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Epytropos -> RE: I never knew I had so much power over the economy--evidently I was wrong (10/17/2011 10:23:36 PM)
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Which quote are you referring too?
Sorry I quick replied. That was in response to the OP. The Santorum quote, as taken from the article linked, is as follows:
“Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: it is single mothers who run a household,” he said on the American Family Association’s radio show Today’s Issues.
“Why? Because it’s so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they’re going to vote. So if you want to reduce the Democratic advantage, what you want to do is build two parent families, you eliminate that desire for government.”
Note how he never blames single mothers for anything but Democratic primacy and an increase in social spending, which I don't think is exactly a controversial opinion. His desire to "build two parent families" is a characteristically disgusting, invasive, and authoritarian (ironic when he's decrying big government) but he isn't blaming single mothers for the economic issues in any way.
No, he is blaming single households.
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So if you want to reduce the Democratic advantage, what you want to do is build two parent families, you eliminate that desire for government.”
To me, he is suggesting that single family households are a Democratic thing.. and in order to break the hold the Dem party has, you have to encourage the two parent family unit.
Can anyone provide any factual evidence that single parents arent also found within the Republican party base? Or that dead beat parents are only part of the Democratic party?
I have seen lots of proof to the contrary.
Ok, but that was never the assertion of the thread. The assertion of the thread was that this had something to do with the economic problems. To quote the thread title:
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I never knew I had so much power over the economy
As to your larger point, I suspect you would find a statistical correlation between Dem voters (D) and single-parent households (S) since you find a correlation between poverty (P) and Dems and another between minority status (M) and Dems, and then a correlation between single-parent households and minorities and again with poverty.
If D correlates to P and M, and P and M correlate to S, it is highly likely that D also correlates to S. Now, those correlations don't necessary imply causality as Santorum is assuming, nor am I certain the lattermost correlation exists, but I don't see his statements as entirely unreasonable. Repugnant, certainly, but factually they seem more or less borne out by logic.
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