Question for Other Moderate Republicans Who Have Voted for Dems
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Anonymous
There are a lot of assumptions and over-generalizations in your response. |
Anonymous
you were confusing activists with the Democratic Party. Those are two very separate things. an activist may push the Democratic Party but the Democratic Party is nowhere close to what you’re referring to. However if you look at the current GOP they are extreme. they are a party who has refused to refute the big lie, they have pushed anti-VAX anti-mask agenda, they push election shams, they have pushed these radical authoritarian ideas. You really need to separate what is noise from a group that has very little power to who holds the power which are the parties and what they are both doing. |
Anonymous
Both parties have crazy people. Liberal crazies are more vocal these days. They are a distraction. Case in point: https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok |
Anonymous
| I don’t agree. The Uber-progressive current DC City Council— with all of its terrible policies (especially with regard to crime)— is actually IN power. |
Anonymous
| Twitter is not real life. |
Anonymous
I’m in DC, which policies are you referring to? I’m embarrassed to admit haven’t focused on local gov lately. |
Anonymous
| People vote on issue important to them. I have been a swing voter quite often but currently the Rs seem like the safer bet but I will vote for whatever candidate that seems more moderate. |
Anonymous
- youth rehab act - second chance act - violence interruptors - catch and release, super lax, “woke” criminal policies for teens (see the girls who recently killed the Uber driver) - endlessly raising taxes with a budget surplus (4m estate tax exemption and other tax increases this year) What else do you need? There are so many examples. We are a bastion of liberalism. We voted 96% for Hillary. Basically, Virginia has a much more fair tax structure. |
Anonymous
What nationally known Republican do you think “seems more moderate” right now? |
Anonymous
Enlighten me. Unless you are doing something Nobel like ending childhood poverty you don’t get brownie points for working 60 hours a week. No one’s ever put, “I wish I would’ve worked more” on their tombstone. |
Anonymous
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My DH and I were moderate Republicans but we are at the point that we don’t think we’ll ever vote Republican again. The anti-democratic forces that are fueling Trumpism, January 6th, and the tax “reform” cuts that focused on the wealthy, complete unwillingness or acknowledgement that legislatures have to compromise and no one gets everything that they went, the disgusting state of healthcare in this country, and a host of other factors, have shown us that while the Democrats still suck, and that the woke culture claims make us roll our eyes so hard that we get headaches, at least they will push for some things that will benefit all the people and have the government try to,figure out how to make regular people’s lives better. The current Republican Party has succeeded in the great con - convincing those people who are the most disadvantaged by their policies to vote agains their own interests, and creating false narratives that blame it on other forces, and try to pin it on “Bra**on and the Dumbocrats and the socialist antifa” and getting traction on it because let’s me honest, the left-leaning media still has some shame. That and we’re not interested in seeing the Handmaid’s Tale become a documentary.
Our political position didn’t move; the political landscape moved around us. |
Anonymous
I am VP of Business Development for a federal contractor. I work 60 hours a week to ensure we have enough business to pay a salary to over 100 employees. I worked 70+ hours a week last year to ensure no one was laid off during the height of the pandemic. |
Anonymous
Ok, I’m the PP. you did good work last year. But if working 60 hours a week is the norm I say that’s a really crappy way to live and you should not expect that of your subordinates outside every once in a generation pandemic. |
Anonymous
Where do you live? Because redistribution of wealth is either happening to your detriment or in your favor RIGHT NOW with federal income taxes. I often think people like the way words sound when they put them together but they really don't understand what they mean. |
Anonymous
Do tell. What magic wand do you think Biden should wave to end inflation? And here's a fact sheet on the Biden Administration's action to tackle supply chain issues: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/10/13/fact-sheet-biden-administration-efforts-to-address-bottlenecks-at-ports-of-los-angeles-and-long-beach-moving-goods-from-ship-to-shelf/ |