Democratic Party candidates across the spectrum of government should be carrying this as a banner into the November elections.
Republicans are destroying the two party system.
Pluralistic ignorance is when a group of members reject a norm. They incorrectly assume that most others accept it. Supposedly, it is an unspoken truth or wish for a society to achieve.
Basically, the people creating the Republican platform live in isolation of reality and the norms and values of most of the country. This is a defeated platform. It is rejected by most if not all Americans, save this drafting committee that is completely laughable.
Political platforms can be extreme, but, for a country in turbulence and one leaders are trying to unite, this is not the way. This is pluralistic ignorance. There is a name for it.
July 12, 2016
By Jeremy W. Peters
Cleveland — Republicans moved on Tuesday (click here) toward adopting a staunchly conservative platform that takes a strict, traditionalist view of the family and child rearing, bars military women from combat, describes coal as a “clean” energy source and declares pornography a “public health crisis.”
Amazing. In most federal elections the military votes Republican, but, this year I think it is an open debate about the military vote. The military will vote for better benefits and quality of life for their families including support for caregivers when women or men are called into battle. The USA military today is different than eight years ago. Today, women in the military speak out about sexual assault and there are same sex marriages recognized. The issues today are about a changing paradigm in the military and one the country mostly embraces.
It is a platform that at times seems to channel the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump — calling to “destroy ISIS,” belittling President Obama as weak and accusing his administration of inviting attacks from adversaries.
Republicans are destroying the two party system.
Pluralistic ignorance is when a group of members reject a norm. They incorrectly assume that most others accept it. Supposedly, it is an unspoken truth or wish for a society to achieve.
Basically, the people creating the Republican platform live in isolation of reality and the norms and values of most of the country. This is a defeated platform. It is rejected by most if not all Americans, save this drafting committee that is completely laughable.
Political platforms can be extreme, but, for a country in turbulence and one leaders are trying to unite, this is not the way. This is pluralistic ignorance. There is a name for it.
July 12, 2016
By Jeremy W. Peters
Cleveland — Republicans moved on Tuesday (click here) toward adopting a staunchly conservative platform that takes a strict, traditionalist view of the family and child rearing, bars military women from combat, describes coal as a “clean” energy source and declares pornography a “public health crisis.”
Amazing. In most federal elections the military votes Republican, but, this year I think it is an open debate about the military vote. The military will vote for better benefits and quality of life for their families including support for caregivers when women or men are called into battle. The USA military today is different than eight years ago. Today, women in the military speak out about sexual assault and there are same sex marriages recognized. The issues today are about a changing paradigm in the military and one the country mostly embraces.
It is a platform that at times seems to channel the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump — calling to “destroy ISIS,” belittling President Obama as weak and accusing his administration of inviting attacks from adversaries.
But, the document positions itself far to the right of Mr. Trump’s beliefs in other places — and amounts to a rightward lurch even from the party’s hard-line platform in 2012 — especially as it addresses gay men, lesbians and transgender people.
As delegates debated in two marathon sessions here on Monday and Tuesday, they repeatedly rejected efforts by more moderate members of the platform committee to add language that would acknowledge or condemn anti-gay discrimination — something Mr. Trump has done himself....
The chairwoman for the platform committee was Virginia Fox from North Carolina. There is no description needed. North Carolina has grown to be among the most corrupted states in the country.
...Additional provisions included those that promoted state laws to limit which restrooms transgender people could use, nodded to “conversion therapy” for gays by saying that parents should be free to make medical decisions about their children without interference and stated that “natural marriage” between a man and a woman is most likely to result in offspring who do not become drug-addicted or otherwise damaged....
There is absolutely no research that upholds any of these positions, except, for that coming out of Dobson's "Focus on the Family." The entire Republican platform is pluralistic ignorance so that the followers of radio shows and FOX News will pay attention to the date of the election. It is all populous nonsense that damages the country and does nothing to unite it.
The chairwoman for the platform committee was Virginia Fox from North Carolina. There is no description needed. North Carolina has grown to be among the most corrupted states in the country.
...Additional provisions included those that promoted state laws to limit which restrooms transgender people could use, nodded to “conversion therapy” for gays by saying that parents should be free to make medical decisions about their children without interference and stated that “natural marriage” between a man and a woman is most likely to result in offspring who do not become drug-addicted or otherwise damaged....
There is absolutely no research that upholds any of these positions, except, for that coming out of Dobson's "Focus on the Family." The entire Republican platform is pluralistic ignorance so that the followers of radio shows and FOX News will pay attention to the date of the election. It is all populous nonsense that damages the country and does nothing to unite it.
