Why are people that identify themselves as a voter of a political party not willing to hear the other side?

Question

How can anyone come to an informed decision about the candidate that they are going to vote for, if they are not willing to hear both sides of the debate? They may learn something, change their mind, or be more committed to the political party that they belong to! I have learned so much more by listening to both sides, and if you do, you will find more similarities than differences

Answer 1

there is a fine line between a cat and dog

Answer 2

I totally agree with you. People that are unwilling to listen to the other side and completely agree with their party on all issues are tools. When I discuss politics with people they have a hard time accepting my positions because I do not subscribe to the standard party mantra's. If for example ... I am conservative on some issues..liberal on others. I am Pro Life across the board.. I am against Abortions as well as being for the preservation of turtle eggs. I am Anti War ... I am a Peace activist. I am Green but I understand the necessity and security issues involving oil, but I also disagree with the way our current Governments oligarchic practices concerning big corporations and the way they are allowed to manipulate the system in the guise of free markets. We as a people should have had the opportunity to drive electric cars a long time ago.

Answer 3

I don't have an issue with that, other than I don't hear a debate from the other side. Nasty, racist, snide remarks perhaps, but little in the issues.

I find the party similarity argument a bogus one as that is not my vision of what I would want. The truth is, there is no similarity other than we have politicians who get caught up into the same greed/corporate money welfare machines as everyone else, but that is not always the case.

I can find nothing in the party of hate that I can even come close to agreeing with, and trust me, I check out every single one of their "facts"! I would call them more the regurgitation of Fox news. I really don't think most of them can think!

I'll keep listenining hoping someday the Republicans, who I think have many fine people, hoping they will seaver the neocon element of their party, who are nothing more than Fascists, before it destroys them!

I love to be here because I learn a lot as well. I try hard to find my responses from mainstream sources that don't have an idealogical bent. And obviously, I am unable to divorce my life experiences: a son of a career Army officer who served in WW II, Korea and Vietnam, myself 8 years active with 2 tours in Korea and one in Vietnam. Stationed at Ft Benning during the race riots in a strac unit on Sand Hill who was the response division for the riotsin our ares. the 101st had Little Rock). I went to nursing school, have a BS in Social work GPA 3.85) and started a graduate program twice, finishing a year in each. One was in Counseling, the other in Community Economics in a graduate MBA program!. I have lived the lies of LBJ, I was in the field when Kennedy was assassinated training in the woods of Georgia, I have been through the terrible ending of the lives at Kent State, and the terrible manner in which we withdrew from a country, leaving it to the communist to murder a million people! The terrible treatment our troops got at home and from the VA, I have been thriugh Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon (Vietnam/Watergate),Ford, Carter, Reagan (Lebanon, Iran/contra- selling arms to our enemy), Bush, Clinton and Bush! I see a clear difference in the parties! One party I want no part of and I have decades of experience with bothI

I am not bragging. I am just telling you where I am coming from!

Answer 4

I am not sure, but you have to understand how hard it was for me to change my political perspectives after I started my second college life! Political Science courses would offer those that do not understand the entire picture of politics a second thought of how things happen and why. I used to be a hardliner democrat, but with what I have learned I am ANYTHING but rock hard for ANY political party. Why? Because a party's one and ONLY job is to get candidates elected; they will tell voters anything to allow their candidate to gain favor with those that vote.
BEFORE one marks his/her ballot, they must do research into each and every candidate from each and every party they represent. America can no longer elect candidates to public office that have a blind eye and a deaf ear to their constituents. In fact, lobbying and special interest groups and their work must be stopped and ALL contributions to various political campaigns must be returned by the candidates that benefited from their contributions.
As a citizen, I want the elected officeholders to listen and respond to me - but right now they don't. Why must our elections be so very crooked? Our Founding Fathers would turn in their graves if they knew what their country turned into - and always in the name of a dollar!

Answer 5

I too have been questioning approximately changing my voter registration to unaffiliated. i've got been registered interior the comparable social gathering because of the fact i began out balloting interior the 60's. i've got continually supported applicants that i think of are the main powerfuble. i've got on no account enable social gathering association effect my judgements interior the balloting sales area.

Answer 6

Because people that have committed themselves to one party or the other have already closed the doors of their mind to other ways of thinking.

Answer 7

I'm listening to ALL candidates with an open mind but I havn't yet heard anything from any Democratic candidate that would cause me to change my mind. Seems like there major platform remains 'no solutions - bash Bush. Just doesn't cut it for me.

The lies, unfulfilled promises and arrogance of Nancy Pelosi, et al, has certainly not made me more inclined to believe anything they say.

Answer 8

Because the sicko Republicans want to try to justify their endless forray into Iraq and I get sick and want to vomit all over them.

Answer 9

because they dont want to be influenced by the other side