What do you dislike most about Republicans??

[kentuck]

People are people but some are more dishonest than others.

Conservatives act as if they are all successful businessmen and they would never accept food stamps, Social Security, Medicare, or a Veteran's pension. In fact, very few of them are independent and successful businessmen. They are hypocrites, in my opinion.

I really dislike the way conservatives rail against the big government spending and deficits when we would be in pretty good shape right now if not for their "big government spending" and their huge deficits. Can they not see their own foolishness?

I do not like the way conservatives pretend to be Rambos and ready to go to war at the drop of a pin. When, in fact, most of them never served in the military and did everything they could do to escape service. In my humble opinion, this makes them chickenshits.

There are many reasons to dislike present-day conservatives but I will leave room for more comments.

[hrmjustin]

1. They worship money while claiming to be Christian.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. Sadly, I have friends who are Democrats that do the same thing....

boggles the mind. It's almost like money poisons them - makes them narcissistic, greedy and cheap - while at the same time they spout their religion. Very odd indeed....though in a few of them, I can see that it does cause them great discomfort (the disconnect that they are living)

[Autumn]

2. They breathe.

I find that a waste of good oxygen.

[forestpath]

5. +1000

[Flashmann]

11. Yup

That covers it...That they even exist.

[YeahSureRight]

40. Yep their very existence

Perhaps someday they will change my opinion of them, I will ask the Magic 8 Ball……………………

[auburngrad82]

3. I dislike their misuse of the Bible as a reason to crap on the poor

If they actually read the Bible they would not be able to ignore all the references to helping the poor. They're all through the Old and New Testaments.

[demosincebirth]

32. They always skip those passages. Especially Matt 25:40. to that one the respond "get a job

ya' dirty bum!"

[femmocrat]

4. Their sanctimoniousness and hypocricy.

And everything they stand for.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. The Hypocrisy...and black and white thinking...and authoritarianism (both misleaders and the misled)

sorry - that's three things!

[Shankapotomus]

7. Intolerance

Really that's the only sin you can commit which, I think, grants others the right to deny it to you in return.

[onehandle]

8. The are literally un-Democratic. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Probably their hypocrisy.

There are many other thing that I dislike about them, but that tops my list.

It's the one word that sums them up best.

[gulliver]

10. Lack of character.

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Their downward spiral from Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower to George W. Bush and Mitt Romney shows us all we need to know. There are good Republicans, and they are probably feeling a lot of shame. Willingly accepting lying for your own cause has to bother the good ones. Willingly accepting racist, ignorant dogs in your company has to bother the good ones. But even the good ones tend to be human, so they are easy victims for laziness and stubbornness.

They think they are in a culture war and are on the side of good. So they have lowered their standards for their own conduct and character. I see it as more a sad irony than hypocrisy. I feel sorry for the good people who are mistakenly Republicans. The bad ones can go straight to Hell.

[YoungDemCA]

12. Their bigotry, hypocrisy, and holier-than-thou attitudes

[treestar]

13. Their smug superiority, as though nothing can go wrong for them

and it is due to their alleged virtues. Their looking down on people who are poorer than they are, regardless of the reason.

[savalez]

15. This:

[Doc_Technical]

16. Willful ignorance.

It's like a small child putting their hands over their ears
and shouting, "LA, LA, LA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!"
Any words, pictures, or graphs that contradict their beliefs are
dismissed as not true, communist propaganda, or works of the devil.
Instead of thinking for themselves, they would rather mindlessly
regurgitate what they have been told to think.

[GoCubsGo]

31. Yep. Even worse is that they are PROUD of it.

You can put a mountain of evidence in front of them proving that some idiotic belief of theirs is just that--idiotic. And, they'll tie themselves in knots coming up with reasons why your evidence is wrong.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. I hate they way they scream and holler for small government

while encouraging government to get involved in a person's private decisions.

