On Nov 12, 2009, at 12:49 PM, SA wrote:
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> First of all, Doug already posted numbers showing that party ID is a
> good predictor of people's attitudes on a wide range of political
> issues. Second of all, there is obviously no contradiction at all
> between the acquisition of partisan ID from parents and the ability
> of partisan ID to predict worldview, since people also get their
> worldview from their parents often.
This does tell us something--but something that everybody knows. Specifically that the Repugnicons and Dumbocrats each have their respective electoral clientele (their "core supporters") who they pacify with rhetoric while bidding for votes in "the middle" (of the capitalist consensus). But among professed leftists voting behavior does indicate something--namely; which "leftists" are shamefaced reformists who grumble but then vote for a Kerry or an Obama as some sort of lesser evil, and which ones recognize that destruction of the Dumbocrats as a party is the absolute precondition for the emergence of a meaningful political Left in the USA.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos