klamath
11-05-2008, 04:59 PM
There are basically 4 branches of the republican party.
Neocons; military hawks and American empire building. Don't care much about anything else except power and any means to get it.
Christian Right; Generally fiscally conservative, Knee jerk patriots (don't ever criticize America, right or wrong.), Anti abortion, Anti gay rights, fear of Muslims, biblical love for Israel, generally for small government except for Abortion, gay rights and Porn.
Country club Republicans; Somewhat fiscally conservative more socially liberal. Most likely to promote corporate welfare and government help for business.
Libertarian Republicans. Look up RP's issues.
Democratic Party branches.
Libertarian Democrat. Fiscally conservative, socially liberal. May live a Christian moral lifestyle but can't stand the in your face hypocrisy and dogma of the Christian Right.
Blue Collar Democrats; Strong union, direct opposition historically to the Country Club republicans, can have some strong Redneck tendencies. Agrees with government aid programs for the working man but looks down on direct welfare.
Elitist Democrats. Looks to government to fix all human problems and believes themselves to be highly educated and enlightened and have a very elitist mentality of knowing what is best for everyone. Includes European style socialists that looks to Europe for answers to American problems. Very strong environmentalists
Whether a coalition can be built from these branches is hard to tell because all the issues don't hold the same weight. For example a libertarian Republican might be able to build strong ties to the less radical Christian Right but hang up on unilateral biblical support for Israel, as I think we saw with Huckabee and RP supporters.
My hope is we can build a coalition between the libertarian Democrats, Christian Rightists, Libertarian Republicans, Blue Collar Democrats.
If the Libertarian Democrats and the Libertarian Republicans can cancel out the Biblical Israel support, and social policy legislation from Washington of the Christian Right and the elimination of the Country club Republicans could bring in the Blue collar Democrats with the libertarian R's and D's tempering the redneck tendancies. The Blue Collar Democrats might be enticed into giving up government aid programs when they see the corporate aid Country Club Republicans are gone.
Just some thoughts to ponder.
Neocons; military hawks and American empire building. Don't care much about anything else except power and any means to get it.
Christian Right; Generally fiscally conservative, Knee jerk patriots (don't ever criticize America, right or wrong.), Anti abortion, Anti gay rights, fear of Muslims, biblical love for Israel, generally for small government except for Abortion, gay rights and Porn.
Country club Republicans; Somewhat fiscally conservative more socially liberal. Most likely to promote corporate welfare and government help for business.
Libertarian Republicans. Look up RP's issues.
Democratic Party branches.
Libertarian Democrat. Fiscally conservative, socially liberal. May live a Christian moral lifestyle but can't stand the in your face hypocrisy and dogma of the Christian Right.
Blue Collar Democrats; Strong union, direct opposition historically to the Country Club republicans, can have some strong Redneck tendencies. Agrees with government aid programs for the working man but looks down on direct welfare.
Elitist Democrats. Looks to government to fix all human problems and believes themselves to be highly educated and enlightened and have a very elitist mentality of knowing what is best for everyone. Includes European style socialists that looks to Europe for answers to American problems. Very strong environmentalists
Whether a coalition can be built from these branches is hard to tell because all the issues don't hold the same weight. For example a libertarian Republican might be able to build strong ties to the less radical Christian Right but hang up on unilateral biblical support for Israel, as I think we saw with Huckabee and RP supporters.
My hope is we can build a coalition between the libertarian Democrats, Christian Rightists, Libertarian Republicans, Blue Collar Democrats.
If the Libertarian Democrats and the Libertarian Republicans can cancel out the Biblical Israel support, and social policy legislation from Washington of the Christian Right and the elimination of the Country club Republicans could bring in the Blue collar Democrats with the libertarian R's and D's tempering the redneck tendancies. The Blue Collar Democrats might be enticed into giving up government aid programs when they see the corporate aid Country Club Republicans are gone.
Just some thoughts to ponder.