Republican Friends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While I shake my head at the bizarre and destructive trajectory of the Republican Party’s political antics, I think it is best to take people as you find them.

Our DC married into a Republican family (Trump supporters except her husband) and they turned out to be really nice, kind and reasonable people. We still have good friends who are old fashioned Republicans and they are trying to help their party get back into a sane path. They are from deep red states so a lot of it is culture and family traditions.

On the other hand, there are definitely Democrats who are arrogant, unkind and not open to different ways of thinking.

If we stay in our own Echo chambers, things will only get worse.

Most Americans whether D or R support women’s choice and gun controls. i agree with PP who argued for finding common ground and working on that. We need federal protection for abortion rights.

who happen to support racism, nationalism, mysogyny and otherwise subjecting people who aren't straight white christians as the other in a neo-fascist future USA ruled by mobs of Oathkeepers, 3%ers and Proud Boys.

Fine people indeed and you are excusing them.

“USA ruled by mobs of Oathkeepers” - go out and get some fresh air. It’s a nice summer day.

I happened across a movie called “American Insurrection” late Sunday night.

It was a dystopian future of almost exactly this scenario. The oath keeper types were a militia group called “The Volunteers”

Why do you think any of this is so far fetched? I mean, really, we are watching in real time our rights being stripped by a vocal minority plotting to take over the government by every lever possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While I shake my head at the bizarre and destructive trajectory of the Republican Party’s political antics, I think it is best to take people as you find them.

Our DC married into a Republican family (Trump supporters except her husband) and they turned out to be really nice, kind and reasonable people. We still have good friends who are old fashioned Republicans and they are trying to help their party get back into a sane path. They are from deep red states so a lot of it is culture and family traditions.

On the other hand, there are definitely Democrats who are arrogant, unkind and not open to different ways of thinking.

If we stay in our own Echo chambers, things will only get worse.

Most Americans whether D or R support women’s choice and gun controls. i agree with PP who argued for finding common ground and working on that. We need federal protection for abortion rights.

who happen to support racism, nationalism, mysogyny and otherwise subjecting people who aren't straight white christians as the other in a neo-fascist future USA ruled by mobs of Oathkeepers, 3%ers and Proud Boys.

Fine people indeed and you are excusing them.

+1

I didn’t have to marry in like PP’s daughter, I was born in. They’re great to in group people. You’re in group. Try sharing your actual feelings and feel what even mild “out group” status feels like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I shake my head at the bizarre and destructive trajectory of the Republican Party’s political antics, I think it is best to take people as you find them.

Our DC married into a Republican family (Trump supporters except her husband) and they turned out to be really nice, kind and reasonable people. We still have good friends who are old fashioned Republicans and they are trying to help their party get back into a sane path. They are from deep red states so a lot of it is culture and family traditions.

On the other hand, there are definitely Democrats who are arrogant, unkind and not open to different ways of thinking.

If we stay in our own Echo chambers, things will only get worse.

Most Americans whether D or R support women’s choice and gun controls. i agree with PP who argued for finding common ground and working on that. We need federal protection for abortion rights.

Repulbicans are not going back to a 'sane' path. Just give it up and cut bait. They are going down swinging, and they'd rather take you down with them than conceed to find a middle ground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While I shake my head at the bizarre and destructive trajectory of the Republican Party’s political antics, I think it is best to take people as you find them.

Our DC married into a Republican family (Trump supporters except her husband) and they turned out to be really nice, kind and reasonable people. We still have good friends who are old fashioned Republicans and they are trying to help their party get back into a sane path. They are from deep red states so a lot of it is culture and family traditions.

On the other hand, there are definitely Democrats who are arrogant, unkind and not open to different ways of thinking.

If we stay in our own Echo chambers, things will only get worse.

Most Americans whether D or R support women’s choice and gun controls. i agree with PP who argued for finding common ground and working on that. We need federal protection for abortion rights.

They are not such kind and reasonable people. As another person said, they are nice and kind to YOU because you are now part of their family. But they are turning their backs on a huge swath of their "neighbors" when they support the GOP. Heck, they are probably shooting themselves in the foot in some ways by supporting the GOP and are just too ignorant to see it (maybe willfully so).

We have given a bye to the "nice, kind, reasonable" people that support the GOP in our immediate circles for too long. It's time to call them out on what they are supporting. Period.

