Are Republican Party policies the root cause of nearly all of our problems?

[RFayette]

They weren't the ones (the conservative Republicans you seem to be referring to) who sanctioned and continued to reaffirm the legal slaughter of 50 million unborn children, so no, at least from a pro life paradigm.  Additionally, there are a lot of issues in blue-state urban cores that Republicans haven't touched for decades.  Not to mention the fact that you never stated an actual reason why social liberalism is better, only that social conservatism is "backward."  As far as economics goes, that's an ongoing debate, but I find the incredibly simplistic "Socially liberal = good" mantra pretty unsettling.

If you want to see a serious, socially conservative perspective on morality and political issues, check out Dr. James White, my favorite theologian.

[RFayette]

One thing that's an interesting phenomenon is that hard-core liberals tend to feel the nation's been drifting to the right since 1980 and lament SCOTUS decisions like Citizens United, RTW, property tax caps, etc. while hard-core conservative make similar arguments but cite gay marriage, abortion (since 1973), profanity/pornography, etc.  Both sides tend to see the other as the issue, though conservatism has increasingly become based on social issues, hence a lot of the demographic changes we've been seeing in voting. 

It's funny, I've moved in just about the exact opposite direction of RR1997 since joining Atlas, though this is mainly a function of leaving high school as well as the intake of tons of country music and Calvinist (and general conservative Protestant) theology videos and articles.   

[RFayette]

If one truly believes the thread title (or the mirror of it) they have no business discussing politics in mixed company.  How could a political party that doesn't control the vast majority of the political power in a country be the root cause of nearly all it's problems?

Basically, RR-997 is saying there is no debate.  Yes there is, and it's why we have these subfora!  I just am annoyed by how he just glibly dismissed social consevatism using the mantra of progress.  Progress to where?   That's an important issue!


This is why we can't just say things with no qualifiers.

[RFayette]

     No, and it takes a pretty simplistic worldview to say yes. It's not hard to think of problems caused by Democratic Party policies, but that also isn't a game worth playing.

Very true.  Plus, how we define a "problem" is also going to affect someone's answer to this question.  I believe the fact that 50 million abortions have occurred since Roe v. Wade is a pretty big problem, but I suspect RR1997 does not.  This paradigm difference would cause our political calculus to be different when weighing the two parties. 

[RFayette]

The results of this poll officially debunks the myth that Atlas is a left-wing forum.

The Atlas Republican Party demands that you be stripped of your avatar at once with a dishonorable discharge.

Yup.  Depart from us, ye of little conservatism.