We found, in both studies, that our participants toed the party line. Republicans supported climate policies that they understood to be backed by Republicans and were neutral toward policies backed by Democrats. Democrats supported policies that they understood to be backed by Democrats more than they supported policies backed by Republicans.
Why is it so important to people whether climate policies are proposed by their own party or the opposing one? An interesting suggestion from our research is that Democrats and Republicans are swayed by partisanship because they think their fellow Democrats or fellow Republicans are even more swayed by partisanship — and they don’t want to break ranks.
Pops wrote:I'm gonna guess the Ds are going to go with the corporatist/ globalist/ meritocratic/ social-segmentation-slice-dice in a tan-to-brown flavor, preferably female, if not LQBTQRSTUV.
Pops wrote:Regardless, the establishment is wall street
Pops wrote: there ain't much trump has done a generic R wouldn't.
Plantagenet wrote:Just this morning the Koch brothers--long some of the biggest backers of the R party, announced they would probably switch their support away from Trump and to backing a "free trade" candidate in the D party because they oppose Trump on this issue.
Open borders has nothing to do with communisim. It has tons to do with corporatist wanting cheap labor.
onlooker wrote:Open borders has nothing to do with communisim. It has tons to do with corporatist wanting cheap labor.
Bingo! Republicans/Libertarians want GOVT out of the way, well this is what happens with free reign Capitalism, everything becomes about profit. Your party Cog has been siding with the Corporations all along
Ibon wrote:What has happened to America's middle class in the last 20 years?
Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year” (55). By manipulating the language, the government wishes to alter the public’s way of thinking.
Newfie wrote:I think there is not denying that Trump is an agent of the divide. Likewise his haters.
Alexander the Great is famous, but he did little other than despoil other peoples efforts.
Unfortunately those “others” memories have faded.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Newfie wrote:Tanada,
No doubt all you say is true, and I always enjoy your thoughtful posts.
My comment was more that he left no great legacy, he conqured existing empires and moved on. Had he lived perhaps that would have come, but it does not seem likely.
If you judge greatness by vicotory your outcome will be different than if you leave behind some greater culture. Napoleon had a good bit of Alexander, but he left behind The Naooleonic Code and other reforms. What was Wellington’s legacy? Washington did not have a glorious military history but he left a huge legacy through his leadership.
Hope this clarifies.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
dissident wrote:Not to nitpick, but the astrolabe does not measure longitude. Longitude can be inferred by the drift of high noon as one moves east or west. That is why it was the development of high precision clocks in Britain that for the first time enabled precise latitude determination:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolabe
Finding the time of day
The time of day is found in the following steps:
The altitude of the Sun or a bright star is determined using the back of the instrument. The astrolabe is held above eye level from the suspension. The astrolabe is oriented so the Sun or star is lined up with the back of the astrolabe. The alidade is rotated until the Sun's shadow or the star itself is visible through the sights on the alidade. The altitude is noted from the altitude scale on the back of the instrument.
The Sun's position on the ecliptic is found by setting the alidade on the date and reading the Sun's longitude on the zodiac scale.
On the front of the astrolabe, the rule is rotated until is crosses the ecliptic at the Sun's current longitude. The point where the rule crosses the ecliptic is the Sun's current position.
The rete and rule are rotated together until the Sun or star pointer is at the measured altitude.
The rule points to the apparent solar time on the limb. Apparent solar time is the time as shown on a sundial and is different for each longitude.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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