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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2016, 09:56:11 PM » |
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« Edited: September 05, 2016, 09:59:28 PM by SunriseAroundTheWorld »
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I find myself increasingly frustrated with the Party on most issues, but I always have been mad about lack of minority outreach.
Here's the list of my grievances: - Minority Outreach: We need to get minority voters. Specifically, African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Female, Jewish and Hindu voters. The Party has done literally everything it can to piss off all of these groups the past 5 years or so. - The hypocritical flip-flopping on Iraq, the NSA, the PATRIOT Act, and foreign policy as a whole. As a Neoconservative, I do not appreciate this transition into "mind our own business" nonsense from the tea party/cruz-wing right. - LGBT Rights: Yea, not happy with the GOP's stubbornly anti-LGBT platform. Younger Repubs encourage me for a more tolerate, future party but the vast majority is still bad on this set of issues. - Free Trade: Screw this Trump-fueled, populist hatred of free trade policies. Its honestly embarrassing that the party is falling for this protectionist B.S. - Term Limits: Like ExtremeRepublican said, the GOP's populist obsession with term limits doesn't sit well with me. The Tea Party Revolution shows what happens when we nominate random people for elected office (EX: Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle, etc...) - Marijuana: I'm for medicinal legalization (with very strict regulations), recreational decriminalization but oppose recreational legalization...but at the same time...I hate that the party is so possessed by this issue. There are way worse drugs that need to be combated. - Social Security: We need to push the right-wing case on this issue more. We need to address the impending crisis social security will face in the future. - Immigration: I'm against amnesty, but I am also for reform. #InB4RINOAccusations
That being said, GOP is still good on some issues: - Abortion (Could do more for Pro-Life causes, but generally, I'm happy w/ our position on the issue) - Israel (Hard to get more Pro-Israel than today's Republican Party. I'm happy as a clam when it comes to this issue). - Defense Spending (no need for explanation)
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