Ah, another Republican debate. Before I start lashing out at this debate, I'm going to say that it was slightly more civil than the previous ones. Less angry interruptions, save Trump, and more direct answers for the questions they were being asked. Hey, they're politicians. A semi direct answer is all that I can realistically ask from them. Thankfully more civil, the debate was entertaining to watch because we had recently learned about the "Moral Matrix" in class, so we were able to apply those concepts to this debate. Republicans (or conservatives) tend to focus and base their decisions off of their main moral focuses, where they focus a lot on in-group loyalty, authority, and purity. They tend to not focus on harm/care or fairness as much as the liberals do, but they do encapsulate those morals for a few decisions.
Watching this debate, specifically seeing them talk about issues such as taxes and what we should be doing with that, really secured that idea that the party aligns themselves with those those morals really closely. The main moral I noticed was their in group loyalty. This doesn't necessarily mean that they agree with each other, because clearly they don't, but they are loyal to what conservatives have done in the past and what they are currently doing, along with the conservative voters. They are loyal to that mindset, and on a side note that's why conservatives dislike change so much because it's shakes that concept of in-group loyalty, and so it's really hard for them to shake that. And I saw that when they were talking about social security, because they all generally want to "take away" (so to speak) social security, and modify it. Based off of what I know from my family, it's been a trend in the conservative candidates to want to make social security benefits harder to reap the benefits of. This issue is one I'm not very educated on myself, but I was able to spot the trend of in-group loyalty where they were catering to what the conservative audiences generally agree on, and what has been proposed or thought about in the past.
I'm left wondering if they're less "scared of change" and more scared of losing the vote if they try to propose a new idea or an idea that might be coined as liberal.
Watching this debate, specifically seeing them talk about issues such as taxes and what we should be doing with that, really secured that idea that the party aligns themselves with those those morals really closely. The main moral I noticed was their in group loyalty. This doesn't necessarily mean that they agree with each other, because clearly they don't, but they are loyal to what conservatives have done in the past and what they are currently doing, along with the conservative voters. They are loyal to that mindset, and on a side note that's why conservatives dislike change so much because it's shakes that concept of in-group loyalty, and so it's really hard for them to shake that. And I saw that when they were talking about social security, because they all generally want to "take away" (so to speak) social security, and modify it. Based off of what I know from my family, it's been a trend in the conservative candidates to want to make social security benefits harder to reap the benefits of. This issue is one I'm not very educated on myself, but I was able to spot the trend of in-group loyalty where they were catering to what the conservative audiences generally agree on, and what has been proposed or thought about in the past.
I'm left wondering if they're less "scared of change" and more scared of losing the vote if they try to propose a new idea or an idea that might be coined as liberal.