What Republicans say on stage, and what they do in real life.

[JohnnyRingo]

They purport to hold every life as sacred, but they stand and cheer killing those they don't like.

I hear them when they say minorities should get off relief and get a job, but they do everything they can to block affirmative action and hiring quotas.

They claim the key to success is to get a good paying job, but for those who do, they work to break the unions that bargained for that living wage, claiming we're now "overpaid".

They want to save Medicare and Social Security for future generations, but want a chance to cut benefits and raise the retirement age. They complain that we've become an "entitlement society".

These Republicans speak of how much they love the United States Of America, yet lobby for unprecedented state's rights and carp that the federal government has too much sway over individual states.

They preach a good case for an ethnic melting pot with religious freedom as guaranteed in the constitution, but legislate vigorously for an English language Christian nation.

If anything, I think these Republican candidates suffer from chronic schitzophrenia, adopting two separate personalities at complete adds with each other when the microphone is hot. It's apparently a prerequisite for the position. I think we should look at what they do instead of what they say.

Really, am I the only one that sees this? How can Republican voters simultaniously take two views on each and every issue? I think Republicans just long for a return to the days when a man had to beg peole to let him shine their shoes to survive.

[RKP5637]

1. Absolutely true!!!

[izquierdista]

2. Cognitive dissonance is music to their ears

To hold 12 contradictory positions, half a dozen against something and the other half dozen ways to evade that non-negotiable position, is what Republicans live for.

[undergroundpanther]

3. Not schizophenia

or multiple personality...They are sociopaths.
“I don’t think I feel things the same way you do.”

The man sits at the table in the well-fitted attire of success—charming, witty, and instantly likeable. He is a confident, animated speaker, but he seems to be struggling with this particular point.

“It’s like… at my first job,” he continues, “I was stealing maybe a thousand bucks a month from that place. And this kid, he was new, he got wise. And he was going to turn me in, but before he got the chance I went to the manager and pinned the whole thing on him.” Now he is grinning widely. “Kid lost his job, the cops got involved, I don’t know what happened to him. And I guess something like that is supposed to make me feel bad, right? It’s supposed to hurt, right? But instead, it’s like there’s nothing.” He smiles apologetically and shakes his head. “Nothing.”

His name is Frank, and he is a psychopath.

In the public imagination, a “psychopath” is a violent serial killer or an over-the-top movie villain, as one sometimes might suspect Frank to be. He is highly impulsive and has a callous disregard for the well-being of others that can be disquieting. But he is just as likely to be a next-door neighbor, a doctor, or an actor on TV—essentially no different from anyone else who holds these roles, except that Frank lacks the nagging little voice which so profoundly influences most of our lives. Frank has no conscience. And as much as we would like to think that people like him are a rare aberration, safely locked away, the truth is that they are more common than most would ever guess.
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unburdened-mind/


Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern of the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken. And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools. Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs. Since everyone simply assumes that conscience is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that you are conscience-free is nearly effortless. You are not held back from any of your desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your cold-bloodedness. The ice water in your veins is so bizarre, so completely outside of their personal experience that they seldom even guess at your condition.

In other words, you are completely free of internal restraints, and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world. You can do anything at all, and still your strange advantage over the majority of people, who are kept in line by their consciences, will most likely remain undiscovered.
http://www.cix.co.uk/~klockstone/spath.htm

[xfundy]

4. "How can Republican voters simultaniously take two views on each and every issue?"

Easily. Read "1984" by George Orwell. It's classic doublethink, with "two minutes hate" extended into years.