The problem with republicans is honestly their refusal to believe anything that doesn't fit in with their preconceived notions, value system, and fox news talking points. Facts don't exist in their world. Everything can be written off as partisan bull
espoused by the liberal media and chalked up to 'fake news' if they're in disagreement. But in reality where the rest of the country lives, that's now how it works.
Facts are called facts because they're inherently true. If they weren't, then they would be called opinions, and we all know what the old saying about opinions is.
The other issue with republicans is they often claim to be for small government and say they'd like to get government out of our lives. The problem with that is that it's extremely hypocritical and entirely disingenuous - they literally want to be involved in the most personal decisions a person could make, like whether to reproduce and start a family, or if they're exposed to prayer/religion in schools etc. Then there's the spending issue they have - not very small government if you ask most people who don't have an (R) after their name at the polls.
What they really want to do is cut all the entitlement and social welfare programs that like half their base relies on to live, deregulate the safeguards put in place to protect their base from predatory businesses and politicians, and spend their newly gained windfall on the already out of control military industrial complex and new weapons systems we don't need for enemies we don't have.
If we never built another weapon or fighter jet for the next 20 years, the rest of the world still wouldn't have caught up. Our nuclear deterrent would keep us safe in perpetuity from foreign invasion, and we would be as safe as we currently are at the very second I type this.
The republicans live in a fear based world. Their every decision and talking point plays to this, and makes it abundantly clear. White, middle to upper-class, and Christian is good, everything else is bad and a detriment on society and threat to the 'American way of life'.
They don't believe that others who aren't like them are entitled to a halfway decent standard of living. If god forbid, someone needs a hand up, they're a leach on the system and they act like those people are stealing money from their pockets. They also somehow believe if those people didn't get any of these programs that their tax liabilities would be vastly lower - but here's the hard truth cons, they wouldn't. The government, whether helmed by a dem or con, would find a way to spend that money regardless. Personally I'd rather see it used on the greater good than another $1b fighter or cruise missile launch system. But that's just me, I actually give a
about people.
They also don't seem to mind these programs when it's them who are using them:
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(Usually it's because they don't understand that they are using them as we can see...)
Basically they appeal to the worst in people, and seek out the lowest common denominator, and that I can't abide. That's why I have no respect for the republican party as it currently stands.
It's unclear why anyone here would. The republicans are against trade unions as an institution for
's sake. They would love nothing more than to disband the teamsters and have you making $12 an hour, in the interest of big business.
And lastly, when automation of vehicles is fully realized, and it will be in the not too distant future. Republicans will be the last people to have our backs, and the backs of the other 5 million+ people who drive for their living. They will be right on the side of their largest corporate donors and sell out the #1 occupation of males 25-65 years old in this country - truck driver. Those 7.5 million jobs will disappear, including ours, and YOU might be needing those entitlement programs to feed your family. Hope they're still there for you!
