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Re: How Republicans saw their debate 

By: Down And Out Man in ALEA | Recommend this post (1)
Sat, 31 Oct 15 1:08 AM | 91 view(s)
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I am curious where you see yourself.

I'm a person that shares some views with each party and is at odds with much of each. I do not favor the two party system, and think there is a glaring need for something in the middle.

How do you distinguish your views from those of the Republican Party?

I have zero interest in abortion, I don't want the ten commandments posted, I do not want religion involved in government, I think it's nuts to have six Catholics on the Supreme Court, I couldn't care less whether or not you're an Evangelical - as long as you keep your religious views out of my government.

I think Wall Street is almost EVIL and needs to be reigned in. I think there should probably be a different, more "punitive" tax rate for income derived by the likes of hedge funds...or corporate CEOs that make 1,000 times what their workers do.

I think we need to raise the SS retirement age, and probably tweak the rate higher.

I *think* I'm in favor of universal health care. Or something WAY different than what we had, or now have with ObamaCare

I could probably come up with a lot more, if I thought for another minute or two about it.

saw the media as victimising the GOP

You missed my point. Not victimizing. Wasting/ruining a chance for me to learn positions/philosophies from the candidates.

Not that you can ever find a Republican who admits to listening to Limbaugh or watching Fox News.

I'm not a Republican. I have never watched/listened to Rush. I do watch Shepard Smith on Fox.

I'll finish later, I've got to run.


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Re: How Republicans saw their debate
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sat, 31 Oct 15 12:17 AM 		Msg. 17486 of 54959

Hi D&O.

I am curious where you see yourself. How do you distinguish your views from those of the Republican Party? I kinda get the sense that you share quite a lot, especially on the economics. But maybe I am wrong.

eg if I was 0% HRC, saw the media as victimising the GOP, felt that exposing Trump as a clown was a bad thing - I'd think that I was consuming and swallowing right wing media (which is whence these things emanate) and that I probably have a strong rightwards leaning. Not that you can ever find a Republican who admits to listening to Limbaugh or watching Fox News. And yet, somehow, they hear them and adopt the same views.

It wouldn't be right to disavow the party just because their ideas have caused so many calamities. It's the ideas that don't work. The party people merely impose them. eg the NeoCon obsession with using the military to solve regional problems, the loosening of regulations that led to the security products which destroyed the economy, austerity measures that added to the harms, blaming the poor for their situation. It doesn't really matter that Bush was president during a long series of disasters. He held right/Republican types of doctrines. And anyone who holds them has to explain why it is they think they will work better in the future than they did in the past.

I agree that comparing answers is a good thing. But I would have each candidate in a sound-proof room while the other candidate answers the question.

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