[GoCubsGo]

33. The ones around here have an added layer of disgusting.

They're all "less government-low taxes" types, yet they either collect fat paychecks as government contractors (or work directly for the government), or their businesses/employers benefit directly from those government contractors. They're all having tantrums because of the sequester, and from the fact that the budget for the mixed-oxides reactor that's being built here has been slashed. Some of them are about to be laid off. How's that "drown the government in a bathtub" thing working for you now, assholes? And, of course, the filthbag politicians (Miss Lindsay, Joke Wilson, Sen. Token, etc.) are first up to the trough looking for that money to be restored...

[rurallib]

18. lies, arrogance and the love of money at all costs.

[warrprayer]

19. Personally I dislike them

for taking the top posts in a democratic Presidents administration

[ThomThom]

20. they never acknowledge that they point or position has been shot down

or drilled with so many holes it won't float
then they bring it up next time as if was new and important

[edhopper]

21. Oh, I don't know

that they are slowly destroying the whole FUCKING COUNTRY!!!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. Poor critical thinking skills and lack of empathy.

[mick063]

23. They are football fans

Just an analogy that has nothing to do with football actually.

Myself, I'm a big football fan.


The Republican "grass roots" picked the team that wears red and they cheer them on. They don't actually look much deeper than that. This is all about "my side" winning. Nothing to do with how critical decisions may directly, adversely impact them. How else can you explain a group that supports an agenda that is opposite of their best interests? It must be a casual rooting interest.

Go team!

[Katashi_itto]

24. That they breathe.

[LeftInTX]

25. Greed!!!!!!!!!!!

It's pretty much behind everything they do and say!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. YES!

they don't want other people to take their money and their guns

[ananda]

27. I dislike that they don't get the therapy they need ...

... to rehumanize and connect with those who are different from them.

[MineralMan]

28. They smell of elderberries.

That's plenty.

[ZombieHorde]

29. They vote against my percieved interests. nt

[whistler162]

30. That they keep creating threads asking

what we dislike most about them!

[kentuck]

38. Surely you jest?

Otherwise, you are the most out-of-touch, paranoid individual in your county...

[Smarmie Doofus]

34. The fact that many of their *worst* ideas are adopted by Democrats.

Gradually in some cases. In fits-and starts in others. But adopted, nonetheless.

I'd make a list but it'd be too long and it's 94 degrees here. Here's two biggies:

1. Public school privatization and profiteering. They ( both parties ) call it something else,but I've named it correctly. GOP idea in origin.

2. Basically the whole of US foreign policy. The RW of the GOP ignored Eisenhower's analysis of a military-industrial-congressional ( that word was in the original text) complex,
and the DEMs, post VN, adopted their worldview so they could cash in on the gravy-train too. Thanks. We get war-without-end and no safety net in the bargain.

I dislike the fact that they've corrupted the DEM party.

[Parable Arable]

35. They generally celebrate ignorance and the spread of disinformation....

And enjoy degrading every debate into a screaming match... But that's just one reason I detest them.

[TransitJohn]

36. The lies.

The willful lying that makes reasoned discussion impossible.

[librechik]

37. Right when being a team player became important, they quit being team players

and went on the attack.

They destroyed unions and attempts to work collectively, which are all that we ordinary working Americans have to compete with the powerful corporatocracy.

They ruined representational government through gerrymandering and election fraud.

Used to be that Republicans would lose an election and they would grumble and debate, but eventually bow to the majority. Dems have never forgotten this American custom.

Modern Republicans think it's a crime to work with the other side. Obama is not everybody's president, he is other, lesser American's president.

Really? are we not supposed to interpret this as a racist movement as well as a fascist movement?.

[MFM008]

39. everything

every single thing. I dont seek them out, dont vote for them, dont care what they think, who they are,who they know, what they do,...a little intolerant huh? Im sorry they do to much damage to people, to society to the planet. Plain and simple.

[Laelth]

41. They have conflicted attitudes about women and men and gender roles in society.

Because gender is so important to us all, their being conflicted on this subject makes conservatives very dangerous.

I also dislike that many of them are narrow-minded and don't want to think about anything. Of course, that intellectual laziness makes them unable to resolve the conflict I described above, so most of them remain intractable and stuck with attitudes about gender that, quite simply, do not match the world in which we live. This causes them great pain which, in turn, makes them very dangerous.

-Laelth