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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

Right - and how's that Trump choice working out for them?[/quote]

Actually pretty well-

-4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.
-4 million new jobs have been created since the election, and more than 3.5 million since Trump took office.
-Real wage compensation has grown by 1.4 percent over the past year.
-More Americans are employed now than ever before in our history.
-9 in 10 American workers are expected see an increase in their paychecks thanks to the tax cuts, according to the Treasury Department.
-Jobless claims at lowest level in nearly five decades.
-African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached record lows.
-African-American unemployment hit a record low of 5.9 percent in May 2018.
-Hispanic unemployment at 4.5 percent.
-Asian-American unemployment at record low of 2 percent.
-Women’s unemployment recently at lowest rate in nearly 65 years.
-Female unemployment dropped to 3.6 percent in May 2018, the lowest since October 1953.
-Youth unemployment recently reached its lowest level in more than 50 years.
-Veterans’ unemployment recently hit its lowest level in nearly two decades.
-Investment is flooding back into the United States due to the tax cuts.
-Over $450 billion dollars has already poured back into the U.S., including more than $300 billion in the first quarter of 2018.
-Retail sales have surged. Commerce Department figures from August show that retail sales increased 0.5 percent in July 2018, an increase of 6.4 percent from July 2017.
-Provided more than $5.5 trillion in gross tax cuts, nearly 60 percent of which will go to families.
-Proposed infrastructure plan would utilize $200 billion in Federal funds to spur at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment across the country.
-Signed an executive order to help minimize the financial burden felt by American households Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
-Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
-Signed Right-to-Try legislation, expanding health care options for terminally ill patients.
-Enacted changes to the Medicare 340B program, saving seniors an estimated $320 million on drugs in 2018 alone.
-FDA set a new record for generic drug approvals in 2017, saving consumers nearly $9 billion.
-$700 billion in military funding for FY 2018 and $716 billion for FY 2019.
-Largest military pay raise in nearly a decade.
-2 Supreme Court Judges Confirmed
-Summit with North Korean President Kim Jong-Un, bringing beginnings of peace and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula.[/quote]

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