Why are people Republican?

[Anonymous]

Republicans are worried that someone else might get something they don’t. They are driven by fear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:tired of the high prices, the inflation, and the high taxes

republicans may lower your taxes, but they don't do anything else useful. And they like to complain about the national debt, but those tax cuts make it larger.

So...you are not very bright if you vote for them.

You may pay lower taxes now, but you’ll pay something else later. Whether that’s higher prices, no access to flood insurance, higher medical bills…. It all comes back around. And I promise you, the billionaires won’t feel a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think actual Republicans have either left the party or gone independent. It's a cult now.

+1. I'm conservative but no longer consider myself a Republican after the MAGA types took over. I volunteered on Romney's campaign back when he ran.

Please find new people to run your party. or start a new one so we can have some moderates from both sides actually try to solve problems.

signed
A Dem

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why phrase it like that if you want actually interesting answers and dialogue?

Are there any interesting answers?

Not on this thread, there won't be. You get what you give.

Seriously. If you are interested in how people on the opposite aisle think and operate, then ask good faith questions instead of…whatever this post was.

I’m not as interested in what they think, which is obvious, but why they think that way. How did they end up so broken?

So you are saying being Republican equals “broken.” May I ask how you ended up as a terrorist loving, police hating, close minded loon? What made you so broken that you hate our nation and anyone who doesn’t think like you? See how that works?

DP. The Republican party is not what it once was. Trump has broken it. People who still believe in things the GOP used to stand for are disgusted by this and they won't support Trump. People who continue to support Trump are signaling some pretty damning things about themselves, their priorities and their beliefs.

Your list of things about Dems are all proof of what I am saying, because it's a laundry list of lies that the RWNJs that took over the GOP are peddling. It's BS and it's purposefully insulting, derivative, and divisive. The current GOP does not want to solve problems and help people. It seeks to make people angry and fearful. It relies on fear-mongering and scapegoating, so that its charlatan politicians can keep being reelected and further the causes of the rich and powerful. It's such a racket. It is the definition of broken. You'd have to be a bit broken to support the way they operate and the BS they pull.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because there are still sane people.

Those are the moderate Dems and independents. And the people the GOP call RINOs who dare to speak out against Trump and his cronies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:tired of the high prices, the inflation, and the high taxes

republicans may lower your taxes, but they don't do anything else useful. And they like to complain about the national debt, but those tax cuts make it larger.

So...you are not very bright if you vote for them.

You may pay lower taxes now, but you’ll pay something else later. Whether that’s higher prices, no access to flood insurance, higher medical bills…. It all comes back around. And I promise you, the billionaires won’t feel a thing.

Republicans lower taxes on the wealthy and the whine about the increasing national deficit. Democrats come in and reduce the deficit, only for republicans to do it all over again. Rinse and repeat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why phrase it like that if you want actually interesting answers and dialogue?

Are there any interesting answers?

Not on this thread, there won't be. You get what you give.

Seriously. If you are interested in how people on the opposite aisle think and operate, then ask good faith questions instead of…whatever this post was.

I’m not as interested in what they think, which is obvious, but why they think that way. How did they end up so broken?

So you are saying being Republican equals “broken.” May I ask how you ended up as a terrorist loving, police hating, close minded loon? What made you so broken that you hate our nation and anyone who doesn’t think like you? See how that works?

DP. The Republican party is not what it once was. Trump has broken it. People who still believe in things the GOP used to stand for are disgusted by this and they won't support Trump. People who continue to support Trump are signaling some pretty damning things about themselves, their priorities and their beliefs.

Your list of things about Dems are all proof of what I am saying, because it's a laundry list of lies that the RWNJs that took over the GOP are peddling. It's BS and it's purposefully insulting, derivative, and divisive. The current GOP does not want to solve problems and help people. It seeks to make people angry and fearful. It relies on fear-mongering and scapegoating, so that its charlatan politicians can keep being reelected and further the causes of the rich and powerful. It's such a racket. It is the definition of broken. You'd have to be a bit broken to support the way they operate and the BS they pull.

