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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t check every R or D box, so when i am with the Rs I talk about the conservative issues We agree on. When I’m with the Ds, I talk about the liberal issues we agree on. 
See? It is easy to think for yourself and not be a sheep!

That said, I am 100% voting for ol’ Trumpster in 2020. He is a blubbering idiot, but this country is in great shape, and it is going to continue that way until some other career politician from either side comes in and screws it all up again. [/quote]

I am a bit like this person.  I would have been considered a socially liberal Republican.  Pro choice, for gun control, not anti-gay etc.  But that is coupled with a strong belief that the market is best left to solve problems as much as possible and that often when government intervenes it does great violence to the the economy (an example being student loans at 18500  per year--over time this guaranteed check from the government has had the effect if increasing tuitions across the board because colleges know you can get 18500 per year).  So while I see a role for the government in medical care (as we have today) I am completely opposed to a total government takeover.  But I think many younger Rs are like me (i am in my 40s) in terms of social issues and it seems to me that at least the loudest Ds have swung farther left than before so now I would consider myself a moderate R.

My real friends who are liberal and despise Trump do like to talk with me about my views and reasons for supporting this or that policy.  We duke it out.  Consistently their views are more emotionally driven than mine and less informed.  You can probably thank CNN for that.  But, it doesn't feel good to talk about shutting down the border to people who are fleeing violence and poverty.  So many people are reluctant to take any position, no matter how rational, if it can somehow be characterized as heartless or mean or nationalist or racist or whatever.  So with the border, once I concede that I do have sympathy for the people who want to come here, we talk about what they propose should be done (not just me defending what T has proposed or opposed).  Often, they actually do agree with the R view or at least they realize they do not fully oppose it.  It is visceral for many people to oppose anything associated with an R or Trump as Racist or somehow coming from a malignant place.  In Virginia, where I live, I do think the whole debacle with the Governor, Lt. Governor and AG has sucked a bit of the wind out of the perpetual assertion that Republicans are all racists and mysogonists.

With most people I stay mum.  If someone describes Rs as racists or bigots in front of me, I know they are not someone worth talking with about pretty much anything.  They are ignorant and have no manners.

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