US Politics on Sidechat | The problem with the Democratic Party is that they feel the need to constantly morality check and police others and whenever someone disagrees with them they start screaming that they are a racist, homophobic, sexist etc. pushing moderates more right

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The problem with the Democratic Party is that they feel the need to constantly morality check and police others and whenever someone disagrees with them they start screaming that they are a racist, homophobic, sexist etc. pushing moderates more right

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Anonymous 6d

How do you feel about Republicans trying to put up the Ten Commandments in classrooms and threatening media outlets that criticize the Republican party? In a sense would you call that “policing morality?”

Anonymous 6d

the problem w the democratic party is they dont address people’s material conditions

Anonymous 6d

Have you considered not being racist, homophobic, sexist ect.

Anonymous 6d

how do you feel about republicans and conservative media calling anyone a pedophile when they associate with the lgbtq community

Anonymous 6d

ya know what, (as a leftist) i actually don’t disagree, when discussing topics like racism/sexism/homophobia i try to only make statements about what was said rather than a value judgement on the individual (ie i don’t think you yourself have ill intentions but what you just said does) it’s better for conversation. you catch more flies with honey and all that

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Anonymous 6d

This way of thinking is a bit naive, don’tcha think?

Anonymous 6d

I say this as a moderate who has only been pushed more and more right as I see how democrats treat non democrats. I don’t 100% agree with any party. And if you blindly follow any party you have issues also

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Anonymous

OP 6d

ur kinda a pussy sorry

Anonymous

#1 6d

This

Anonymous

#2 6d

I don’t agree with it, but also they don’t call me racist, sexist, and homophobic just because I don’t agree with it… they respect my opinion. Crazy concept I know 🤯

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Anonymous

OP 6d

did it hurt your feelings?

Anonymous

#4 6d

The majority don’t, and the ones that do aka. (far right/ MAGA ) I don’t agree with.

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Anonymous

OP 6d

Sounds like the only outcome you care about is your feelings not getting hurt. Weird.

Anonymous

#3 6d

Sure I care about how people treat me, if I claim to be a democrat but disagree with a certain idea and get crucified for it why would I keep being a democrat or moderate. I’m going to go to the people that treat me as an equal and not an enemy despite differing opinions

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Anonymous

OP 6d

ur actually crying while typing this

Anonymous

OP 6d

I can’t speak to your personal experiences, but I for the life of me can’t imagine how enabling extreme executive branch overreach and bricking our economy with tariffs is preferable to preserving my feefees.

Anonymous

OP 6d

Well I’m trying to be respectful of your opinion. And might I add that I’ve also been called plenty of names by Republicans online for disagreeing with them. So have you considered they maybe just don’t call you names because you’re “on their side?”

Anonymous

#3 6d

Just because I identify as a republican doesn’t mean I agree with the current state of things. I actually hate trump and a lot of my conservative friends do as well. Y’all tend to mix MAGA with conservatives when maybe that was true in the 2016 election. They’ve became there own separate thing in my book

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Anonymous

OP 6d

Who did you vote for?

Anonymous

OP 6d

okay so ur a republican and democrats don’t like you? groundbreaking

Anonymous

#2 6d

Good point, I think where it mainly differs is how they react when we do disagree. In my experience if I’m not 100% on board with democrats way of thinking then I’m an enemy. And if I’m not 100% with conservative we can still be friends. Like I said earlier I’m more moderate I agree with democrats on something but because I wasent 100% they treated me as an enemy. In fairness thats not everyone same as with your experience with being called names by conservatives.

Anonymous

#3 6d

I didn’t

Anonymous

OP 6d

that’s not how you should determine ur politics or ur world view bro maybe one day you’ll see that that is a little childish

Anonymous

OP 6d

Fair enough; I trust that you also don’t live in a swing state, given that you felt your vote was not necessary?

Anonymous

OP 6d

I guess I’m just wondering why others saying rude things to you would influence your beliefs? I would say I align pretty far left, but I’ve certainly experienced hostility from other people who are on the left when we might not agree on something. That’s kinda just life, no? You run into people who are hotheaded or can’t accept they might be wrong about something.

Anonymous

#3 6d

Ya I’m in Louisiana, I didn’t like either option so I just let it be.

Anonymous

#2 6d

They don’t necessarily influence my beliefs, rather affirm them if that makes sense. Say I voted for trump, and then I realize “oh wait this guy is actually evil” everyone I’ve seen on here and I’ve interacted with would rather dig into the fact that I voted for him than have an actual conversation about why I changed my mind. And say I voted for Biden and thing later “wait this guy isn’t fit for office” republicans don’t care that I voted for him rather just have a conversation about it.

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Anonymous

#2 6d

Given are wildly different opinions I don’t think we are gonna get to an agreement or full understanding tbh, but I do appreciate you actually talking and not be hostile about it 🫡

Anonymous

OP 6d

Just to be clear, the only reason that I pushed you so hard on finding out who you voted for was because some of your answers seemed to suggest that the primary driver of your political decisions was based on which faction was nicer to you. Once it became clear that that impression was false, I dropped it.