Falterfire said:
If you've been through the country, you'll acknowledge that wherever you go, people are pretty much people: Mostly normal, sane people you wouldn't mind spending an afternoon with. Keeping that in mind, remember that a large percentage of people in certain areas support the Republican party.
You have chosen to instantly dismiss every single person in the Republican party as a idiotic barely functioning simpleton. This means that you are taking the stance that automatically Republican=Stupid. You are instantly dismissing an entire, millions strong (Not hyperbole: See election results) party as ignorant rednecks.
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On that note: I am a Republican, and I am an atheist, and I support gay rights. Aren't stereotypes counterproductive?
I just want to jump in here and ask, if you are indeed an atheist and support gay rights, why on earth do you support the Republican party? It's all very well to criticise people for stereotyping, but think for a second: you are personally going out there and saying that you support the people who, in every news article I see on the topic, are progressively only in the sense that they are seeking new ways to be completely anti social, selfish and retarded. You can't then turn around and say 'don't judge me by what my favourite political party believes in!' because you have announced that you believe in it too, by proxy of supporting them in their bid to lead the country.
It is ENTIRELY legitimate to make judgements about people based on their support of a political party. No-one makes you sign up to support these people - to do so is an affirmation that what they say speaks for what you believe in.
That's one of the reasons I'm quite unlikely to vote in the next UK elections - the Conservatives what to sell the country to the highest bidder and pocket the proceeds - to hell with anyone not in their club; the Lib Dems slipped in on broken pledges, made a pact with the Devil, and now think that they can retain support on more promises to not carry on doing what they've spent the last two years doing, and Labour have suddenly realised that for ten years they did fuck all, and in retrospect undoing some of the damage from the last Conservative government would have been a better idea than getting rid of all the money - and naturally, now they'll "pledge" to sort it all out. We've seen where that gets the electorate...
Rant aside, if you don't want to be tarred with the same brush, doing lean on their wall (or however that metaphor works out...)
