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Went with my dad to NY. Got off a very busy train and in line to go up a stair case. Meantime, people were trying to push in and go around the line. My dad said to me, I want you to time how long it takes us to get to the top of the stairs. I did, and it was 3 minutes waiting in the line and going up the stairs fairly. Then he said to me, so those people pushing in and cutting people off to get to the top of the stairs saved...what maybe a minute or minute and a half?
So here's my question to debate (because of course I saw similar things all day long in NYC, people trying to cut across the intersection when the lights were turning red, going in the wrong lanes to cut people off), can you tell a person's politics by their values.
Cause when I said the people pushing to the top of the stairs were stupid. He said no, they're republicans.
So here's my question to debate (because of course I saw similar things all day long in NYC, people trying to cut across the intersection when the lights were turning red, going in the wrong lanes to cut people off), can you tell a person's politics by their values.
Cause when I said the people pushing to the top of the stairs were stupid. He said no, they're republicans.
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Your dad makes sense though, Republicans are big pro-capitalists right?
Self-interest and greed are key caputailst tenets so makes sense.......
I wonder if aggressive people who are out for themselves, expect the same from their government? Or do power-hungry, aggressive people go into politics?
For instance, the more religious a person is the more chance they are right wingers. This is an enormous contradiction in terms that seems to go over people's heads. Look at the publishers and readers of the Daily Mail for instance. This is a paper and a readership that claim to be more christian than most. Yet they embrace right wing polices that are profoundly anti-christian: they loathe paying taxes to help the poor, are extremely greedy, and despise foreigners who come here in hope of a better existence with a hatred that beggars belief.
On more subtle detail, you could expect someone who wears a suit on leisure activities to be right wing as well. Apparently lawyers assert people's tolerance and attitudes to issues when studying a jury by looking at their shoes. Someone with comfortable but not so formal shoes is much more likely to be a liberal than someone with more formal but tight and uncomfortable shoes.
As a native NYer, I can tell you that those people were both Republican and Democrats. They were the ones that have something urgent on their mind, and they're working to get it done. Nothing to do with politics, everything to do with the culture of NYC.
Check out who donates to the United Way, the Salvation Army, the Red Cross.
Small token?
Suggest you look at the donations of George Steinbrenner. When is the last time you made a small donation that matched any of his?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/george1.shtml
Im sure plenty of criminals give extensively to charities. A good way to paint themselves as magnanimous whilst carrying on with their corruption.
That point being that many give to charities to greater or lesser degrees, which says nothing about their ethics or moral code in all other areas.
What we have above is a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black!
when I get pregnant I will expect people seeing me in my heavily pregnant state to offer me a seat and if they don't I WILL make a fuss. Some people are just too rude...and I guess it may reflect their politics.
You either care about being part of society or you don't. some twat who leaps on the train infront of all the people who were waiting in line is probably more likely to not give a shit about other peoples suffering.
(italy in ten years ago)
a renault 4 was left wing, a volkswagen golf was right wing
marijuana was left wing, cocaine was right wing
AS ROMA was left wing, SS LAZIO was right wing,
..etc this sort of nonsense, I'm afraid it all ends up with your financial situations (and some education) as you said