And the Survey SAYS...
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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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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"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
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.
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.
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.
look at how the rest divide out. you can tell gulchers are a herd of cats :)
I was only 57% of a person until I voted.
Yay for statistics. 0_o
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