I’m a young woman who is a conservative Republican. AMA.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a very eye-opening thread. A lot of noble ideas, name calling, generalized disdain and virtue signaling from people who claim to be morally superior

Isn't everyone morally superior to a Republican these days? I mean, where is the benchmark? It's a hate mongering, lying, corrupt entity whose only purpose is to hurt and profit from it. So, until you can figure out how THIS IN AN INCORRECT assumption, yeah, we'll go with the higher road ans discuss it.

"Virtue signaling" - whenever the right wingers trot that term out, to me it only exposes their own sociopathic nature. They only care about their own immediate circle and people who are just like them. They don't care about minorities, migrants, the oppressed, and so on. And as such, they find it hard to believe that anyone else does, thus they came up with this mythology that nobody else does in fact care, and that we only just "pretend" to care, that calling out racism, antisemitism et cetera is just some kind of phony performance art, and that none of it is actually real.

But let's talk about the right's own virtue signaling. They pretend to be patriotic Americans, even as they side with seditionists and coup plotters, and would throw away democracy and the Constitution for some demagogue. And, then there's their performative Christianity, where they pretend to be virtuous people of the book, yet spit in the face of Christ's core teachings in the Gospels, of things like caring for the sick, the poor, the elderly and oppressed. Conservatives are the biggest phony virtue signalers out there.

The vast, vast majority of people only care about their immediate circle and people who are just like them. And guess what, there’s not a damn thing wrong with that. It’s perfectly natural.

Wow, I’m not sure who you hang out with, but you could do not speak for me or the majority of people I know.

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Anonymous wrote:As a Catholic, what is your proposed solution to the border crisis? Is your proposed solution aligned with the teaching of Jesus?

THIS. Please speak to the latter question, OP.

She doesn't have one, and if she did, it would not be.

-- Catholic Democrat (who would like to remind folks that "Catholic" is not a political party).

How on earth can Catholics (true Catholics) call themselves Democrats? The Democratic party stands for everything Catholics are against, and vice-versa. So incredibly hypocritical.
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Apart from disagreeing on abortion, and apart from democrats disagreeing with the patriarchical nature of the Catholic church, give some examples.

Democrats believe in feeding the hungry, healing the sick, taking care of the elderly, giving refuge to the oppressed. Your so-called "true" Catholics support politicians who want to reject refugees, who want to cut social safety net programs, that help take care of the sick and the poor and the vulnerable.

If the only thing you care about is abortion, at the expense of all those other things, then you are not at all a "true" Catholic, and are not a "true" Christian of any kind whatsoever.

You can't be serious. Catholics believe abortion is a sin, homosexuality is a sin, gay marriage should never be legal, divorce is a sin, adultery is a sin, having children out of wedlock is a sin, and more. Democrats believe the polar opposite, on all of those issues. The question is, how can one call themselves both a Catholic and a Democrat without being a complete and utter hypocrite? Answer: they can't.

I think technically Catholics mostly just have to profess the Nicene creed. The rest is negotiable as long as you are not too loud about it.

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Anonymous wrote:As a Catholic, what is your proposed solution to the border crisis? Is your proposed solution aligned with the teaching of Jesus?

THIS. Please speak to the latter question, OP.

She doesn't have one, and if she did, it would not be.

-- Catholic Democrat (who would like to remind folks that "Catholic" is not a political party).

How on earth can Catholics (true Catholics) call themselves Democrats? The Democratic party stands for everything Catholics are against, and vice-versa. So incredibly hypocritical.
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Apart from disagreeing on abortion, and apart from democrats disagreeing with the patriarchical nature of the Catholic church, give some examples.

Democrats believe in feeding the hungry, healing the sick, taking care of the elderly, giving refuge to the oppressed. Your so-called "true" Catholics support politicians who want to reject refugees, who want to cut social safety net programs, that help take care of the sick and the poor and the vulnerable.

If the only thing you care about is abortion, at the expense of all those other things, then you are not at all a "true" Catholic, and are not a "true" Christian of any kind whatsoever.

You can't be serious. Catholics believe abortion is a sin, homosexuality is a sin, gay marriage should never be legal, divorce is a sin, adultery is a sin, having children out of wedlock is a sin, and more. Democrats believe the polar opposite, on all of those issues. The question is, how can one call themselves both a Catholic and a Democrat without being a complete and utter hypocrite? Answer: they can't.

Wrong. Millions of Catholics don't believe any of that. There are a lot of progressive Catholics. ( And plenty of conservative scolds too )

That's exactly the point. You're not really a Catholic if you don't believe most of Catholicism, are you??

During pre-Cana in the Arlington Diocese (the last thing we did as catholics before disavowing) we were told this very thing, AND told "Cafeteria Catholics" were not welcome or wanted. Almost word for word.

