Pilot's Political Orientation

Flightinfo.com asked for pilots political orientation.

Results:

Democrat 22.97%
Republican 57.24%
Ind. 19.79%

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Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke

Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke


If only it was even as good as that

Liberalism is more imprisoning than communism ever thought of being while
hiding under the fake facade of true freedom.....

Its much better when poision is labeled poison, tastes like poison, and
everyone knows its poison.....rather than thinking and being told its free
jelly doughnuts instead....

take care

Blll

"Chicken Bone" wrote in message
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Flightinfo.com asked for pilots political orientation.

Results:

Democrat 22.97%
Republican 57.24%
Ind. 19.79%


I suspect the results would have been more illuminating had
they included the Libertarians and Greens as options.

"Tony Cox" wrote in message
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I suspect the results would have been more illuminating had
they included the Libertarians and Greens as options.


How so? They'd both be included in the 19.79% that voted independent.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Tony Cox" wrote in message
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I suspect the results would have been more illuminating had
they included the Libertarians and Greens as options.


How so? They'd both be included in the 19.79% that voted independent.

Because "Ind." it isn't "Independent", its "Individual candidates/issues".
In any case, I don't think of the Libs or Greens "independent."

I'd have expected those who chose Libertarian would be
a substantially higher proportion than the general population and the
Greens substantially lower. Pilots are a self-reliant independent bunch,
keen on driving machines whose gas consumption puts SUV's to
shame.

"Tony Cox" wrote in message
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Because "Ind." it isn't "Independent", its "Individual candidates/issues".


Big deal. Isn't an Independent a person that votes for individual
candidates and/or issues? The choices in this poll are essentially
Democrat, Republican, and Other.

"BllFs6" wrote in message
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Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke


If only it was even as good as that

Liberalism is more imprisoning than communism ever thought of being while
hiding under the fake facade of true freedom.....

Its much better when poision is labeled poison, tastes like poison, and
everyone knows its poison.....rather than thinking and being told its free
jelly doughnuts instead....


People still buy cigarettes.... How can anyone possibly explain why vast
numbers of people will continue to buy something that burns their mouths and
lungs, makes the eyes sting, smells bad, makes food taste bad, is likely to
burn themselves, their friends, and their possessions, and is deadly
poisonous to boot, and even claim that they 'enjoy' it? Perhaps liberalism
is to politics what tobacco is to recreation.

Maybe JFK was right after all, when he claimed that he was a jelly doughnut.
:-)

Tony Cox wrote:

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Tony Cox" wrote in message
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I suspect the results would have been more illuminating had
they included the Libertarians and Greens as options.


How so? They'd both be included in the 19.79% that voted independent.


Because "Ind." it isn't "Independent", its "Individual candidates/issues".
In any case, I don't think of the Libs or Greens "independent."

I'd have expected those who chose Libertarian would be
a substantially higher proportion than the general population and the
Greens substantially lower. Pilots are a self-reliant independent bunch,

Sounds to me like pilots are a lot like farmers, sqawking for the gumbit
to cut their taxes and stay out of their "self-reliant" way, while
refusing to acknowledge (even to themselves) the massive government
spending, protection, and subsidies that make their activity
economically feasible.

(ducking)

"TTA Cherokee Driver" wrote in message
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Sounds to me like pilots are a lot like farmers, sqawking for the gumbit
to cut their taxes and stay out of their "self-reliant" way, while
refusing to acknowledge (even to themselves) the massive government
spending, protection, and subsidies that make their activity
economically feasible.


What is this massive government spending, protection, and subsidy that makes
flying economically feasible and what is the source?

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McNicoll" writes:

"Tony Cox" wrote in message
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I suspect the results would have been more illuminating had
they included the Libertarians and Greens as options.


How so? They'd both be included in the 19.79% that voted independent.



So, Thomas Jefferson and Stalin belong in the same option?

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Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG