Mayor Peduto Wants The Syrian Refugees To Come To Pittsburgh (Washington: approval, radio)

[Merge]

Originally Posted by ny789987

Yes! Watching the tv, and listening to Mayor Peduto and Gov Wolfe, you would think we have lost our minds. Thankfully, a majority of the public has common sense and doesn't want this.

The currency of the GOP has been fear for a long time and according to that standard erieguy, UKYank, ny90210, goinback, fat lou, etc... are all very wealthy individuals. The prevailing evidence of this thread and what I gather from FB posts shows us that fear indeed is the easiest way to build a majority.

[tyovan4]

Originally Posted by Merge

The currency of the GOP has been fear for a long time and according to that standard erieguy, UKYank, ny90210, goinback, fat lou, etc... are all very wealthy individuals. The prevailing evidence of this thread and what I gather from FB posts shows us that fear indeed is the easiest way to build a majority.

Not all Republicans are wealthy.

[BigPizzaHutFan]

Originally Posted by UKyank

Slavery was legal until the 1860's when the majority turned against it, unfortunately the minority was willing to fight over losing their peculiar institution as they saw the writing on the wall that it would be ended as the abolitionists outnumbered them. Hence majority ruled.

Gay marriage was recently made the legal law of the land by the US Supreme Court as the majority of the country did not support laws against it. Hence majority ruled.

The majority of states had laws against miscegenation. Many were repealed prior to the 1890's, others prior to the abolition of the practice in 1968 when all states repealed such laws as it was no longer politically popular & majority ruled.

Majority opinion on these things changed after the fact, not before. The Emancipation Proclamation was incredibly unpopular at the time, and you can find plenty of modern polls where people against gay marriage hold the plurality opinion (Bluegrass Poll: Majority remains opposed to same-sex marriage in Kentucky | Lexington Herald-Leader for example).

Discrimination and perpetuating injustice because your supporters support discrimination and injustice doesn't make it good or okay.

[BigPizzaHutFan]

Originally Posted by tyovan4

Not all Republicans are wealthy.

Come on, you didn't even read his post.

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Originally Posted by tyovan4

Not all Republicans are wealthy.

I'm sure there are some Republicans who aren't pissing their pants about the prospect of helping 10K Syrians in need, but they don't seem very active in this thread.

[UKyank]

Originally Posted by BigPizzaHutFan

Majority opinion on these things changed after the fact, not before. The Emancipation Proclamation was incredibly unpopular at the time, support discrimination and injustice doesn't make it good or okay.

The 13th amendment outlawed slavery in the US & I'd disagree it was unpopular as no one lost a seat voting for its passage & the following election the republicans picked up another 21% of seats nor did it take long to enact via state ratification.

[erieguy]

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[BigPizzaHutFan]

Originally Posted by UKyank

The 13th amendment outlawed slavery in the US & I'd disagree it was unpopular as no one lost a seat voting for its passage & the following election the republicans picked up another 21% of seats nor did it take long to enact via state ratification.

You keep dancing around the part where I say that it's morally wrong to support injustice just because your constituents believe in it. The US has never been a nation of mob rule.

[sealie]

Judges ruling on gay marriage in Iowa did lose their seat, by popular vote. You can look it up.

[UKyank]

Originally Posted by BigPizzaHutFan

You keep dancing around the part where I say that it's morally wrong to support injustice just because your constituents believe in it. The US has never been a nation of mob rule.

That's because I don't know any examples of things that were morally wrong but were changed while the majority of the people remained opposed to it. If slavery were outlawed in 1789 then yes; if gay marriage was put in place in 1950 then yes. Maybe in some localities it's occurred but not on any national level that I'm aware of. All such things waited until public opinion caught up because politicians nearly universally value reelection over taking controversial stands on controversial issues among their own constituents..

& yes mob rule can be dangerous which is precisely why the bill of rights & other amendments were added to make certain things much harder to change on a whim.