Just found out that a nice person I know is a Republican

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

Any sane person would conclude they can't be both. A Republican is a person who is okay with putting kids in cages, looks the other way when wealthy tyrants murder journalists, or believes there are good people on both sides... This is not a good person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

Any sane person would conclude they can't be both. A Republican is a person who is okay with putting kids in cages, looks the other way when wealthy tyrants murder journalists, or believes there are good people on both sides... This is not a good person.

Not again. .. that famous and horrible pic of kids in cages was from Obama!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

Any sane person would conclude they can't be both. A Republican is a person who is okay with putting kids in cages, looks the other way when wealthy tyrants murder journalists, or believes there are good people on both sides... This is not a good person.

Not again. .. that famous and horrible pic of kids in cages was from Obama!

yes
Obama
It's convenient to forget.

Another former Obama official, Cecilia Muñoz, who served as the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, offered a similar explanation to NPR.

"In 2014, we saw an enormous spike compared to what usually happens every year, in the number of kids crossing alone into the United States," she said. "And we didn't have enough shelter facilities, because we had a huge increase, so kids ended up piling up in Border Patrol lock-ups, which are no places for children."

https://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like I said, my post is sincere

I don't think all Republicans are horrible people but I also think almost all Republican political actions are horrible

How can I make sense of this?

The world they live in is drastically different than yours.
Sincerely: you cannot comprehend it because you have not spent enough significant time outside the bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

1) Given all the promises democrats have made over the past generations via ponzi schemes like social security and medicare, you can bet future generations will pay. Look at the debt and what programs are running short. That's all you need to know. Check the social security trustees reports for verification.
2) It was democrats who stol 800 billion from medicare and gave it to obamacare. They had no right to transfer those funds.
3) It was Jimmy Carter who opened up social security to the disabled non-payers. It was not meant for that. Today, that system is highly gamed.
4) Interesting how every SCOTUS pick the left doesn't like is suddenly Borked.
5) Trump autocratic? No. That's the top-down iron-fisted progressives pushing their agendas through the presidency and congress when they can, and through the judiciary when they can't.
6) Obstructing justice? You mean like having a tet-a-tet between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch ex-parte during an ongoing federal investigation?
7) The DNC and the Press - one organization with one purpose. The fourth estate needs to be attacked more for their leftist agendas and not practicing real journalism. They're not even trying to hide their bias anymore!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like I said, my post is sincere

I don't think all Republicans are horrible people but I also think almost all Republican political actions are horrible

How can I make sense of this?

The world they live in is drastically different than yours.
Sincerely: you cannot comprehend it because you have not spent enough significant time outside the bubble.

+1.

And a bubble it is -- people living in 90% of the country would probably think OP is making a joke with his funny dilemma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

Perhaps you can stop listening to whoever put those stupid ideas in your head. I would rather befriend a kind Republican that a jerk Democrat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

You can begin by entertaining a possibility that the Democratic party failed to offer compelling solutions to the challenges faced by millions of people in this country. The fact that these people are different from you and lived in different communities doesn't make them less deserving to vote or shape the path this country takes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

Perhaps you can stop listening to whoever put those stupid ideas in your head. I would rather befriend a kind Republican that a jerk Democrat.

Really? Because they all seem like big focking assholes to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

You can begin by entertaining a possibility that the Democratic party failed to offer compelling solutions to the challenges faced by millions of people in this country. The fact that these people are different from you and lived in different communities doesn't make them less deserving to vote or shape the path this country takes.

+1.

Somehow Democrats have become Anti-democrats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

Perhaps you can stop listening to whoever put those stupid ideas in your head. I would rather befriend a kind Republican that a jerk Democrat.

Really? Because they all seem like big focking assholes to me.

Here's a mirror, you hater.

[Anonymous]

OP, I know lots of really good Republicans. I know lots of really good Conservatives. I don't know any good people who support Trump. That's the line. You cannot be a good person and a Trump supporter. They are incompatible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I know lots of really good Republicans. I know lots of really good Conservatives. I don't know any good people who support Trump. That's the line. You cannot be a good person and a Trump supporter. They are incompatible.

67 million Americans voted for Trump, crazy guy.

I wasn't one of them, but I find your tone insulting and deeply undemocratic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

1) Given all the promises democrats have made over the past generations via ponzi schemes like social security and medicare, you can bet future generations will pay. Look at the debt and what programs are running short. That's all you need to know. Check the social security trustees reports for verification.
2) It was democrats who stol 800 billion from medicare and gave it to obamacare. They had no right to transfer those funds.
3) It was Jimmy Carter who opened up social security to the disabled non-payers. It was not meant for that. Today, that system is highly gamed.
4) Interesting how every SCOTUS pick the left doesn't like is suddenly Borked.
5) Trump autocratic? No. That's the top-down iron-fisted progressives pushing their agendas through the presidency and congress when they can, and through the judiciary when they can't.
6) Obstructing justice? You mean like having a tet-a-tet between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch ex-parte during an ongoing federal investigation?
7) The DNC and the Press - one organization with one purpose. The fourth estate needs to be attacked more for their leftist agendas and not practicing real journalism. They're not even trying to hide their bias anymore!

All truths

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can I reconcile their kindness to me one on one with the Republican policies and actions that are taking away people's healthcare, making future generations pay for tax cuts for today's super rich, tainting our supreme court with partisan operatives with a history of sex assault allegations and undermining our democracy with Trump's swampy cabinet and autocratic attitude about attacking the press and obstructing justice?

My post is sincere. I think the modern GOP is basically evil so I am having a hard time understanding how someone can still be a Republican if they are a decent person.

1) Given all the promises democrats have made over the past generations via ponzi schemes like social security and medicare, you can bet future generations will pay. Look at the debt and what programs are running short. That's all you need to know. Check the social security trustees reports for verification.
2) It was democrats who stol 800 billion from medicare and gave it to obamacare. They had no right to transfer those funds.
3) It was Jimmy Carter who opened up social security to the disabled non-payers. It was not meant for that. Today, that system is highly gamed.
4) Interesting how every SCOTUS pick the left doesn't like is suddenly Borked.
5) Trump autocratic? No. That's the top-down iron-fisted progressives pushing their agendas through the presidency and congress when they can, and through the judiciary when they can't.
6) Obstructing justice? You mean like having a tet-a-tet between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch ex-parte during an ongoing federal investigation?
7) The DNC and the Press - one organization with one purpose. The fourth estate needs to be attacked more for their leftist agendas and not practicing real journalism. They're not even trying to hide their bias anymore!

All truths

If by "truths" you mean "typical right-wing untruths that herald subterfuge ", then, yeah.