Why rural voters don’t vote Democratic anymore

[Warren Dew]

(12-03-2016, 08:40 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(12-03-2016, 08:14 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(12-03-2016, 07:25 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(12-03-2016, 07:18 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: You think "don't approve of gun prohibition" an "agenda"?  Gun prohibition is a perfect example of an imposed solution of the kind Galen is talking about.

So it is, but it is no more or no less an agenda on one side than the other.  Strong feelings and attempts at strong actions are going both ways.  I sort of expect extreme partisans to think the other side is abusing government power and forcing their culture on the other half of the culture while one's own side is saintly and innocent in that regard.  I don't buy that either faction will back off the conflict, will stop pushing the other.

How do you think gun rights people are going to use government to impose their culture?  They're going to pass laws requiring everyone to go to the shooting range every week, and go hunting once a year?  That doesn't sound very likely to me.

I'm trying to push rights over one culture forcing the other.  I anticipate Fundamentalists trying to close every women's health clinic they can, and for gun prohibitionists to restrict whatever types of weapons they can.  Right now, neither group is getting very far, which I think is a good thing.  This doesn't mean there aren't folk out there from both cultures looking for a chance.

Please don't interpret my paragraph above as speaking to only one issue.

How can I not, when your response was to a statement from me that was very clearly about only one issue?

The religious right and the atheist left would no doubt each love to use government to force their views on each other.  However, the gun issue doesn't work the same way, which is why I highlighted it. On the gun issue, there really is an agenda only on one side.