Democrats are unpatriotic!

MB, you have a worldview that is practically hermetically sealed.

Withint that worldview, anyone who disagrees with you on any point politically is "far to the left".

Also within that worldview, anyone who is "far to the left" is automatically "unpatriotic".

All of this you have arrived at, not through evidence, but through assumptions and some rather nasty generalizations.

Evidence won't sway your opinion, because you didn't arrive at your worldview through evidence in the first place. In fact, from what you're posting, it's pretty plain you scorn evidence in favor of "belief".

I really don't care if you persist in living in an echo chamber where your beliefs are never challenged.

But when you put them out in the public as "fact", you're going to get called on it.

Left and Right are not measures of patriotism or love of country, no matter how much you want to believe them to be. They are not a continium of good and evil, either. A person's position on say, tax cuts, does not define everything about them as a person. Real life is simply not that black and white.

Maybe it isn't that Dems are unpatriotic, just that they have better things to do than go to parades celebrating veterans, er, baby killers.
Like going to Yoga class?
Or visiting Whole Foods?
Or meditating?

SS109 wrote: Maybe it isn't that Dems are unpatriotic, just that they have better things to do than go to parades celebrating veterans, er, baby killers.
Like going to Yoga class?
Or visiting Whole Foods?
Or meditating?

Some of you could use a little meditating. :Whistle

Or mediating? Or medicating?

The methodology for the study is interesting in and of itself. These researchers used weather data, specifically rainfall, from 1920 through 1990 as the proxy for participating/not participating in July 4th celebrations. What they found is that having 1 July 4th without rain before the age of 18:

1.increases the likelihood of identifying as a Republican at age 40 by 2%;
2.increases the share of people voting for the Republican candidate at age 40 by 4%;
3.increases the share of people turning out to vote at age 40 by 0.9%.

“We were surprised to find that childhood experiences of Fourth July celebrations could have such persistent effects. The evidence suggests that important childhood events can have a permanent impact on political beliefs and behavior and that Fourth of July celebrations in the US affect the nation’s political landscape,” the researchers conclude.

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/06/30/harvard-kennedy-school-kids-who-attend-july-4th-celebrations-more-likely-to-be-republican/

So when it rains on the 4th of July we get more Democrats?? rofllol rofllol

Here's a link to the actual study.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/dyanagi/Research/FourthOfJuly.pdf

major bean wrote: Then you think that Harvard has it all wrong?

What about LJ saying that the Constitution is of no import in our "modern" world?

That's not what I said... I said PS's version of it is of no import in the modern world, because he continues to insist that the "Constitution" is defined by the Federalist Papers, and it's not... It's defined by the Supreme Court and Congress' decisions for the last 230 years.

God, get your head out of your a** and pay attention...

Photo-fish wrote: Here's a link to the actual study.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/dyanagi/Research/FourthOfJuly.pdf

The study also shows that the trend (if there is one) is shrinking. From page 19:

We detect a similar pattern as the impact of Fourth of July on voting favors the Republicans less for younger cohorts. For those cohorts born in 1970 and later, there is no Republican Fourth of July “bias”.

In fact Figure 8 on page 30 seems to suggest there is more of a Democrat Fourth of July "bias" for those born after 1970. So using MB's logic, Democrats under age 40 are more patriotic!

But seriously, I wonder what prompted this report, and who paid for it? Seems like a waste of time to me. The percentages seem so low that I'd think they'd be within any margin of error.

major bean wrote:

chickaree wrote: This kind of post is unpatriotic.

That is quite a leap. How is this post "unpatriotic"? It does not smear the founding fathers, our Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary veterans, or anything else. How is it unpatriotic to expose (exose) the liberals for their hatred of our country and its founding principles?

Not a leap at all. The United States of America is more than a land mass, more than a collection of documents. First and foremost it is it's citizens. Conservatives and liberals, men and women, all religions, creeds and colors. To disparage one group is to disparage all. yes, your post is unpatriotic in my mind.

You all seem to forget that major bean posts as a troll....it doesn't matter to him if what he posts is true or not....only if it gives him the opportunity to bash liberals and get them angry/annoyed enough to respond.