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Re: TAPS. - that is an interesting perspective
After studying your graph again and considering from my parents point of view (as I knew them), the one point they would have had the most trouble with would have been the "married three times" line. Dad was always of the opinion that if you can't manage yourself and your own household, how could you possibly lead the government of a country.
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TAPS.
on March 13, 2012 at 3:17 PM
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WileyJohn - it's the "money" aspect that is really astonishing
The electoral process is such in our socieities that none but the wealthy, or those who can enlist the backing of the wealthy, need apply.
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gomedome
on March 13, 2012 at 6:38 AM
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EX_TURPI - concerning the black and catholic phobias
I guess we can accredit the dissolution of these collective mindsets to the long evolving civil rights movement and the JFK presidency respectively. You would think that the other "phobias" will also eventually dissolve but probably not before a long and arduous process.
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gomedome
on March 13, 2012 at 6:34 AM
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TAPS. - that is an interesting perspective
How did that graph look in the years when the polling first began (during your parent's time)? If nothing else it would clearly indicate progress in accepting the diversity which has developed in our societies since that time.
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gomedome
on March 13, 2012 at 6:28 AM
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Kabu - Re: It is supposed to although I wonder sometimes. - reply #2
In that regard I completely agree, especially in having a similar experience myself. My religious background and especially my schooling at the hands of some pretty serious nutcases also influenced my thinking for years to come.
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gomedome
on March 13, 2012 at 6:24 AM
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Gomedome
I find it interesting that neither an evangelical or protestant isn't on there but then there are none of those in the running perhaps. I do think education would add some flavour to the vote but then I think if I was educated I would hate to spend my time on such a money propelled endeavour.
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WileyJohn
on March 12, 2012 at 9:04 PM
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Of course the Catholic and Black phobia are over. It may be a little while before one of the other phobias hits the dust. Yet it will. The maturity of the country's perspective will guarantee that.
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EX_TURPI
on March 12, 2012 at 7:30 PM
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The human mind was "designed" to be a fertile field in which seeds would grow. I used quotes for "designed" because I am aware that not everyone would accept that teaching. Nevertheless, it is a place where some seed of learning is going to take hold and grow and form a receptive youngun into an active/reactive adult. Of course education is going to open ones mind to many things one would not think of without education whether it is elementary education or higher learning or continued education or reading on one's own. How could it not make a difference in voting, when it makes a difference in everything else?
Your graph is very interesting. I found myself considering how my parents would have fit into that survey with their voting years being circa 1925 - 1988.
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TAPS.
on March 12, 2012 at 6:19 PM
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Re: Kabu - Re: It is supposed to although I wonder sometimes. Schools can also
I was just thinking the other day how the religious school that I myself attended as a teenager influenced my thinking for many years. Of course once a person starts to question one thing....like being forced into a Union in order to attend a University, then all and everything is open to a mind to be questioned.
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Kabu
on March 12, 2012 at 5:08 PM
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Kabu - Re: It is supposed to although I wonder sometimes. Schools can also
The one safeguard we have against this is the voting age, younger students up until senior high school years would be relatively immune to this type of influence. But post secondary institutions, religious congregations or enclaves and even some membership groups (trade unions come to mind) are fertile ground for this type of influence. I would go as far as to suggest that these realities are the biggest single reason we see so much declaration of faith amongst the candidates in the election campaigns of some countries.
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gomedome
on March 12, 2012 at 12:43 PM
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Xeno-x - Re: knowledge of a world beyond the narrow, provincial one
That is true. The educational experience, especially post secondary, conditions an individual to inquire and utilize methods of discerment that an uneducated person may never develop.
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gomedome
on March 12, 2012 at 12:36 PM
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It is supposed to although I wonder sometimes. Schools can also
influence students with ideology agendas that the teachers /profs. have an interest in....Or the establishment itself.....i was sort of thinking of places where a strict regime or religion rules the roost.
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Kabu
on March 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM
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knowledge of a world beyond the narrow, provincial one
that a lot of people experience.
it is not only in politics, but other matters, unfortunately -- national and world affairs -- the less one knows, the less one tends to accept something beyond a narrow perspective
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Xeno-x
on March 12, 2012 at 10:37 AM
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