Why do liberals here on Y!A believe, that we republicans are all "holly-rollers"?

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Answer 1

i'm married to a staunch republican conservative & he hasn't been to church in all these years we've been together. now on the other hand, i go - but i'm still constantly called names and as being against god, etc on y/a. so there ya have it.

Answer 2

Is a holly-roller a holy-roller during the Christmas season?

Personally, I don't think that all Republicans are fundamentalist Christians, but I think that they are generally a lot more concerned about what consenting adults are up to than they ought to be.

In a country where the children are getting progressively more poorly educated, more poorly cared for medically, and less well-nourished, the Republicans dwell on the "problem" of gay marriage.

Internationally, our image is defined by Abu Ghraib and a refusal to join all other developed nations in the global warming treaty, and yet the Republicans dwell on the "problem" of public schools teaching evolution.

Holly-rollers? If that's what we think of you, you have only yourselves to blame.

Answer 3

Socrates said, Truth is that which is harmonious with consistency.

Consistently Republicans display their holy Roller roots.

Therefor it is a truth that you are of this ilk.

Answer 4

Government schools

Answer 5

Because Republicans refer back to God and Jesus several times. They are generally against abortion and gay marriage, both are issues that the Christians are against. I read in a magazine once that Republicans praise God and that he created America to be the best country.

I'm not a Republican, I'm just expressing my opinion and regurgitating what I've heard.

Answer 6

It is often said that the Republican Party consists of
the super-rich and the super-stupid. Holy-rollers
belong to the latter group.

The essence of the political left is labor. The
right-wing is the rentier (those who make their living
off of rents, royalties, bond interest and dividend
payments). Those terms and definitions came out of the
era of the French Revolution. This can be easily
understood as the capitalist (right-wing) gets richer
and richer when the workers (left-wing) toil harder
and harder for less and less.

The essence of the right-wing is the wealthy-elite and
this wealthy-elite has a significant problem in any
type of democratic society. That problem is that they
are a tiny, tiny minority. They reconcile this problem
by confusing a portion of the working class left and
then convincing those confused members to vote against
their own best interests. I like to refer to these
confused people as Archie Bunkers. Archie Bunker was a
flag-waving, right-wing Republican who was getting his
brains beat in by right-wing capitalism.

The Republican Party is hardly a party of decency.
Bush is the most prolific killer in our generation.
Bush, Limbaugh and other highly visible right-wingers
have a history of drug and alcohol abuse. Giuliani and
others have severe "family-values" issues. And
certainly, you must have noticed all of the gay sex
scandals in the Republican Party. In fact, those kinds
of sex scandals are not a new occurrence. They go back
decades. Look up the Franklin Sex Scandal and you'll
find that it goes all the way to the Reagan/Bush White
House.

The right-wing only embraces select social issues when
they can be used to split the left. Reagan and Bush
were advocates of abortion early in their political
careers. Reagan promoted one of the friendliest
abortion bills in the nation when he was governor of
California. The feeling among the right-wing at that
time was that they wanted to get women off of the
welfare rolls and they believed that abortion helped
to accomplish that desire. They only became
anti-abortion when they realized that it could be used
to split the left.

There are no right-wing governments anywhere in the
world that promote citizen ownership of guns. The
right-wing governments see an armed citizenry as a
threat to their own dominance of society. If the
public here were to become revolutionary-minded, one
would quickly see the right-wing clamp down on public
ownership of guns.

The right-wing has never promoted any true
life-affirming policies. In fact, it was the
right-wing that fought tooth and nail against those
who sought to outlaw child labor in this country. It
was the right-wing that fought tooth and nail against
those seeking to form labor unions. It was the
right-wing that fought tooth and nail against the 8
hour work day. It was the right-wing that fought tooth
and nail against minimum wage laws. It was the
right-wing that fought tooth and nail against women
suffrage. It was the right-wing that fought tooth and
nail against civil rights. These were all liberal
initiatives that were only won after tremendous
struggle against the political right-wing. In fact,
ALL life-affirming policies that have ever been passed
were advanced by the political left.

Liberals are those members of society who embrace
capitalism (which is the essence of what separates
them from socialists) but also believe in fair wages,
environmental protection laws, civil rights laws,
work-place safety laws, regulation of industry and so
on. Since a liberal, by definition, is tolerant, they
can't simply embrace and abandon social issues on a
whim like the right-wing has done. Liberals embrace a
live and let live philosophy that right-wing
politicians are able to take advantage of in their
effort to confuse the less political savvy members of
the underclass.

Socialists believe that capitalism is completely
incompatible with a decent society. The great Albert
Einstein explains why in his essay "Why Socialism."
Here's the link:

http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.htm

" . . . nowhere have we really overcome what Thorstein
Veblen called "the predatory phase" of human
development. . . . the real purpose of socialism is
precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory
phase of human development." -- Albert Einstein

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis

Answer 7

I don't.

One of my best friends is an atheist Republican.

But the extreme religious right is a major part of the Republican constituency, and they wield an enormous amount of influence on the direction of the party as a whole. That much is simply undeniable.

Answer 8

Because "libs" are mindless zombies who believe everything they read and hear. Course if the only truth you knew came from the lips of Hilary, CNN, New York Times and MSNBC and crossword puzzles you would be a mindless Zombie BOT too!

Answer 9

Where's FROGGY (part of the avatar picture tv show - to those who dont know),
not all just the majority!
by the way, it's HOLY

Answer 10

We don't think that. We just think your politicians allow themselves to be led around by the nose by the "holly-rollers" (sic).