Study: White Americans Are Becoming More Conservative

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White Americans are becoming more conservative. They may be a minority, but they pay most of the taxes.

All political factions favor big government, no matter what they say. The National Debt is a tax at Interest.

Corporations pay political donations, and hardly any taxes.

White conservative views are smaller government, that is first funded to enforce the laws, and defend the borders.

Other ideas of what government should do come after the basics.

Government runs on kickbacks, bribes, and selling laws, or the non enforcement of laws. Just look at the Tax Code, if you have a hundred years.

Deporting the illegals would cause job reductions at ICE. A secure border would reduce Border Patrol numbers.

Government employees are a runaway growth sector. They vote for their jobs, and their benefits.

The parsites have parasites, since they regulate Oil Companies, BP missed monthly inspections for 27 months, so the name of the agency was changed. Tech companies spy for the NSA, and keep their profits offshore.

The bigger the government, the bigger the kickback. Treasury workers retire with pensions, then start on Wall St. where they have friends. Minerals Management leads to a Oil Company job in Government Relations.

It was Legal because it was done by Lawyers, getting Congress to pass laws making it legal.

The oil in the ground belongs to The People, but is sold for nothing by a Government Agency.

Norway gets 95% of their oil, now owns 1% of the world's stocks, and provides free education, health care, has no debt, and a lot of diverse income. They have no problem finding companies to extract their oil under strict rules, for 5%.

America has a few very well off public employees, rich oil companies, and are being taxed to pay for the cleanup.

Taxing Americans more is not going to work, Cutting Social Security is not going to work, so it is the Government and Millitary complex that has to take the coming cuts, and national resources, and finance, must fund the smaller government.

The Boomers are retiring, will demand Social Security, also own a lot of investments, which will reduce tax income, and cause higher payouts. Rising debt will not cover the next thirty years.

It is not a Political Conservative move, screw them, it is a realistic move, secure the future.

Neither government or business are any friend of the People.

Add to that: Unions pay political donations and are tax exempt.

it allows to union members to play ball with the big corporate players
im very for unions as long as they represent the worker members
im working a union job right now and I have only worked for a few months now
the union has gotten our money from the company that pays us multiple times now after they have tried to screw us out of overtime and rain day pay

My Dad had been a union grievance man (shop steward), and I've always have had pro-union sentiments. Thanks to the union, my parents were able to own their house free and clear, my Mom didn't have to work outside the home after they were married, we were able to enjoy a middle class lifestyle, and neither of my parents needed to worry after my Dad retired.

I'm not surprised. How do you fix the government, is my next Q.........?

^Add to that super PACs and religious organizations.

There are lobbyists for every sector of every industry, as well as every special interest group. There are very few large corporations that do not have their own private lobbying firms on retainer (with many having their own lobbying department).

If conservatives are for less government....why do they try passing laws to invade peoples personal lives. Pretty sure mandatory drug testing was a conservative idea. Also I've heard plenty of conservatives that think anyone receiving any kind of welfare should be heavily monitered by the government because depending on government help is reason not to have as much freedom as others. The conservatives want less government when it comes to things like taxation used to support the infastructure and public or regulations on corporations and what not...but when it comes to peoples personal lives, what they do in their own time, and gay marrige for instance they want the government interfering and telling people how to live.

Also I'd have to look it up, but if I remember right the democratic party of that time had more of a resemblence to todays conservative party...so who was really pro-segregation and slavery?

It was also conservatives who around here had put a up a billboard proclaiming that anyone on public assistance shouldn't have the right to vote. Funny how the party of liberty wants to take it from others.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen you here in the past few days. Apparently you were in the process of moving to Idaho or Montana (bet that would hurt ). For surely, no hateful sign like that would ever be displayed in such a loving and diverse place as Washington.

Outside of the greater Spokane area, much of eastern Washington is very red.

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How do that figure that?More people are becoming opened minded about same sex marriage,interracial marriage,use of marijuana,race relations,human rights,gay and lesbian's right to serve,seems like it's getting more liberal to me.

Well, a segment of society is becoming more liberal and open minded. But there is still a reactionary element that is very vocal and active in their opposition of all those good things you had listed. Just read the posts on Yahoo News, if you can stomach it, and you'll see what I mean. People who believe they are under siege react with everything from mere vitriol, to some act of violent lunacy, as recently at those Jewish community centers in Missouri.

Have you ever considered that most of them are just trolls trying to get a rise out of the more easily upset people?

Doubtlessly, a good many are. But I have no doubt that many others are quite sincere in their hate and loathing.

It seems uncharitable and simplistic to equate conservatism with closed-mindedness. To be open-minded is to be willing to consider others' views; it does not require the adoption of those views, so an increase in open-mindedness cannot imply that more people are adopting liberal values.