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Kingpoleon
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« on: June 15, 2016, 02:16:52 PM »

According to trends about 45-48% of Utahans will support SSM in 2020. Hopefully this won't damage him then.
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« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2016, 02:20:41 AM »


How can you post this and then CONSTANTLY advocate for Republicans with this and similar outlooks to leave the party for fear of being lumped in with far right crazies and being "complicit" in their every move and statement?

It's completely contradictory.

Because the GOP is unwilling to make the hard choice of having its own Sistah Souljah moment and unequivocally rejecting the reactionary elements of its voter base. Instead, they disrespect the country as a whole by pandering shamelessly to this bloc, and then they disrespect those voters themselves by not even following through on anything they promise them. That is why Donald Trump is your candidate.

I personally would prefer to see a GOP that was essentially the American version of the British Conservative Party - no required position on abortion, acceptance of things like evolution and climate change. People who think the government should tacitly endorse LGBT discrimination because it's in The Bible would ideally be relegated to the fringes of the political landscape and have no major party attempting to win their votes.

But that would require making the kind of changes the GOP hasn't proven it is willing to do.

Putting it another way, if 40-50% of your party are racist, bigoted Trumpkins, why don't you try to bring new people into the GOP to ensure that the Trumpkins are handily outnumbered? Maybe it's because you would have to be more welcoming to people who don't care all that much about abortion and don't think the EPA is an existential threat to their personal liberties.

You're thinking of Cruzites. Trump supporters usually don't care much about abortion or same sex marriage.
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