A Usenet persona calling itself Larry C wrote:

The reason that I assert that the the the liberal left has lost touch
with America is that they have consisitantly lost ground in recent
elections to the Republic/moderate/right. That's just simple math, look
at the makeup of Congress, the Governorships of the states, and the
trend in memberships in the state legislatures. I live in a state that
is HEAVILY democratic, to the tune of 3 to 1, yet we now have a
Republican legislature and governor. Manipulated the Media? The media
I saw were all heavily in favor of Kerry.

Want to know why this is happening, and will only continue to happen?

It's because lefty liberals are (not) breeding themselves into extinction.

When liberals resolve to not have kids in order to save the planet, where is
the next generation of lefty liberal tree-huggers going to come from and
who's going to inculcate them into socialist dogma so they can take over the
world?

Conservatives, on the other hand, view children as a positive benefit to
society and they like making babies, who they then raise as conservatives,
who then vote the increasingly endangered liberal/socialists out of office.

It's the essence of "hoist on their own petard" for the liberals.


But to blame this swing on "fundamentalist christians" is stereotyping
and scapegoating, frankly it sounds like a bunch of Nazis blaming all
their troubles on the Jews, or the Klan on the Blacks.

Indeed. Particularly when they identify anyone who holds any sort of
religious Christian belief as "The Moral Majority" or the "Religious Right"
or "fundamentalist Christians."

I'm none of the above, but even I know that, for example, the Catholic
church (members of which comprise more than 20% of the US population...some
65 million citizens) is just about evenly split these days between liberals
and conservatives when it comes to politics.

Moyer
stated that there is a anti environmental element in the Protestant
Christian Religion, I say that it is absolute bull****.

I agree. He's a hack.

I don't see
armies of Christans wacking down trees to hurry the END. I've had to
sit through many a sermon in my day, from Catholic to Pentecostal, and
I have never heard anything like that from any of the pulpits. Do the
"Christians" vote a more conservative social value than espoused by the
Democratic Party? Yes, but mainly on issues like abortion and gay
marriage. But this is America and they do have the right to speak and
vote for what they believe whether you agree with them or not.

Well put.


Frankly, I find the idea that since my guy didn't win, the people that
supported the winner are stupid and gullible as elitist at best. It's a
big country out there and people have a lot of different priorities on
why they vote, many may not be yours. But it's pretty evident from
recent elections that the Republicans have presented a program more to
their liking than the Democrats.


Yup. Democrats have radicalized their way right out of the public favor.
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