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What do Republicans / right-wing offer voters outside of culture war issues?

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The right-wing doesn't care about freedom, family, civil rights, workers right, and certainly not all lives. They just want to pick fights culture war fights designed to A) appeal to Evangelical PSYCHOPATHS and B) distract from the grift of redistributing wealth to the rich and super-rich.

Prove me wrong by pointing to a conservative / right-wing policy agenda that benefits the average voter.
 

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The right-wing doesn't care about freedom, family, civil rights, workers right, and certainly not all lives. They just want to pick fights culture war fights designed to A) appeal to Evangelical PSYCHOPATHS and B) distract from the grift of redistributing wealth to the rich and super-rich.

Prove me wrong by pointing to a conservative / right-wing policy agenda that benefits the average voter.
Conservatives care about freedom, family, civil rights, workers' rights and all lives.
 

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For one thing Republicans/right wingers tend to protect citizens having the right to own guns. As in a well regulated militia such as the one helping Ukraine defend themselves against Putin. The same Putin who defeated Hillary Clinton and elected Trump in 2016 if you recall.
 

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Conservatives care about freedom, family, civil rights, workers' rights and all lives.

*Of white christian middle class Republican-voting males.

There are a handful of actual conservatives who fit your bill, but according do that Trumpist bill they aren't actually conservatives. The rest? They shit all over those things while self-righteously claiming to be for them. Soooo...
 
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Pissing off libs seems to be a major party feature.

Between their love of Covid and Russia, we've gotten two big doses of this in the last year.
 

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I mean... alleged "family values" people who cheered when Trump made it policy to permanently traumatize accompanied kids by disappearing the parents, holding the kids, and going "whoops, daddy and mommy gone forever"?

They followed US law to see asylum. That's how they're treated. And family rights is breaking that family because family values.



Family. Should I move on to explaining how being horribly offended at the idea that black peoples' lives matter just as much as anyone else's and thus it's bad to have special police brutality for black people, or is some dumbassed POE shit?

Should I question how attacking workers' right to unionize is supposed to defend workers' rights?



The whole thing is so stupid, dishonest, and disgusting. Maybe it's why his avatar is a mouth with bad teeth. Are these POE posts? Hard to say. We know a lot of....homo sapien.... make them
 

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The right-wing doesn't care about freedom, family, civil rights, workers right, and certainly not all lives. They just want to pick fights culture war fights designed to A) appeal to Evangelical PSYCHOPATHS and B) distract from the grift of redistributing wealth to the rich and super-rich.

Prove me wrong by pointing to a conservative / right-wing policy agenda that benefits the average voter.
See Trump's 2016 campaign positions. Your question will be answered.

It's so simple a caveman can do it.
 

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The problem is that in a duopoly there are only two real choices. The GOP doesn’t have to do anything except wait for the Democratic Party and the American people to be at loggerheads…
 

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Conservatives care about freedom, family, civil rights, workers' rights and all lives.
I'm doing my best trying not to snicker. Civil rights? Workers rights? You've got to be kidding.
 

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The right-wing doesn't care about freedom, family, civil rights, workers right, and certainly not all lives. They just want to pick fights culture war fights designed to A) appeal to Evangelical PSYCHOPATHS and B) distract from the grift of redistributing wealth to the rich and super-rich.

Prove me wrong by pointing to a conservative / right-wing policy agenda that benefits the average voter.
Culture wars are instigated by the left, not the right. Cant you get anything right?
 

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I'm doing my best trying not to snicker. Civil rights? Workers rights? You've got to be kidding.
You snicker because you dont understand what rights are. To you workers 'rights' mean workers must be forced into union shops and not allowed to choose otherwise.
 

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When you start a thread out with lies then say prove me wrong you’ve already shown you lost the argument before it started
Lol, trump didn't even have an agenda when he tried for a second term. Playing it by ear is not a platform. So, tell us, what do these great leaders in the gop do for their base? All those poor red states year after year, decade after decade and you guys keep electing them.
 

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Lol, trump didn't even have an agenda when he tried for a second term. Playing it by ear is not a platform. So, tell us, what do these great leaders in the gop do for their base? All those poor red states year after year, decade after decade and you guys keep electing them.
Florida is a poor state? Texas is a poor state? Ohio is a poor state? WTF are you talking about?
 

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Look at the congressional record. What have the republicans in congress done besides

Tax cuts for the rich

Deregulation to increase corporate profits

Right wing judges to protect the wealth of the wealthy

Republicans exist to protect/increase the wealth of their donors.

Everything they have actually done, not campaign rhetoric, has hurt the middle/working class. Those white working class Americans are fooled by the rhetoric into voting against everything that could make their lives better.
 

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You snicker because you dont understand what rights are. To you workers 'rights' mean workers must be forced into union shops and not allowed to choose otherwise.
Let's see. You work for a company in alabama, no unions and make fifteen an hour with no benefits. A union shop doing the same type of business pays its employees eighteen and hour with benefits and a weeks paid vacation. In your infinite wisdom are you trying to convince me you are going to work for the non union shop?
 

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Let's see. You work for a company in alabama, no unions and make fifteen an hour with no benefits. A union shop doing the same type of business pays its employees eighteen and hour with benefits and a weeks paid vacation. In your infinite wisdom are you trying to convince me you are going to work for the non union shop?
95% of Americans work in non union shops. There is a reason for that that you just havent figured out yet. Hint: this isnt 1930
 

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Florida is a poor state? Texas is a poor state? Ohio is a poor state? WTF are you talking about?
I don't recall mentioning any state by name does that mean I don't know of what I'm speaking?
 

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Let's see. You work for a company in alabama, no unions and make fifteen an hour with no benefits. A union shop doing the same type of business pays its employees eighteen and hour with benefits and a weeks paid vacation. In your infinite wisdom are you trying to convince me you are going to work for the non union shop?
What company in Alabama with no benefits and no vacations are you talking about?
 

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They just gotta campaign on not being the dimocrats. ez win
 

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The right-wing doesn't care about freedom, family, civil rights, workers right, and certainly not all lives. They just want to pick fights culture war fights designed to A) appeal to Evangelical PSYCHOPATHS and B) distract from the grift of redistributing wealth to the rich and super-rich.

Prove me wrong by pointing to a conservative / right-wing policy agenda that benefits the average voter.

Well, if you're rich you get massive tax cuts.
Oh you said "average voter"....NEVER MIND......
 

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They just gotta campaign on not being the dimocrats. ez win

That will be good enough for a Low Info "Gruber" Republican FOX watcher. (y)
 

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The Republican Party, at their 2020 national convention, was expected to define their goals in a document called a party platform.

It is instructive to look up the document. Those who do so will learn something about the stated goals.

Regards, stay safe 'n well 'n remember the Big 5.
 

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The right-wing doesn't care about freedom, family, civil rights, workers right, and certainly not all lives. They just want to pick fights culture war fights designed to A) appeal to Evangelical PSYCHOPATHS and B) distract from the grift of redistributing wealth to the rich and super-rich.

Prove me wrong by pointing to a conservative / right-wing policy agenda that benefits the average voter.
The GOP told me Russia was our friend, they where Trump's words.

Maybe the Republican foreign policy needs work, they are confused.
 
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