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Torgo posted...

I think it's because republicans have been lead around by the nose by the worst people in media, religion, and politics... and they are now completely divorced from any ethical obligations to truth, intellectual consistency, patriotism, or basic humanity.

You can try and defend the "official" platform and say you just want lower taxes and "state's rights" - which has also been shown to be a fair weather belief - but the rest of that party is embracing religious extremism, white nationalism, bigotry, misogyny, chaotic foreign policy, embrace of dictators, anti-science, and so many more bad positions.

I think it's even worse than that. So much emphasis is placed on factions and labels that people will consistently act against their own interests just so "their" team can win. I've seen so many self described Republican voters that straight up agree with the far left on many policies when you take teams out of it. This isn't horseshoe bullshit, they have left wing views. However, their identity as a Republican takes priority over their views, mostly because they're so scared of ""them"".

This doesn't change the fact that their actions are harmful, only that many of them aren't inherently evil.