Where are the Republicans?

I honestly don't think anything will change with politics because it's all about who has / can raise the most money, and nowadays, who can tell the most half-truths / capture the slickest soundbites.  By and large, it is not about people who want to 'do good' for the country. 

Politics in this country is a big-money, lifelong business for (most of) those in it.  DJT spent the last 4 years campaigning (and whining) for this election.  Congress members (most of them) are so concerned about keeping their big-money donors placated that they DO NOT legislate while they're IN office- it's all about optics for the next election, not the work put in front of them.  What other profession is there where you can NOT do your job and still make a shit-ton of money, until you are well into your dotage?!?  IMO, we need some VERY severe changes in our voting / election rules, but it won't be happening, EVER, because the people in office won't ever let it-- if things changed, most of them would be gone in a heartbeat. 

This is the biggest thing I don't get. Republicans claim themselves as these great Christian people, yet they just voted in a man, with no morals, no values, racist, rapist. What religion even IS he? does he go to church? what says he is even a Christian? All for money. MONEY. over everything else. How is that Christian?

This is the biggest thing I don't get. Republicans claim themselves as these great Christian people, yet they just voted in a man, with no morals, no values, racist, rapist. What religion even IS he? does he go to church? what says he is even a Christian? All for money. MONEY. over everything else. How is that Christian?

For some of us Republicans here we are more Libertarians' maybe even most of us.  Fiscal issues I align with Republicans and social issues I align with Democrats. So each election I vote based on what I feel is best at that moment in time. 

I don't really contribute to political threads anymore because even though I explicitly say I think Trump is a shitty person and I don't support his rhetoric I am still a Republican so I am a fucking evil person. No one is interested in the concerns that I have on the country it is just imperative that it is known that the republicans are an evil party. There is no civil discussion anymore just attacking. I am at an age that I don't care anymore so limit my time here as it longer brings me joy.  I mainly hop on now just to see how some of the peas that I do care for are doing and to read their threads.  Occasionally curiosity gets the better of me and I will take a peek at a political thread but have been successful at not engaging in the attacking. 

So until topics can be addressed without attacking I don't foresee Republicans joining in the discussions.  It is clear that our opinions do not matter because we are evil and uneducated. 

-Signed by a Republican who supports gays and also has a college degree

You probably won't respond and that's fine. But just wondering what appealed to you? Pulling out of NATO? Banning abortions? Deporting people who are here legally? Eliminating overtime pay? Tariffs? Tax cuts for the wealthy? I'm just wondering how this will improve the country. 

I’m a Republican who doesn’t discuss politics because I hate arguing. You aren’t going to change me, I’m not going to change you, so live and let live.

I'm a lifelong Republican, but not a fan of Trump. I'm reserved, I've posted a few bi-partisan statement/threads and were attacked. No one wants to be open-minded or kind to those that don't feel the same way they do.

I feel that the choices in this and all recent elections are so poor. I do fear for our country and grandkids future.

One of my biggest concerns is the astonishingly high debt this nation is carrying. Someday, someway, somehow this has to be fixed. We can't continue to print money, promise this and than and not think about where it is coming from. Yes, my bottom line is what matters to me( Cost of groceries, gas, taxes,etc) however, it isn't all about ME, Who is going to pay back this debt that continues to accumulate. I feel that Republicans are marginally more fiscally responsible.

That's my 2 cents.

Thank you for starting this thread and acknowledging that there are still Republicans here. :-)

Here is what I don't understand on tariffs. They didn't go away after Trump left. I have 5 invoices from different companies in front of me that I just paid and all have the tariff line item that started when Trump put them in place during his 1st term. There are more than just these 5 companies that have it on their invoice but those are just the ones that were scheduled to be paid today. So why the talk of prices going up once the tariffs hit because they are already there.

I think it will be interesting to see how many complain about the leopards eating their faces over the next four years. 

It baffles me that we do not have term limits for Congress.

In the past -- i.e., when we had normal politics, and real Republicans -- Democrats reacted as you said when a Republican won.... Some sadness, some eye-rolling perhaps, then life went on. Those who were more politically inclined probably continued to support their local candidates, those who were not just went on with their lives.

However... all that was with candidates and election winners who did not hurl racial insults at entire groups of people, threaten physical harm to those he doesn't like, choose a Christian Nationalist as his vice president, threaten to take control over women and their bodies, plan to chop at the federal government and public education, threaten our LGBTQ friends and family... 

If you can't see any difference between the old days and this new reality then you are too far gone for any of us to try even to discuss it. 

Laurie from what I read about tariffs, they can sometimes be effective if used in a very specific way. But what Trump is proposing is a tariff (from 20% to 1000%, IIRC) on ALL imported goods. He thinks that the companies will pay that tariff without raising prices, which is ludicrous. Even when he was talking at the Chicago Economic Club he told the interviewer that he knew more about tariffs and the economics of them than the expert.

How did the tariffs affect your companies prices and/or bottom line?

You chose to overlook spoiled, rancid meat, while I chose to overlook the garnish.

We are not the same.