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And the Survey SAYS...

Posted by sdesapio 11 years, 11 months ago to Entertainment
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A few weeks ago we asked you, the Atlas Shrugged community, to fill out an anonymous online survey. Thousands of you responded and, while we will NEVER divulge any personally identifiable information about any of our members, following are some very interesting meta results.

Gulch, here's who we are...

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Sex
29% Female
71% Male

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Age
6% Under 30
26% 30-49
43% 50-65
23% Over 65

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Marital Status
15% Single
4% Cohabitating
66% Married
10% Divorced
2% Widowed

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Political Affiliation
2% Democrat
18% Independent
23% Libertarian
35% Republican
16% Tea Party

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Voted in the 2012 Presidential Election
93% Voted
3% Did not vote
3% Not registered to Vote

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  • Posted by traderpards 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm glad you have fought for the rights of women - those over 10 months of age and the rights of those less than 10 months of age be damned. As a Tea Partier, I couldn't care less about your silly little uterus. But I do care about those innocent babies who can't defend themselves. I only wish you did as well. And for what it's worth, Tea Party principles have nothing to do with your dopey little uterus. If some self-described tea party person starts talking about abortion, they've left the tea party "plantation" and ventured out on his/her own.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    welcome Jim.
    "For the record, I shall repeat what I have said many times before: I do not join or endorse any political group or movement." AR
    and after that, she ripped into Libertarians. lol
    Objectivism is a philosophy, not a political party. The war of ideas will not be won through a midterm election
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  • Posted by cseidman 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I could not care less about anybody's religion, but I do value everybody's freedom to practice it - OR NOT. So why is "In God We Trust" on my money? Why does the evangelical right think they can impose their values on women's health decisons? Why do some of your "freedom loving" friends want to destroy school science teaching with fairy tales about Adam, Eve, Jonah, Noah and Co. as "alternatives" to actual science? Religious people can exercise their rights as much as they want to, but not when they step all over mine.
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  • Posted by Eron 11 years, 10 months ago
    Human Nature ! Ayn Rand exposes Human Nature ! If I were an American , I would vote Democrat ! Government will always oppose the Corporate State ! The Bureaucrat will always oppose the Individual ! Edward Snowden ?! Who hasn't seen a starving child ? Who hasn't seen someone executed ? Who believes that Humans are righteous in their causes ? I know both good and bad Capitalists !
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  • Posted by cseidman 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So you think "infantile" was a poor choice of words? I work in the sciences, and when some so-called conservative advocates teaching kids about Noah's Ark and Adam & Eve as plausible alternatives to natural selection, then I think "infantile" is a kind word. I am an older person, and I read Ayn Rand at about the same time Barry Goldwater was first making national impact - early 1960s. Goldwater had no patience with these Bible-thumpers, either. Or, for that matter, with guys like Cheney, who talk limited government from one side of their mouths and beg for sweetheart defense contracts out of the other.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't know why I'm even responding here, but YOU may check out my comments on abortion if you'd like. POINT IS- Legislative hands are already ALL over my uterus!!
    Some religious influence tries to co-op tea party for a religious agenda. that is not the original grass roots movement of tea party. There is much we can agree on.
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  • Posted by dennyem 11 years, 10 months ago
    You have only given the US stats, how about a demographic split. I'm in Australia.
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  • Posted by dirty_industrialist 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As a Randian, I have a big problem with the Tea Partiers and some sects of the Republican party and believe they are indeed trying to force feed me and other Americans with their fundamentalist religion, as they support the government taking over my reproductive rights and banning legal abortions. As a 50+ year old female, I have fought too hard all my adult life for the rights of women, including that of ownership of our own bodies. Look up what Ayn has to say about it if you won't take my word for it. Don't try and tell me you're a Randian and a Tea Partier...that's an oxymoron. Have yet to meet a Tea Partier who does more than try to lure me in with promises of fiscal repsonsibility only to turn around and then try to get your legislative hands on my uterus. Check your premise indeed.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was surprised to see 2 percent. I mean what in the democratic party is related to small government? I can see nothing.

    Republicans only have a little association with small government, but there is at least some talk there.

    I do have a hard time seeing how one can be associated with both the democratic party and the a radian group. The two seem rather opposite from one and other to me.
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  • Posted by BambiB 11 years, 10 months ago
    Oh yeah... the Democrat party is, by a wide margin, predominantly... female.
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  • Posted by BambiB 11 years, 10 months ago
    I am not surprised that men outnumber women more than 2:1. Research by University of Chicago shows that in every state, as women got the vote, the governments of those states began to run increasing deficits. Happened at the federal level too. The reason, as near as the researchers could divine, was that women are more risk-averse than men and desperately want someone to "take care" of them... even if that "someone" is an Orwellian police state. Consequently, their votes are always for more government "programs".

