I think it’s possible for someone to still be a good person and vote for the Republican candidate, depending greatly on the candidate. If you vote for Trump in 2016 or later, for example, you’re voting for a rapist bigot who wants to be a dictator, so we will never be reconciled.
Same goes for voting Bush in 2004; you’re voting to keep the Patriot Act. Cannot reconcile.
But presidential elections are not the only ones. Local members can be quite different from their party. It’s not common any more, there’s been purges.
It greatly depends on whether they agree on shared facts, and willing to change their minds based on that.
it’s very hopeful of you to think that the party can be saved by people with real principles.
also, as soon as the candidate you voted for toes the party line when you know they shouldn’t, you’re basically the same as every other Republican. do you want to take that risk? I wouldn’t.
the number of republicans who made it to a general election anywhere in the country in the last eight years that doesn’t support at least one main point of dipshit’s agenda can probably be counted on one hand…made into a fist.
I think it’s possible for someone to still be a good person and vote for the Republican candidate, depending greatly on the candidate. If you vote for Trump in 2016 or later, for example, you’re voting for a rapist bigot who wants to be a dictator, so we will never be reconciled.
Same goes for voting Bush in 2004; you’re voting to keep the Patriot Act. Cannot reconcile.
But presidential elections are not the only ones. Local members can be quite different from their party. It’s not common any more, there’s been purges.
It greatly depends on whether they agree on shared facts, and willing to change their minds based on that.
If not, there’s no hope.
it’s very hopeful of you to think that the party can be saved by people with real principles.
also, as soon as the candidate you voted for toes the party line when you know they shouldn’t, you’re basically the same as every other Republican. do you want to take that risk? I wouldn’t.
I think anyone who still identifies as a republican at this point is a fascist piece of shit.
Hard to argue against that. If I continued defending the tiny minority at this point it would be merely pedantry.
Why would a decent person become a GOP member in the first place?
In this day and age, no clue. You have to look way back to find a decent prominent Republican, possibly Eisenhower.
the number of republicans who made it to a general election anywhere in the country in the last eight years that doesn’t support at least one main point of dipshit’s agenda can probably be counted on one hand…made into a fist.
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Perhaps. Although you may have mistaken me for someone who assumes the best of a Republican when I meet them. It’s the opposite.