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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people in MoCo are smart and operate with good faith.  The Trump supporters are (i) stupid/racist, or (ii) greedy, or (iii) both.[/quote]

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There is a huge gap between liberals and Trump supporters.  While Montgomery County tends to  lean left, there are moderates and conservatives who while they may not espouse the popular liberal positions, don't support Trump either.  The problem I've had (even before Trump) is that with most of the MC county liberals "operating with good faith", if you don't automatically agree with the liberal position you are "(i) stupid/racist, or (ii) greedy, or (iii) both".  I thought liberals were supposed to be open minded, but never have I encountered such rabid intolerance of differences than I've encountered from the liberals in Montgomery County.

Personally, I tend to be politically conservative but am a registered independent.  While I think that liberal political correctness can be nuts, and disagree with Democrats on significant issues, I also think that Republicans have been wrong on several significant issues including the environment/climate change, gun control, health care, and the need to do something about the cost of higher education.

Trump, and the current Republican party, I in no way support.  More than opposing their individual policies, I think they are inflicting damage to the instititions of the Presidency and the Congress.  I think the Democrats, on the other hand, are at fault for letting them do it.  Trump should have been impeached already.  Waiting for poll numbers to spontaneously turn against Trump, they are shirking their constitutional responsibilities and compromising the power of impeachment.[/quote]

I don't know if you're going to looking at this thread again, but I found this comment very interesting.

For context, I used to consider myself a bleeding heart liberal, although I'll admit I'm not particularly happy with the Democrats move to the left.  I disagree on some of the policy shifts by the left wing of the party, but mostly I just don't like their approach.  I wish they would focus more on a legislative plan that has some chance of moving forward, and tone down the rhetoric.  But at the end of the day, what's most important is what gets done.  And in any plausible world, I'm absolutely going to prefer the policies that would get enacted by Democratic leaders over Republican leaders.

And that's sort of what I found interesting about your post.  You mentioned a number of key issue areas where it sounds like you would side more with the Democrats, but still describe yourself as a conservative despite the path the Republicans have been on for quite some time.  Perhaps I'm biased, because those four issues are definitely in my top six public policy concerns, but if those are similarly important to you, what's stopping you from aligning with the Democrats.  The only specific thing you mentioned was basically rhetoric, perhaps alluding to the liberal "purity test" that seems to be going on within the party.  Is that it?  Or are there are areas, perhaps like taxes, non-health-care-related welfare programs, and immigration, that are keeping you from backing the Democrats?

I also find it interesting that anyone besides a bleeding heart liberal would be so supportive of impeachment proceedings.  There's probably a good chance I like Trump's policies even less than you, but I would absolutely consider impeachment proceedings to be a massive waste of time.  There's no chance of removal.  Perhaps if the investigations found a previously-unknown smoking gun that could have been different, but that didn't happen.  Absolutely there was a shady relationship between Trump, the campaign and Russia.  And I'd say he absolutely crossed lines of appropriateness during the investigations.  But it's not clear he did anything criminal, and while it pains me to say it, I don't think the population as a whole has a particular problem with it.  Particularly with where we are in the term, it seemed clear to me that the right path was/is to put this up to the voters.[/quote]

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