Well, it depends on which ones you are using as an example. A good number of blue avs on Atlas are exactly like the current Republican party.
say the average blue avatar
What is the average? Most overall posts? Stands out the most? The Median ideology among all of them?
A sample user would be great to help gauge it.
Say someone like ThatConservativeGuy(Though I dont know if he is the median anymore) , or maybe someone like DavidB.
During the 2016 cycle I would say the median would have been Sunrise or RFayette but thats not really the case anymore
Let say Media Ideology
Here's the thing; the Republican party has veered SO FAR off its course, that most of those posters who would represent a close median of acceptability have already been alienated to the point of political apathy about the state of the Republican party with hopes that it comes back to the realm of reason (RINO Tom) or defecting/abandoning the party (Not_Madigan, Green Line, Goose, among many many others). There are holdouts, such as yourself, but you're in that realm too.
If we consider those people to be the average for this hypothetical national Republican party, and they articulate social views such as LGBT and the like in reasonable ways as well as work on finding solutions to the current economic disparity (conservative solutions were once an alternative, rather than doing nothing at all or making problems worse), I would probably be an independent again.
In reality, taking into account defections and fringe holdouts, the answer is no, but I wouldn't be as repelled by the Republican party as I am now.
The biggest thing to take into account is that a good chunk of Republican avatars on Atlas are young and share a lot of perspectives with Democratic avatars because of the nature of our generational experiences. In a better non-dystopian future, I would hope that our generation restores political discourse to an acceptable level of civility.
Does that answer the question better? I think that's the best I can do with how murky things are in the Republican party.
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