true?
Lurking in every progressives mind is a basic prototype of the 'typical right wing extremist' republican. Question is, how much of this common stereotype is true?
To discover if the "right wing archetype" is really out there I went republican hunting using AOLS listand did a keyword check of AOLS list of clients searches that they stupidly dumped out on an unsuspecting internet a bit over a year ago. This database holds the searches of thousands of AOL users (typically not extremely intellectual types anyway- so this itself may have skewed my research a bit).
First of all lets clearly frame our RWA (right wing archetype) out.
The RWA:
Loves the Military.
Thinks Liberals 'hate the military'.
Thinks Liberals 'hate babies'.
Thinks Liberals are 'commies'.
Hates Liberals.
Hates Hillary.
Loves Reagan.
Loves Bush.
Loves Guns.
Thinks WMD's exist.
Thinks the Iraq War is a Good Thing and that Good Things are happening there.
Believes that Homeland security is actually functioning in his best interest.
Thinks Trickle Down Economics works.
Hates Illegal Aliens.
Proposes to be 'Christian'.
On a personal level our RWA is:
Overweight.
Lives in a trailer - in the South.
Is uneducated.
Surfs 'babe sites' if he has a computer and is online.
Is Racist.
Is Xenophobic.
Is either:
a. married and abuses his wife.
b. divorced because he abused his wife.
c. is a complete mysogynist who believes the only place women belong is in the bedroom or kitchen- or perhaps cleaning the toilet.
d. believes in chattel laws.
e. a combination of at least 3 of the above.
and to get very personal, the RWA suffers from 'little man' syndrome combined with erectile dysfunction, leading to the natural conclusion that this is why he generally hates women and black men (having a firm belief in the stereotypes propagated about black males physical ampleness.
So there you have it. I left a few things out- but this is the basic stereotypical right wing republican in a nutshell.
Ok on to the old AOL search dump. I using 'republicans' as the keyword I found one searcher, #336951 whose search result was www.gop.com and checked his search history. This is the only one I looked at. Not exactly scientific - but the results were funny as hell. Many of these search terms/combinations were multiple searches- like the Florida Lottery, mobile homes and dating sites.
#336951 Searches:
336951 9 11 not a govn conspiricy 2006-03-01
336951 licoln planned to deport slaves 2006-03-01
336951 how many terrorist attcks has homeland security stopped 2006-03-04
336951 liberals against america 2006-03-05
336951 the good news from iraq 2006-03-04
336951 reagan was a great president 2006-03-05
336951 good news from afghanistan 2006-03-05
336951 i hate liberals 2006-03-05
336951 liberals against america 2006-03-05
336951 liberals are communists 2006-03-05
336951 the economy is getting better under bush 2006-03-06
336951 the kkk made up of democrats 2006-03-08
336951 escort service in tavares florida 2006-03-15
336951 swingers.com 2006-03-15
336951 matchbook.com 2006-03-20 (dating site)
336951 domestic abuse 2006-05-18
336951 liberals are demoralizing the troops 2006-03-21
336951 florida lottery 2006-03-26 (multiple searches)
336951 bush is not the worst president ever 2006-03-28
336951 penis enlargement 2006-03-31
336951 remodeling of mobile homes 2006-05-06
336951 mail order brides free service 2006-05-11
336951 plentyoffish 2006-05-13
336951 phillipine brides' 2006-05-27
My first hit- imagine that- and all my nightmares came true.
Go here to see the full list.