They say the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. They are doing more than nothing. They are voting for it.

Humans have short memories. The people who point out how things went in Germany when the Nazis came to power are right to do so. We never learn our lessons. It's not hyperbole.

[Anonymous]

We'll find out how "hysterical" 80% or so of women are right now in a few years.

My republican former friends are going to be very surprised and that is on them.

[Anonymous]

Getting divorced from one. The friends are next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No worries there. Your Republican friends came to the same conclusion about you long ago.

Then they are idiots

This is Democracy what the US stands for

What exactly do you not like??
Dems aren’t raising taxes your boys are

Dems aren’t taking social security away Republicans are
Dems didn’t try to steal an election and give their hard earned taxpayer funds to a fat orange criminal Republicans did

Leave the US you are a Russian troll

[Anonymous]

My spouse is left of center. I’m right of center. She’s a D. I’m a R. She agrees and disagrees with parts of her party platform. I agree and disagree with parts of mine. We’ve been happily married for 18 years. We’ve never allowed politics and the ideological echo chambers out there to drive a wedge between us.

Marriage is more than about politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My spouse is left of center. I’m right of center. She’s a D. I’m a R. She agrees and disagrees with parts of her party platform. I agree and disagree with parts of mine. We’ve been happily married for 18 years. We’ve never allowed politics and the ideological echo chambers out there to drive a wedge between us.

Marriage is more than about politics.

Until your wife can't get health care. Or until your kids have to practice a different religion at school to not anger the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My spouse is left of center. I’m right of center. She’s a D. I’m a R. She agrees and disagrees with parts of her party platform. I agree and disagree with parts of mine. We’ve been happily married for 18 years. We’ve never allowed politics and the ideological echo chambers out there to drive a wedge between us.

Marriage is more than about politics.

Some Republicans aren't dealing with the wacko right reality of their party right now and it shows.

Get back to us in 5 years pp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My spouse is left of center. I’m right of center. She’s a D. I’m a R. She agrees and disagrees with parts of her party platform. I agree and disagree with parts of mine. We’ve been happily married for 18 years. We’ve never allowed politics and the ideological echo chambers out there to drive a wedge between us.

Marriage is more than about politics.

Until your wife can't get health care. Or until your kids have to practice a different religion at school to not anger the teachers.

Lol. No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My spouse is left of center. I’m right of center. She’s a D. I’m a R. She agrees and disagrees with parts of her party platform. I agree and disagree with parts of mine. We’ve been happily married for 18 years. We’ve never allowed politics and the ideological echo chambers out there to drive a wedge between us.

Marriage is more than about politics.

So...
who won the 2020 election?

I'm in a marriage like this, and if my spouse starts spouting of Fox nonsense about how there was ballot stuffing (but with no proof produced by any side), I'd have to question how gullible they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My spouse is left of center. I’m right of center. She’s a D. I’m a R. She agrees and disagrees with parts of her party platform. I agree and disagree with parts of mine. We’ve been happily married for 18 years. We’ve never allowed politics and the ideological echo chambers out there to drive a wedge between us.

Marriage is more than about politics.

Some Republicans aren't dealing with the wacko right reality of their party right now and it shows.

Get back to us in 5 years pp.

In five years I’ll be happily married for 23 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My spouse is left of center. I’m right of center. She’s a D. I’m a R. She agrees and disagrees with parts of her party platform. I agree and disagree with parts of mine. We’ve been happily married for 18 years. We’ve never allowed politics and the ideological echo chambers out there to drive a wedge between us.

Marriage is more than about politics.

So...
who won the 2020 election?

I'm in a marriage like this, and if my spouse starts spouting of Fox nonsense about how there was ballot stuffing (but with no proof produced by any side), I'd have to question how gullible they are.

You assume incorrectly that all registered Republicans subscribe to the propaganda of Fox News or live in a manufactured echo chamber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My spouse is left of center. I’m right of center. She’s a D. I’m a R. She agrees and disagrees with parts of her party platform. I agree and disagree with parts of mine. We’ve been happily married for 18 years. We’ve never allowed politics and the ideological echo chambers out there to drive a wedge between us.

Marriage is more than about politics.

Some Republicans aren't dealing with the wacko right reality of their party right now and it shows.

Get back to us in 5 years pp.

In five years I’ll be happily married for 23 years.

Knock on wood, PP