If you're a "cafeteria catholic" for picking and choosing on things like birth control, then you're a "cafeteria catholic" if you don't follow the core teachings of Jesus of treating others as you would have them treat you, looking after the sick and the poor. There's no getting around that.

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Where is Op? Op are you here?

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Anonymous wrote:Where is Op? Op are you here?

OP has only answered a small fraction of the questions asked.

We're still waiting, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone who has never had an intimate relationship telling us how rhe world should work.

What a laugh.

You are in for a rude awakening OP.

And your dad didn't go to college.

OP never said that their dad went to college, so I’m not sure why you keep bringing that up.

She said he went to trade school. But I’m not sure why people are slamming that. I think more people should go to trade school.

It describes her family demographic, which, in turn, describes her family's politics. That is why.

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What a laugh.

You are in for a rude awakening OP.

And your dad didn't go to college.

OP never said that their dad went to college, so I’m not sure why you keep bringing that up.

She said he went to trade school. But I’m not sure why people are slamming that. I think more people should go to trade school.

It describes her family demographic, which, in turn, describes her family's politics. That is why.

What? Liberals don’t go to trade schools? I come from a very liberal family and several have gone to trade school. One of them makes more money then I do and I have a Masters degree.

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What in heck have republicans done the is advantageous to trades schools, trades or the people that make a living working a trade?

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Anonymous wrote:What in heck have republicans done the is advantageous to trades schools, trades or the people that make a living working a trade?

My father was career military for 20 years and went into the trades with some of the know-how he got in the military, did building construction, and eventually just focused on plumbing and electrical by the time he retired. He made good money - and it's true that you can make good money in the trades. But, that's if you run the business yourself. If you're just a helper you might make a decent hourly wage but not enough to get rich on or retire on.

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Anonymous wrote:What in heck have republicans done the is advantageous to trades schools, trades or the people that make a living working a trade?

My father was career military for 20 years and went into the trades with some of the know-how he got in the military, did building construction, and eventually just focused on plumbing and electrical by the time he retired. He made good money - and it's true that you can make good money in the trades. But, that's if you run the business yourself. If you're just a helper you might make a decent hourly wage but not enough to get rich on or retire on.

My friend is in the pipefitters union, makes $150k/year while having never taken out student loans, is in a non-physical role now and has excellent union insurance. You know not of what you speak.

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Strong unions are not associated with Republican party at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Strong unions are not associated with Republican party at all.

Neoliberalism is pro-union busting.

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well this so called AMA poster claimed to be MAGA leaning. Is there any trade union that endorsed maga candidates?

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Anonymous wrote:As a Catholic, what is your proposed solution to the border crisis? Is your proposed solution aligned with the teaching of Jesus?

THIS. Please speak to the latter question, OP.

She doesn't have one, and if she did, it would not be.

-- Catholic Democrat (who would like to remind folks that "Catholic" is not a political party).

How on earth can Catholics (true Catholics) call themselves Democrats? The Democratic party stands for everything Catholics are against, and vice-versa. So incredibly hypocritical.
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You’re full of sh!t. The Democratic Party and the Catholic Church align on believing those with means need to help those without. That refugees should be welcomed. That the hungry should be fed, the homeless housed, and the sick tended to. Taking care of the least among is, the powerless and voiceless, are core values for both Catholics and Democrats. There is a strong social justice faction in the Catholic church, which is a cousin of wokism. I grew up in that tradition. My family had priest and nun friends murdered and attacked in Latin America by right-wing militia because of their social justice ministering. The Catholic Church is conservative about sex and reproduction, but it is totally left-wing in its official stances when it comes to issues of poverty, racism, justice, even environmental stewardship. Don’t believe me? Read some of the current pope’s addresses and writings. The Catholic Church does not preach right-wing prosperity gospels. It favors action over words, meaning your loud pronouncements of how much you love Jesus aren’t going to get you into heaven. It’s how you treat the least of your brothers.

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Anonymous wrote:What in heck have republicans done the is advantageous to trades schools, trades or the people that make a living working a trade?

My father was career military for 20 years and went into the trades with some of the know-how he got in the military, did building construction, and eventually just focused on plumbing and electrical by the time he retired. He made good money - and it's true that you can make good money in the trades. But, that's if you run the business yourself. If you're just a helper you might make a decent hourly wage but not enough to get rich on or retire on.

My friend is in the pipefitters union, makes $150k/year while having never taken out student loans, is in a non-physical role now and has excellent union insurance. You know not of what you speak.

If Republicans had their way there would be no union, no insurance, and best possible case, he'd be lucky to be topping out at a third of that salary. And, he'd probably be fired/laid off at 45 or 50 when the physical role becomes more difficult.

#FACTS