From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fox News, we distort, you comply. Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:17:12 -0800 (PST)
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your main interest, as far as I can tell, is > international affairs, and the > judicious use of American strength in the world. > You feel that the > Republican party best represents your main > interests. > > Dan M.
Yes, but that's a conflation of two different types of interest. I am intellectually interested in that, but it's not necessarily in my interest. Bob seems to believe that Republicans vote in their selfish interest, while Democrats, I suppose do not. I actually think that's a fairly shallow model for the way people vote for either party (it would be hard to explain my voting patters as a product of self-interest, for example, except in the broadest of possible conceptions) but I certainly don't think that there's any difference in self-interested voting patterns between the two parties.
While I believe you may be right about voting patterns, I have to ask: what about political maneuvering?
I that think as a result of intense Republican political machinations over the last decade, what you are describing is in fact a common perception amongst Democrats (and some middle-of-the-road Republicans). After watching the Clinton impeachment trial, the voting district fiasco in Texas, the Gingrich gov't shutdown, the recall in California and the most recent Senate filibuster, I don't think it's an unreasonable conclusion for people to draw, either. No matter what excuses are given to the contrary, Republican political maneuvering on a state and national level is almost always centered at increasing and solidifying their own power base.
And Democrats don't?
-- Ronn! :)
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