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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre there any "positive" reasons to be a Republican?
This came up in a conversation I was having earlier today and instantly thought it would be good DU fodder. Anyway, kicked it back and forth and found that while there were "reasons" to be a Republican. Absolutely zero of the ones we most commonly hear about were positive. Each of the common reasons was one of 4 things, vindictive, greed oriented, envy oriented, or hate fueled; and most of the time all 4.
I know this goes without saying this this point but they have no platform that will actually help the great majority of people in this country. I wish we could sit them down and talk them out of the collective delirium but if recent events have proven anything. It's that their positions have become unattainable at best fatalistically suicidal at worst , and 0% positive with even the best spin.
True Dough
(17,314 posts)targeted by the KGB. That's all I can think of.
irisblue
(33,019 posts)Just go with the flow, critical thought& analysis seems like a Dem thing.
Skittles
(153,182 posts)absolutely
Takket
(21,616 posts)totally outlandish in the manner in which you do so no one will arrest or prosecute you. The only way a rethug ever goes to jail is if they just leave an absolute mountain of evidence to be used against them.
Different Drummer
(7,641 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Afromania
(2,770 posts)I agree, objectively nothing they want will bring about the results they want; it's completely nuts.
thucythucy
(8,086 posts)that find their way into your bank account?
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)Boomerproud
(7,963 posts)and live a life devoid of anyone who isn't like you, than it would be very easy to be a pubbie.
Calculating
(2,957 posts)If you get some kind of personal benefit from being a republican, yes. IE you're wealthy and would benefit from their pro-business and pro-wealth tax policies. Could also be if you own stock in a lot of fossil fuel companies and don't want a carbon cap or tax to cripple your investments. Maybe you're religious and actually believe abortion/gay marriage are evil. Or, maybe you're just racist and want to see them crack down on brown/black people. Possibly some combination of the above.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Fear. The more hardcore people seem to be in their hate and anger and et ceteras, the more irrationally terrified they seem to be.
Besides the interesting brain science that's been accumulated the last few years, we have decades of social science research showing that the more kinds of "different" people you know, and the better you know them, the less bigoted you're likely to be.
But yeah: I can't off hand think of anything the Republicans want that's not rooted in something negative.