    Clearly this is not ALL women, nor are ALL men on the right side of the limited government issue. But the gender gap is about 20% in recent elections, which is enough to give us a female-mandated Leviathan.

    I believe that this plunge towards economic armageddon is unstoppable, that so long as women are allowed to vote, and continue to believe that government is beneficent, the trend cannot be reversed.

    We therefore have two possibilities: Education (teaching women that the state is not their "friend") and reconstruction after armageddon. It's hard to convince someone that an entity that's handing out "free money" is not their friend, so that avenue is likely foreclosed. But what about when the dollar becomes worthless? What about when all those women sucking at the government tit find out the dollars they are getting are nothing more than paper? Is there an opportunity there?

    Yes, there is. It begins by getting the message out NOW that women are destroying the very system they depend upon, and that the dependence itself is the problem. Tell every female you know of the unavoidable consequences of the welfare state, predict for them the outcome and give them clear indicia of how the collapse will happen and what to expect... and tell them to remember it.

    They'll still take the "free money". They'll still rely upon government. They'll still suckle at Leviathan's tit. But when the end comes for them, when they see their children suffering, perhaps they will recognize that everything you said was true - that they are responsible for the destruction. Perhaps, if they survive the collapse, they will approach the rebuilding with a new view - that government is, at best, a necessary evil.
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  • Posted by fosterj717 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It takes a really small and simplistic mind to come up with that infantile pablum. I suspect that you are one of the 2% who identify themselves as Democrats (or worse). The truth really does hurt doesn't it? Especially when you can't come back with a 'grown-up' reply.
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  • Posted by nomark 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are not much of a freedom lover if you find the need to criticize how others exercise their freedoms. And you are not much of an adult if you refer to others as jerks and infantile. Are you really a closet democrat who proclaims "freedom" just as long as it's what you believe? And why do you feel so threated by people who believe in God/Christ? Do they not have the same rights you claim you do? Or are only non-believers free to exercise their first amendment rights?
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    the cronyism is washington both sides of the aisle. what has Obama done to lessen the feeding at the trough? look at annual spending today-we're supposedly moving out of the war business. I am a proud tea party and an atheist. check your premises before you spout off in here. if you want to add to the debate, consider making reasoned points that can be argued rationally. Blind hatred is sooooo non-pc of you
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  • Posted by Darcie 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Look at the demographic of responders. You'll not the largest number are between 50 and 65 years old. Old schoolers who remember when Republicans were the Libertarians if today. Not living in the past necessarily, but rather remembering when it was a good thing to live by Republican values. It wasn't that long ago. Btw, I am 60 years old and a. 'lifetime' Republican. I have strong Lubertarian leanings but am concerned about the 'collective' valueless nature of Libertarisnism. What do they stand for? What do they believe in, anarchy. Ayn Rand was no Libertarian. She wrote a great essay as to why.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't think one can read Shrugged without it having a deep impact on your life... I do know socialist communists (real ones, not just calling names) whose motto is "F*** John Galt"... and despise Ayn Rand. I thought about this, and realized - the hatred is that Ayn, and Shrugged, exposes them for who they really are, and, as they say, the truth hurts! I also believe that they fear being exposed for what they are, and work hard to quash the truth.
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  • Posted by traderpards 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually, you're the "jerk" if you care to refer to someone's religious beliefs as "infantile." Nobody, I mean NOBODY is shoving anything down your throat unless it's the president who is shoving Obamacare down all of our throats.
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  • Posted by grizzld 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    100 %, because that is the goal of the democratic party and by implication all who identify with it.
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    Posted by cseidman 11 years, 10 months ago
    I can see why so few poll respondents self-identified as Democrats... but REPUBLICANS? TEA PARTIERS? These are the jerks who pose as advocates of freedom but insist on shoving their infantile religious beliefs down our throats and also feed at the government trough (see Halliburton & Richard Cheney) at every opportunity.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I wonder what part of that 2% would identify as socialist.
    look at how the rest divide out. you can tell gulchers are a herd of cats :)
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  • Posted by grizzld 11 years, 10 months ago
    Only 2% democrats in the survey pretty much identifies who and what they represent in the context of the Atlas Shrugged story.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I got a 308 so I am close to you....As a 50 to 65 married male republican that did vote....you and specifically I....are in the class of citizen that pays and pays and pays......so naturally something like Atlas Shrugged is pretty compelling.
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  • Posted by $ EitherOr 11 years, 10 months ago
    I score 150%
    I was only 57% of a person until I voted.
    Yay for statistics. 0_o
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