Absolutely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. How did they get so broken that they want to hurt others so much?

Ask this every F day!!!

[Anonymous]

Cult of stupidity

Sure let’s vote for the Putin party that will install a dictator

Let’s vote for the criminal who will install project 2025
Sure let’s vote for no more hurricane warnings.
Sure let’s vote for liars and traitors

[Anonymous]

Because they like to hurt people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cult of stupidity

Sure let’s vote for the Putin party that will install a dictator

Let’s vote for the criminal who will install project 2025
Sure let’s vote for no more hurricane warnings.
Sure let’s vote for liars and traitors

They're not stupid, though. At least, they don't have all the stupid people.

But they are willing to stick with positions that have been proven wrong rather than have the humility to admit they were wrong, then talk about the importance of Christianity or faith generally. I can't think of a faith based on that kind of arrogance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think actual Republicans have either left the party or gone independent. It's a cult now.

+1. I'm conservative but no longer consider myself a Republican after the MAGA types took over. I volunteered on Romney's campaign back when he ran.

Please find new people to run your party. or start a new one so we can have some moderates from both sides actually try to solve problems.

signed
A Dem

You first. The Dems have become way more radical.

An Independent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think actual Republicans have either left the party or gone independent. It's a cult now.

+1. I'm conservative but no longer consider myself a Republican after the MAGA types took over. I volunteered on Romney's campaign back when he ran.

Please find new people to run your party. or start a new one so we can have some moderates from both sides actually try to solve problems.

signed
A Dem

You first. The Dems have become way more radical.

An Independent

Then you are completely unaware of the shifting of the Overton Window, especially from 2010 onwards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:tired of the high prices, the inflation, and the high taxes

republicans may lower your taxes, but they don't do anything else useful. And they like to complain about the national debt, but those tax cuts make it larger.

So...you are not very bright if you vote for them.

You may pay lower taxes now, but you’ll pay something else later. Whether that’s higher prices, no access to flood insurance, higher medical bills…. It all comes back around. And I promise you, the billionaires won’t feel a thing.

Yet it's those billionaires and those greedy corporations that are now sending supplies to help victims of this latest hurricane, while FEMA is still getting ramped up. It's "Bubba" and "Cletus" who are flying their private helicopters in to help while the govt tries to stop them because they are not using 'the proper supply chain'.

Musk is going to get those astronauts home and Musk is sending Starlinks with free service out to the disaster areas. Trump has raised almost 2 mil through his own Gofundme for the victims. Will the company dare shut that down like they have in the past for other right-wingers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. How did they get so broken that they want to hurt others so much?

Real question is why do educated democrats hate US workers so much?

Contempt

One of the main things that I hear from my fellow tradesmen is how the elite and white-collar professional class don't care about or respect the blue collar working class. This disrespect comes out in many ways, big and small. But you can hear it a lot in the political rhetoric coming out of the progressive side these days. It was there in the COVID conversation, how work-from-home white collar folks pushed for endless lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to be imposed on the working class whose labor they relied on to stay home. It's there in the way they talk about a universal basic income instead of high-paying trade jobs, and in the way they push for low-wage green jobs instead of union energy jobs.

But you can really see it in how they talk about college. Take the latest issue that progressives are pushing the Biden administration on—student loan cancelation. They want us taxpayers to pay off the student loans of the college educated, who on average make more money than those without a degree, and for whom the economy recovered almost immediately post-COVID. Then they have the audacity to tell us that it will help blue collar workers. They want us to enthusiastically agree to pay off their student loan debt, and then have the nerve to tell us it's in our interest as Americans.

That's what I mean about disrespect. And it pervades the entire conversation about college in America today.

https://www.newsweek.com/divide-isnt-right-v-left-its-us-blue-collar-workers-fighting-elite-contempt-opinion-1706053