Why does the GOP deserve my vote?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why OP considers herself moderate. Her listed positions aren’t.

Concern for people's freedoms and personal medical decisions should be a moderate position. Protecting the earth and healing our climate so parts of the planet aren't uninhabitable for our kids and grandkids should be a moderate position. Opposing fascism and authoritarianism and standing up for democracy should be a moderate position.

opposing fascism and authoritarianism shouldn't be a moderage position. it should be an everybody position.

Yes, before January 6, I thought that. But with so many defending insurrection, I guess we can't call it an everybody position anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why OP considers herself moderate. Her listed positions aren’t.

A lot of issues should be nonpartisan aka moderate, but Republicans have spent decades making everything a wedge issue. Support for public education, health care access, and infrastructure improvements are all woke now. Counting electoral votes is woke. Disney is woke. Bud Light is woke. Confirming military officers promotions is woke. Passing appropriations bills on time is woke. All of those things should be moderate and nonpartisan but Republicans have targeted them all with bad-faith delusional conspiracy theories.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. You aren’t getting answers because I don’t think true moderates/independents believe you are actually moderate. You sound like a pretty died in the wool Democrat to me.

Most of the moderates and independents I have anecdotally talked with don’t think the parties are the same, which is one of the statements where you go wrong from the start. However, they perceive little value in voting for either party. I think there are a lot of people planning to sit the presidential election out.

+1 million

--actual independent who has voted for candidates from each party (and 3rd party) and more often than not doesn't vote at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why OP considers herself moderate. Her listed positions aren’t.

A lot of issues should be nonpartisan aka moderate, but Republicans have spent decades making everything a wedge issue. Support for public education, health care access, and infrastructure improvements are all woke now. Counting electoral votes is woke. Disney is woke. Bud Light is woke. Confirming military officers promotions is woke. Passing appropriations bills on time is woke. All of those things should be moderate and nonpartisan but Republicans have targeted them all with bad-faith delusional conspiracy theories.

Pretty much. The only thing a GOP voter really cares about is “owning the libs”. Until they get hit with some type of disaster, then they come out of the woodwork with their hand out.

[Anonymous]

Democrats care mostly about keeping the borders open. Out of all the disastrous results, you can only imagine which one Democrats like the most.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why OP considers herself moderate. Her listed positions aren’t.

A lot of issues should be nonpartisan aka moderate, but Republicans have spent decades making everything a wedge issue. Support for public education, health care access, and infrastructure improvements are all woke now. Counting electoral votes is woke. Disney is woke. Bud Light is woke. Confirming military officers promotions is woke. Passing appropriations bills on time is woke. All of those things should be moderate and nonpartisan but Republicans have targeted them all with bad-faith delusional conspiracy theories.

Yes, yes, yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats care mostly about keeping the borders open. Out of all the disastrous results, you can only imagine which one Democrats like the most.

Provably false. Democrats care about many issues, including immigration, but to suggest that democrats care more about "open borders" than things like clearn air and water, personal freedoms, and the integrity of voting rights, and a host of other issues is simply crazy talk.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats govern as moderates. It is a coalition party with a lively left wing pushing liberal solutions to liberal issues but the ultimate policy positions enacted are always moderated out of political necessity. There is nothing that Biden, Democrats in the House and Senate, or Democratic Governors and other state officials have done that should bother any actual moderate. Not one thing. Every policy has majority support.

We have moderate government whenever Democrats are in charge. Any complaints should be coming from the left, not from the center. You couldn’t ask for a more moderate government than this one.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I 100% agree with your policy positions, OP. And also consider myself moderate and sincerely believe that those positions should be moderate, reasonable positions. And yet, they're not.

The difference I see between Dems and Rs is that the liberal wing of the Democratic Party is loud and pushy, but not ultimately in charge (for the most part). Their ideas are usually moderated when it comes to actual legislation and official Party policies. Republicans, in contrast, have a loud, pushy conservative wing and their leadership actively pursues the fringe as Party policy (halting Supreme Court confirmation of Scalia's replacement, but rushing through RBG's replacement; enacting forced birth legislation in states throughout the country; working against climate-friendly policies; "addressing" the immigration crisis by separating kids from their parents and putting them in cages).

So, while in theory some of the Dems' more liberal policies are further to the left than my own, the Republicans are so much further to the right as a whole that there isn't really any danger of me voting red. The moderate "middle" leans left, only because the right is so much further from the middle.

That's a good explanation.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m curious why OP considers herself moderate. Her listed positions aren’t.

My opinions are shared by a majority of Americans. That’s moderation.

That isn’t the definition of a moderate.

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Anonymous wrote:OP is not a moderate and her vote hinges on climate change and abortion. Claims immigration and inflation don’t affect them. Ivory tower and all.

Nope, I didn’t say that. Reread my OP. Make your case for your party.

I’m not the PP but why in earth should I make a case for the Republicans? I’m an independent with a history of voting for Democrats (in fact was a registered Democrat for most of my life). I am not voting for either major party next election.

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Anonymous wrote:not sure why anyone would try to convince you to vote Republican when the positions you stated as most important are not in line with the Republican party's current approach to those issues.

No big deal, but the thread is unnecessary. almost weird.

As a true independent, agree this is a weird thread. OP is a Democrat voter, which she should be fine with? I don’t get her motivation at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats govern as moderates. It is a coalition party with a lively left wing pushing liberal solutions to liberal issues but the ultimate policy positions enacted are always moderated out of political necessity. There is nothing that Biden, Democrats in the House and Senate, or Democratic Governors and other state officials have done that should bother any actual moderate. Not one thing. Every policy has majority support.

We have moderate government whenever Democrats are in charge. Any complaints should be coming from the left, not from the center. You couldn’t ask for a more moderate government than this one.

+1

It is simply not true that the administration is entirely moderate, and people know that’s not true. To just pick one hot button issue, the Biden administration firmly supports transwomen and transgirls participating in women’s and girls’ sports, something that is opposed by approximately 70% of Americans in polls. That’s not remotely a moderate position from Biden.

I agree that Biden is moderate on some issues, but he’s far to the left on others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats govern as moderates. It is a coalition party with a lively left wing pushing liberal solutions to liberal issues but the ultimate policy positions enacted are always moderated out of political necessity. There is nothing that Biden, Democrats in the House and Senate, or Democratic Governors and other state officials have done that should bother any actual moderate. Not one thing. Every policy has majority support.

We have moderate government whenever Democrats are in charge. Any complaints should be coming from the left, not from the center. You couldn’t ask for a more moderate government than this one.

+1

It is simply not true that the administration is entirely moderate, and people know that’s not true. To just pick one hot button issue, the Biden administration firmly supports transwomen and transgirls participating in women’s and girls’ sports, something that is opposed by approximately 70% of Americans in polls. That’s not remotely a moderate position from Biden.

I agree that Biden is moderate on some issues, but he’s far to the left on others.

You picked an issue that impacts less than 1 person in every state in the Union. Please do better.

[Anonymous]

GOP House cannot even pass the defense appropriations bill.

Truly sad, they have no ability or interest in actually governing. They just want chaos and to burn it all down.