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You are bizarrely judging a human being based on that person’s political affiliations.  That suggest a lack of perspective, no?[/quote]

So bizarre! Judging someone based on their choice to use their political influence to make other people's lives worse!

What's next? Will we start judging people based on their actions? On the things they say? On the crimes they commit? Is nothing sacred anymore?![/quote]

The problem with your characterization is that it's wrong.

Whatever you may think about Republicans or Democrats, their end goal is actually very similar: maximize the happiness of all humans. The disagreement isn't on the goal, but how to get there. Republicans mostly see this and this is why the general feeling of Republicans towards Democrats is that the later is misinformed. Democrats somehow think that Republicans have different end goals, that instead of maximizing the happiness of all humans, Republicans are for oppression and suffering - and in this light it's easy to agree then that people working towards such goals are indeed evil. [/quote]

Exactly!  Many republican's just don't believe that the government is the solution to all of life's problems.  Just because republican's don't believe that the government should be doing X, doesn't mean that they are against X. I'm 100% against the government paying for college for everyone (which is a current democratic proposal), but that doesn't mean that I'm against college.  I'm also against many parts of Obamacare, and medicare for all, not because I want people to get sick and die, but because I don't believe that they are effective and that we can do better with less government interference and more free market involvement.

Honestly I lot of the reason I vote republican isn't because of specific things that I want the republican's to do (although tax cuts are always nice), or specific laws that I want them to pass, it is prevent the democratic party from doing the things that they want to do, which only make everything worse.  For the most part I'm completely happy for Congress to do mostly nothing and just to cut back on regulations from time to time.[/quote]

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