RINO Tom
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« on: April 03, 2020, 01:58:40 PM » |
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bronz, lol.
Anyway, of course. I usually didn't share their politics (especially the "populist" ones), but ideological diversity is important to get things done. Things like the Civil Rights Act would not have happened if you did not have pro-civil rights conservatives and pro-civil rights liberals working together, and that goes for any issue. There need to be Republicans and Democrats whose views span a spectrum ... we don't need Ted Cruz clones on one side of the aisle and Ed Markey on the other.
Parties should be big tent groups that are united under a basic philosophy, not necessarily an ideology. Ideally, the distinction between a Republican and a Democrat should be about how each would START to approach a solution (say, free market vs. economic legislation), not necessarily the end result. Similar policies should be able to be arrived at by both conservative and liberal thinking.
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