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woodsprite

(11,854 posts)
Thu May 24, 2012, 11:56 AM May 2012

Quote from a coworker, "I'm a process voter."

I know he has a pretty hard tendency to lean RW. I asked him what he meant by 'process voter'. He explained it as he votes for the person who uses the best process to make his decisions, regardless of what their actual decisions and policies are. According to him, actual policies or deeds done makes no difference. That way he divorces the emotional from the practical. He's was a Ron Paul supporter, but is now an Rmoney guy.

This makes no sense to me AT ALL. That's the kind of nonsense we're up against, folks!

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Quote from a coworker, "I'm a process voter." (Original Post) woodsprite May 2012 OP
Sounds like bullshit rationalization to vote for douchebags. sadbear May 2012 #1
True story, had a winger Christian tell me he knows democrats support the poor but they do it to get uponit7771 May 2012 #2
That's what people say when they hate who they're going to vote for... jorno67 May 2012 #3
Hmm, if he had said that, I would have known EXACTLY what he was, woodsprite May 2012 #7
lol! jorno67 May 2012 #16
He's a flatulent voter! lunatica May 2012 #18
Sociopaths make perfectly dispassionate decisions. EFerrari May 2012 #4
Their reasons are many and varied, and mostly based on known, but comfortable, lies. Scuba May 2012 #5
Okay. HappyMe May 2012 #6
He has baffled you with bullshit. Gold Metal Flake May 2012 #8
I haven't heard that one before 4th law of robotics May 2012 #9
Dumbest. Voter. Ever. Bake May 2012 #10
I think he and Romney might be two peas in a pod. They only value the sinkingfeeling May 2012 #11
What a bunch of malarkey, illustrating Alexander Pope's coalition_unwilling May 2012 #12
He's probably not smart enough to think of that concept on his own...so there probably is... Tikki May 2012 #21
Ask him what process he uses to decide which candidate has the best process. drm604 May 2012 #13
He's a "Flawed Process" Voter FSogol May 2012 #14
Methinks he's picked that up from the media somewhere Populist_Prole May 2012 #15
Well, he is a programmer woodsprite May 2012 #24
Well, he is a programmer woodsprite May 2012 #25
It doesn't seem to make any sense because it doesn't make any sense. lumberjack_jeff May 2012 #17
Your confusion is a sign of higher intelligence lunatica May 2012 #19
Can he explain why Rmoney has a better decision making process? treestar May 2012 #20
Since Willard advocates tax cuts and less regs and has adopted GWB's neocon foreign policy team, ... Bozita May 2012 #22
Too stupid to live and energetic enough to hasten their demise. n/t Egalitarian Thug May 2012 #23
He's a teabagger. Never would have voted for President Obama. Maybe he just won't vote madinmaryland May 2012 #26
He thinks he's being cute. Typical RW. nt Honeycombe8 May 2012 #27

sadbear

(4,340 posts)
1. Sounds like bullshit rationalization to vote for douchebags.
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:07 PM
May 2012

Dude knows he's an asshole for supporting republicans, but he just doesn't want to admit it.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
2. True story, had a winger Christian tell me he knows democrats support the poor but they do it to get
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:10 PM
May 2012

...votes and not because they're kind.

I was like that's still better than crushing the poor and it's a lot more Christian too...

They have to rationalize even more for voting for a pension theif

jorno67

(1,986 posts)
3. That's what people say when they hate who they're going to vote for...
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:12 PM
May 2012

he may have actually meant to say "I'm a spineless, uneducated, brain washed, pawn of the republican party voter"

woodsprite

(11,854 posts)
7. Hmm, if he had said that, I would have known EXACTLY what he was,
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:15 PM
May 2012

instead of him burying it under a flatulent word (process voter = full of gas and hot air).

EFerrari

(163,986 posts)
4. Sociopaths make perfectly dispassionate decisions.
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:13 PM
May 2012

They divorce emotions from actions better than anyone, probably.

sinkingfeeling

(51,279 posts)
11. I think he and Romney might be two peas in a pod. They only value the
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:17 PM
May 2012

'process' and never-mind the results.

 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
12. What a bunch of malarkey, illustrating Alexander Pope's
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:19 PM
May 2012

maxim that "A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing."

Has this co-worker taken classes in formal logic or rhetoric? If not, then he's just a right winger seeking to claok the brutality of his values with a patina of pseudo-scientific claptrap.

Here's a syllogism for him:

All Republicans are douchebags
I am a Republican.
. . . .

Tikki

(14,539 posts)
21. He's probably not smart enough to think of that concept on his own...so there probably is...
Thu May 24, 2012, 01:05 PM
May 2012

some rwer talking head out there espousing this route to the ballot box.



Tikki

drm604

(16,230 posts)
13. Ask him what process he uses to decide which candidate has the best process.
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:23 PM
May 2012

Maybe his brain will get stuck in a processing loop.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
15. Methinks he's picked that up from the media somewhere
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:40 PM
May 2012

It just doesn't sound like something that somebody would think up themselves because it makes absolutely no sense outside of maybe a mathematician's mind.

Like others already said, I believe he's just a Republican team player who is overplaying his hand in trying to seem to have a cerebral/rational reason for being so.

woodsprite

(11,854 posts)
24. Well, he is a programmer
Thu May 24, 2012, 06:25 PM
May 2012

And supposedly a braniac, so that may explain a bit also.

I've known faculty who are brilliant in their own speciality
areas, but totally lack empathy and common sense. I usually
find their too much trouble to bother with, but this kid 15 yrs
younger than me) was trying to figure out if MD was a blue
or red state so he knew what party to register for when he
moved.

woodsprite

(11,854 posts)
25. Well, he is a programmer
Thu May 24, 2012, 08:33 PM
May 2012

And supposedly a braniac, so that may explain a bit also.

I've known faculty who are brilliant in their own speciality
areas, but totally lack empathy and common sense. I usually
find they're too much trouble to bother with, but this kid 15 yrs
younger than me) was trying to figure out if MD was a blue
or red state so he knew what party to register for when he
moved.

 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
17. It doesn't seem to make any sense because it doesn't make any sense.
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:55 PM
May 2012

"I think that corporations are people. Their interests are served by shifting their taxes onto workers, freeing them from regulation and reducing government domestically and creating an international empire."
"I think that people are people. Their interests are served by regulating businesses, making those businesses bear their costs of operation and making government effective domestically and encouraging cooperation internationally"

Both use the same process. They start from different set of assumptions, so they naturally reach different conclusions.

Bozita

(26,955 posts)
22. Since Willard advocates tax cuts and less regs and has adopted GWB's neocon foreign policy team, ...
Thu May 24, 2012, 01:15 PM
May 2012

... you might want to inform him that we've tried all that shit and it doesn't work.

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