Voted "Other." Leaving aside the fact that to define either party by a single characteristic is a gross oversimplification of a complex phenomenon. In fact, American political parties are not ideological parties as you tend to see in Europe. Rather they are lose knit coalitions of regional, religious, ethnic, racial, income and other groups that have come together in part by common interests and in part by historical accident.
In the case of the GOP, it is a coalition made up of classical liberals - which Americans call conservatives, libertarians, small and medium sized business, religious and social traditionalists, lower middle and upper middle income earners, farmers, rural and exurban populations, older voters, the South, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountain West and the state of Alaska, to name the most prominent groups.
On the Democratic side you get, ethnic and religious minorities, middle and high income wage earners, big business and entertainment industries, urban and inner suburban votes, radical liberals - which Americans call liberals. (Note, the term "radical" here does not mean as Americans use it, i. e. "extremist," but rather as the ancient Greeks used the term, meaning "to the root of.") The northeast, the mid-Atlantic, the Pacific coast and the state of Hawaii.
This is how you get a Republican Party that runs from Ted Cruz at one end to Susan Collin at the other. This is how you get a Democratic Party that runs from Joe Manchin at one end to Elizabeth Warren at the other.
Quite simply, party identification is not about ideological identity. It is about where in the country is being discussed, about class and racial breakdowns and much else.
Indeed, even this is changing. The description I provided of the parties above is already in transition - and indeed, this is part of the reason why politics is so chaotic at the moment.
The lower middle class blue collar voters that are now at the heart of the Trump coalition were, until VERY recently, the heart and soul of the Democratic party. The party of the "working man" and the New Deal. Now, the higher the income level, the more likely the person voted Democrat.
Ditto with age. In the 1980s, the 18 to 25 year old demographic was Reagan's best. The 65 and older set, his worst. Now it is completely the reverse, and even then, the elderly seem less enthralled with Trump than they were four years ago. Though still generally more favorable than their 18 to 25 year old children.
In terms of regions. As late as the early 1960s, the "Solid South" was solidly Democratic. Then it became solidly Republican, and now states like Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina are sometimes even battleground states. Ditto, states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin - once so solidly blue collar Democrat look set to tilt GOP.
Indeed, fun fact, over 400 counties that voted twice for Mr. Obama switched in the space of one four year period, to vote for Mr. Trump. Thus to this day that Mrs. Clinton is careening about the country explaining to anyone who will listen why she really won - or not - in 2016.
The differences then vary. In West Virginia, Democrats are the old blue collar coalition. Working the mines, church going, traditional and patriotic. In New York, they are quite liberal, likely racial or religious minorities - though not likely very likely to practice their religion through regular attendance at weekly services - and more likely to work in the tech or service sector.
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Kinda depends on the type of republican. Same with they type of democrats. Center left democrats and center right do give to charity they do set up charities far right tends to donate a lot more than far left. There's a lot of religious Christian’s and Jews on the far right. Christian’s and Jews tend to give a lot of money to charity or a random homeless guy on the streets. I’m far right myself I’ll give money to homeless and charity like the alliance of Christian’s and Jews who are working on getting Christian’s and Jews out of Ukraine due to the war. Far left doesn’t tend to give to charity or the homeless. Because they think it’s the government’s job to help them, far right believes it’s important for people to rely on there local communities families and churches to help them out (and local governments but we don’t think you should rely on government).
I will say when you are giving to the homeless from personal experience 99.99% of people are reasonable from personal experiences. I was in seattle a few years ago around 2017 early 2018. There was a homeless vet with 1 leg in a wheel chair. I was stopped at a red light with about 3 or 4 cars behind me, I decided to try to help they guy out by giving him a joint a half a pack of cigarettes and 20. I was surprised no one honked at me when the light turned green they were patient because I think they realize that I was trying to help a guy out who was homeless. So I think most people both left and right want to help people we just have different means of going about it.
Yes as much as the democrats are. Don't be fooled. Both parties are opposite sides of the same coin.
Take a look at democrat run cities like San Francisco. The city has any amount of problems such as crime, homelessness, sanitation, unemployment, failing schools, bankrupt city and businesses like target and wallmart shutting stores down because shoplifting is costing them too much and what do the politicians in charge do to address any of it? Reparations for every black person to the tune of $3 million per head, defend the police, make it a sanctuary city, create the conditions for homelessness while giving the homeless just enough bread to survive, transsexual lessons in classrooms and libraries...
It's the same in most democrat run cities. Democrat policies now put money into the hands of corporations who appear woke like Disney.
u All political parties are selfish.
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That's a pretty broad statement. In what way are Republicans selfish?
Democrats are the party of welfare and entitlement. I'd call that selfish. Make one group of people work to pay for another group to sit on their asses all day and do nothing.
I voted Other because I'd not say "very' but I'd write I guess, in my own fair free opinion, selfish they could have a fair few selfish policies and fair few selfish followers who want or believe or thrive on those selfish policies of the party. Whether the party is very selfish or the followers are whom are very selfish, remains a mystery 😮
Most people are selfish in some way. Still, the R's generally do not define generosity as the taking of money by threat of violence from taxpayers in order to buy the votes of others, which is what most elected D's do.
Both parties are equally selfish in their own ways.
Politicians are all self serving crooks. The differenc is that democrats don't even have to hide it anymore
I see the leaders of the party as selfish bellends but I see the everyday regular joe republican as a played, very trick able person
Same shit
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