• Aidinthel@reddthat.com
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    I feel like a lot of this is because non-crazy people find it harder and harder to justify identifying as a Republican.

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      There’s zero justification now. Oh, it’s because you’re a fiscal conservative? Okay, show me where that’s a Republican policy. Oh, it’s because you’re a blue collar worker? Okay show me even a single policy that has helped you. Oh, it’s because you’re a veteran? Okay, why would you support a party that nuked your benefits? Oh, it’s because you’re a Christian? Then why would you support a candidate who embodies every single deadly sin packed into one blubbery package? The GOP isn’t even a shallow shell of its previous ideals, it’s just a wacky-ass death cult.

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    What a wild ass time to be alive in America. I’m sure our whole experiment will end well! If only everyone could just be relatively chill and not feed on drama 24 7 like it’s oxygen.

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    Wild that Republicans are becoming more in favor of gun control. Probably because they’re seeing more people on the left–especially non-white, and non-straight people–getting strapped since both Republicans and Dems have utterly failed to address the causes of violence. (Hint: the tools of violence don’t cause violence.)

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      The change doesn’t really seem that great and there are years missing.

      Also “Gun laws should be stricter” is too vague for the range of policies involved. When a gun control advocate says that they might mean bans. Someone else might be talking about opening up the NICS or want to improve the background checks somehow. There are also a lot of people who don’t actually know the existing laws and want “stricter laws” we already have.

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    And the duopoly prefers it that way. If we are fighting each other we can’t collectively fight them, the cause of all our issues

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      I’d recommend that you take a look at how other democracies do it. Especially the economically and socially successful countries in Europe. The US can learn a lot. But to one side of the aisle that’s “radical socialism.”

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        Europe has been a hotbed of radicalism for centuries, it really only calmed down after germany went crazy and was forcibly silenced ~80 years ago

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      Democrats aren’t really extreme in any way… If anything, we need them to go as crazy to the left as Republicans have in their direction. Instead, they just let Republicans drag conversation ever rightward

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          The Democratic platform is not actually a thing that the party uses or strives to achieve.

          Also, just because “many” think something is extreme doesn’t make it so.

          What “extreme” legislation has the party worked hard to enact since 2010?