Do the Republicans suffer from a lack of responsibility? I was just watching Bill Maher and they

[applegrove]

said Democrats have an overdeveloped sense of guilt and responsibility. I don't think that is the case. The problem is with the repukes. They don't have the normal amount of responsibility for their fellow man. So that makes them irresponsible.

[WCGreen]

1. There idea of an ideal society is every man for himself and that the

federal government should only be there to protect the interests of the US overseas...

[gimama]

2. Actually, the PEOPLE suffer from the republikers' lack

of responsibility!;)

[aquart]

3. The Republicans would be proud to know they are very like the ancient Athenians.

They, too, believed in citizenship limited only to those of the right families, no rights for women or non-citizens, and every father had about two weeks to decide if he wanted to keep his newest baby, or leave it to die (or be enslaved by the enterprising)on a hillside.

Ah, the fountain of democracy.

[jdman]

4. Circle Jerk

These comments sound like circle jerk!!!!!

[Webster Green]

14. Huh?

Your post sure added a lot to the discussion. Where did you come from anyway? :rofl:

[aquart]

16. Welcome to DU. May your brief stay be a happy one.

[applegrove]

17. It is those "teenage" repukes who are the problem. They are not responsible.

[rhett o rick]

5. The republicans are following a strategy of doing as much damage as they can until 2012.

Then the shadow government will emerge and Jeb Bush and Liz Cheney will run for president. The republicans are hoping the country will be in ruins so they can blame the Democrats. And the Democrats are falling for it.

[onestepforward]

6. I think they suffer from a lack of responsibility.

Take climate change. Repubs deny it, thus they don't have to do a damn thing about it.

You mentioned that they don't have a responsibility toward their fellow man. I agree. They have turned "empathy" into an emotion that is weak and undesirable. If you don't care about your fellow man, then you don't have to do anything. It is an easy way out of responsibility.

[ddeclue]

7. It's called being "sociopathic"

[Marr]

8. You talking about voters or politicians?

In the US, politicians are almost always just Wall Street's government liaison officers, and party makes no difference.

I think there's a meaningful distinction between voters who self-identify as Conservative or Liberal, but I don't know that it has anything to do with guilt. I think it boils down to: Conservatives think human being are basically bad, and Liberals think they're basically good.

The right scares easily and wants protection from all those bad people. The left is more interested in helping those people. I'm not really sure which is more correct, to be honest-- but since I'm one of the average people, my personal interests lay more with the left.

[misanthrope]

12. I beg to differ...

..I know of progressives like myself who believe that even though humanity has a barbaric nature, we are capable of far better and must continually strive toward that refinement. The difference is that we believe in the struggle against our crueler tendencies, not for individual gain but for the good of the species and the planet. Conservatives, on the other hand, believe in embracing selfishness and to hell with everything and everyone else.

[Marr]

13. I see what you're saying. I do think it's almost the same thing, however.

To believe in a struggle against your crueler tendencies, you must believe that success is possible; that people can be more than vicious little greed machines. I'd say Conservative's tend not to share that belief, and their cruelty is mostly just a case of 'doing unto others before they can do unto you'.

[Zoeisright]

9. Repukes don't take responsibility for ANYTHING.

Party of personal responsibility my ASS. They whine and screech whenever they do anything wrong and deflect blame on anyone other than themselves.

They're like a bunch of bratty two-year-olds.

[moondust]

10. That's easy.

Look around the world at the other "advanced democracies" and typically their social values much more closely resemble those of U.S. Democrats: universal health care, sensible gun control, strong on education, demilitarization, environmental concerns, etc. Everything Republicans hate.

Republicans seem to be missing a "humanity" gene. "Compassionate conservatism" was just another cynical hoax designed to suck votes.

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[DScully]

15. Republicans don't practice what they preach.

They claim to be the only true practioners of Christianity, yet they have none of Christ's compassion for their fellowman. They live in the pockets of insurance companies and other corporate interests, and their only interest is in protecting those fat cats who pay for their campaigns. So they have no concern for the common man struggling to get by and no interesting in doing anything to improve anything for regular people.