What Issues Do You Disagree With Your Party On?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Death penalty, gay marriage, inmigration, gun control, crime, environment, energy, health care and just about every economic initiative most importantly.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Oh my, 7 straight Republicans?

Well, you see, when you are a Democrat without a 100% ideological purity, you tend to get called out as a horrible human being no matter how rational your arguments are and how caring you are on the other issues, as we saw yesterday.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Death penalty, gay marriage, immigration, gun control, crime, environment, energy, health care and just about every economic initiative most importantly.

Just out of curiosity, what exactly makes you a Republican?

Pro-life, extremely traditionalist and perhaps reactionary on most off-the-cuff issues (as you can see from my re-post of Hagrid into the Simple Truths mine, I agree strongly that conservatism is a feeling, a gut reaction to certain matters rather than a set of views. So at the heart of the matter, I am still conservative despite my political stances.), finding PC people utterly detestable to the point I refuse to associate. Some segments of the left are just so wimpy, it's truly an abomination and a stain on our greatness.

I'd also add that I'm not a socialist by any means, so don't be thinking of me in those terms - full-on capitalist. I'm pretty close to the middle, lean-Dem like most sane people, but that's mostly because the Republican Party has simply begun putting forth ridiculous proposals that no self-respecting person should take seriously. In decades past, that lean would be smaller.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Oh my, 7 straight Republicans?

Well, you see, when you are a Democrat without a 100% ideological purity, you tend to get called out as a horrible human being no matter how rational your arguments are and how caring you are on the other issues, as we saw yesterday.

This is a very accurate and insightful critique of the Democratic Party. Remember how, back in 2012, every Democratic candidate for president refused a hypothetical 10:1 ratio of spending cuts to tax increases for fear of angering the grassroots? Or how Democrats responded to their humiliating loss in the presidential election by arguing that their candidate was too moderate? Or how Democratic primary voters ousted one of their most respected senators for compromising too much (in favor of a candidate who claimed that rape is the will of God)? Or how the rabidly partisan Democratic Majority Leader in the House of Representatives lost a primary race to an inexperienced college professor because he wasn't ideologically pure enough? Or how the Democrats refused to let a bipartisan immigration reform bill come to a vote in the House of Representatives? Or how the Democratic primary has become such a hyper-partisan litmus test that the one-time frontrunner for the presidential nomination argued that to win the general election, he had to be prepared to loose the primary?

Oh, wait... it was the Republicans who did all that? Huh.

I'm very aware of how reality works. I'm talking about on this forum, where what I stated is a well-accepted fact.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I think you may have to add marijuana to my list. I'm not at all happy about it, but the issue isn't going away and the government could sure use a revenue source. I still retain serious, serious concerns about the enforcement when it comes to driving with it in the bloodstream though. Very dangerous for an even greater liberty. There will be grave scenarios with decent people being given felonies for something that isn't illegal just because we can't test properly. Hopefully we can at least work to minimize the prevalence of it to begin with.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I think you may have to add marijuana to my list. I'm not at all happy about it, but the issue isn't going away and the government could sure use a revenue source. I still retain serious, serious concerns about the enforcement when it comes to driving with it in the bloodstream though. Very dangerous for an even greater liberty. There will be grave scenarios with decent people being given felonies for something that isn't illegal just because we can't test properly. Hopefully we can at least work to minimize the prevalence of it to begin with.

Does 'other' have a position on marijuana?

Well, at the moment I am a registered Republican. The avatar is to signify I don't vote like one.