POLL: How many have talked to righties who hate corporations?

[yurbud]

I've had the same conversation a couple of times with my dad, who although not religious, is otherwise the perfect republican: racist, zenophobic, angry, and very law and order oriented.

The one thing we consistently agree on though is that the influence of big business is corrupting our politics, that they are allowed to break laws at will, change them to their liking, drive our foreign policy, and demand trade agreements that hurt US workers.

But he sees the Dems as just as bad as the GOP, and frankly, the out-spoken critics are in the minority, and often stomped on if they get too effective like Howard Dean.

Have you talked to righties like this?

Would we attract more voters if we leaned hard on the "culture of corruption"?

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Fascism is bad, m'kay?

[tk2kewl]

2. my wingnut cousin thinks drug companies are getting a raw deal in the U.S.

:crazy:

[Blue_Tires]

5. i used to have a RW co-worker

that actually used to think Wal-Mart (!) was getting a raw deal from the media, business regulation, and everyone else (her husband had some truck-driving job related to wal-mart)

[Armstead]

3. Yes -- The difference between them and liberals is fatalism

I lot of wingers hate corporations. But they accept the conservative agenda because they figure "Well there's nothing you can do about it. That's just the way the world works."

A basic tenant of liberals and progressives is that we are not helpless pawns of "the markets" and the powerful. We CAN do something about it.

The problem is that we have lost the will and ability to convey that sense of positive activism to people. And too many "centrist" establishment Democrats have also bought into the same basic line of "We can't do anything to upset the Holy Markets."

[Czolgosz]

4. There was a very good study of this released by the Pew Research Center.

Here's a link: <http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=946>

The study considers, among other things, the divisions between Neo-Cons (called "enterprisers" in the study) versus traditional upper to middle income Republicans (called "social conservatives" in the study) versus middle to lower income Republicans (called "pro-government conservatives" in the study).

Each of these traditional Republican demographics is leery of corporations except the Neo-Cons. Here's a graphic table of the study results:

[yurbud]

6. great poll--what percentage were each of the three groups?

[Czolgosz]

8. Each group represents about 1/3 of the total of voter-demographic groups

where a majority of the group self-identifies as Republican. Here's a chart from the Pew Research Center study:

[Lilith Velkor]

7. My dad is the exact same way

Perhaps it's an age thing. I've noticed older conservatives are less likely to trust Big Bidness.