

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/donald-trump-issues-statement-mexican-224759825.html

 

[Kramodlog]

Lots of free publicity for Trump.

 

[MechaPilot]

I see this a lot - the idea that the GOP has a monopoly on ideas which can't stand scrutiny is a slap in the face to people that [-]vote republican[/-] don't vote democrat.

Please keep that in mind.

They don't have a monopoly on such ideas, but such ideas from them are frequent and often offensive on their face. Every time I see that little "R" next to someone's name the first thing that pops into my head is the phrase "legitimate rape."

 

[Enkhidu]

Thank you all for the recognition that rotten planks are not solely an aspect of the GOP platform. The echo chamber in this thread was getting a little much.

Very seriously, all I am hoping for this thread (and the experiment) is that people remember the mote and beam (because say what you want about Christianity, but I dare someone to find fault with the hippie carpenter's words on being judgemental).