Interesting survey

[catsittingstill]

Democracy corps recently posted an analysis of the differences between far-right conservatives (20% of the electorate) and regular conservatives.  Fascinating stuff.

The good news from the survey of the focus groups, such as it is, is that the majority of the far-right conservatives do not seem to be motivated by racism.  The bad news is that they share a common belief that Obama is head or puppet of a conspiracy to deliberately destroy the country.  They believe they have special knowledge of his shady past and ill intentions that the rest of us are too lazy or misguided to seek out for ourselves.

And they are 20% of the electorate which makes them, what, 40-50 % of the Republican Party?  This worries me.   I sure hope the survey is wrong.

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

It sounds like your folks are conservative but not to the point of thinking Obama is deliberately destroying the country.

Reagan was the outlier in his time, but is he still the outlier? I think that depends on whether the Republican party is going to continue to try to please the far right. I have to admit that while I didn't like Reagan, he wasn't as crazy as this...

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I think that if you took Reaganomics, and Reagan's core beliefs, and set them up comparing to what conservative mainstream of his time held up, then looked at what W. Bush and the Republicans currently in office champion, our current Republicans in power resemble the conservative mainstream of the 1980s more than they do Reagan's policies.

So I feel validated in my notions after reading that article. And, since Reagan is safely dead, he can be held up to ideals and not gainsay anyone with a reality check.