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mandie Nov 9, 2006

Ok so i have a question...does anyone else find it interesting how democrats took both the house and senate with a republican president? (keep in mind democrats view on religion)...

iwz Nov 9, 2006

i'm a complete political noob... can you explain this a bit more? i have no idea what i should be reading between the lines

web-toedchloe Nov 9, 2006

Historically, republicans are known for being champions of "traditional values", including religion, intact families and a class system. Democrats are known for being more "liberal", or challengin...

mandie mandieOG 2001

yeah basically, democrats aren't big at all on religion..republicans are big on religious freedom...so you have bush who is all about religious freedom..but democrats have alot of control now to veto him. is that right? its ok ian, i need garrett to explain all of this to me too. so basically what i was thinking, you have these people who have the power to "eliminate" religion...what better people to have in power for jehovah to put in their hearts to try to elimante all religion. does that make sense? just a little theory which could be way off...

yay yayOG 2004

Yeah, same thoughts, but I was also thinking how it's hard to see how democrats here would fit into the world setting. It seems a lot of their views are "why do we need religion backing US government" not "we should abolish all religion in the world"

But the way I understood this was, now that most of the democrats are in the house they can rightly reject most of what the president tries for. This usually means a turning over of the presedential seat to the party favored in the house at next election, where now most issues attempted by a democratic president would then be favored.

Overall it just seems the world attitude in general is "we should just not have religion" or at least many people are turning that way

ilikebirds ilikebirdsOG 2002

You really think thats the general attitude out there in the world?
I don't pick up on thatt..

And democrats aren't against religion... They are against RELIGION IN Goverment.

Seperating Church and State and such..

maybe im' out of the loops

yay yayOG 2004

Yeah That's what I was trying to relate. This is what I meant by "why do we need religion backing US government" attitude, they don't want religion "in" the government. Not that want to abolish the freedom of having it.

I just notice a lot more than usual younger generations not caring about religion. Even older ones fed up with the churches, etc.

web-toedchloe web-toedchloeOG 2001

I think a lot of the problem right now is that our current president keeps talking about god. I think dems really just want that to stop, generally. And they're opposed to the war, so that's why the change in the houses is so critical. Notice the last few weeks how Bush has been saying 'We're going to change our strategy in Iraq'? It was widely thought that control of the houses would shift and bush wouldn't have quite the amount of power he did over the war, so he's trying to save face. The shift in power is also emphasized by the fact that Rumsfeld is being replaced as secretary of defense.

ilikebirds ilikebirdsOG 2002

sounds true

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