For years I've been trying to find some unifying principle which would tie together the varying and seemingly disparate beliefs of the Republican Party. Some of them are so self-contradictory, it's hard to fathom why.
Pro-Life and pro-death penalty? In favor of smaller government as long it it means that government isn't to small to mandate what you do in your personal life or what women do with their bodies?
All about the Bible except for those troublesome parts about remembering the poor and free healthy care?
Then it occurred to me, they're Darwinists, they just don't admit it.
Think about it. Every major platform they have is consistent with evolution.
*Gun Control: I need my guns to protect me and my family from the bad guys. I can't rely on the police. (Survival of the fittest.)
*Class Distinction: The rich people are rich because they deserve to be rich. They worked hard to get there. Poor people are poor because they are too lazy to work. (Survival of the fittest.)
*Progressive Taxes: If I am poor and hard working then it's only because the lazy poor people are making the hard-working rich people pay for their i-phones so they don't have money left to pay me for my hard work. (Survival of the fittest)
*Corporate Regulation: Just a plot by the lazy socialists to keep the hard-working Americans from having the right to keep their own money. (Survival of the fittest).
*War: You have, we want we take—or else you will come and kill us with your terrorism and WMD and Socialist ideology or what have you. (Survival of the fittest)
*Rape: If you were raped it's your fault because your manner of tire made it impossible for the man to repress his biological urge to procreate. (Procreation)
*Teen Pregnancy: I have implanted my seed in you. Just because you were too big a slut to keep your legs crossed, you shouldn't murder my child. (Procreation)
*Abortion: See above (Procreation)
*Gay Rights: Gays can't procreate. (Procreation)
The only thing that doesn't fit in here is God and the whole Evolution vs. Creation thing. Maybe they should just abandon that part of their platform entirely. Evolution works much better as a unifying paradigm.
They already are Evolutionists. They just aren't evolved enough to realize it.