* The southern border is non-existent. Say what you want about Trump, he actually secured the border where literally noone before nor since has done so. It was very nice actually seeing value in passports, green cards (residency status), and citizenship.
* The military industrial complex is utterly abhorrent. Ukraine needs defending, Israel has a right to defend itself, both should win. Neither makes it okay for us to trickle resources to them to keep the wars going but not so much that it ends so we can keep trickling resources, because the resources trickled are replaced by new resources produced by the military industrial complex at taxpayer expense. Sincerely fuck this noise, my tax dollars are not fucking blood money and I am tired of seeing America partaking in constant and neverending wars one after another.
* The lack of conviction in policies. This was especially apparent in Harris's election strategy where she ultimately ended up saying anything and everything in a desperate bid to garner more votes. Sincerely, that is not how voting works. I vote for someone because I agree with what they say and do; Democrats don't say or do anything other than call Trump Hitler and Republicans Nazis and Americans either deplorables or garbage. I don't have time to waste on that nonsense.
* The refusal to nourish and, if required, protect our industries from foreign entities with extreme prejudice. No, CHIPS Act does not fucking count. Everyone in public office with one possible exception has pissed away American excellence and drive through policies that do not favor America. There is a very real reason that Make America Great Again resonates so much with Americans.
* The inequality and unfairness. In the land of the free and the home of the brave where all men are created equal, bullshit like forgiving of student loans after-the-fact is preposterous. What does that say about people with real financial and life discipline? Nothing good, that's for sure. That is not how we nurture the great Americans of tomorrow; we should reward being responsible, not punish it.
* DEI (Diversity-Equity-Inclusion). As a Japanese-American, I am classified as an Asian and a minority. I loathe DEI because it is literally racial and gender discrimination and I am squarely in its crosshairs. I firmly believe that all men should be judged on the quality of their character, not by the color of their skin or the type of their genitals. I firmly believe that meritocracy is the foundation of an abled and healthy society, and Trump and Republicans align with that philosophy.
* High taxes. Democrats are the party of big government, and candidates like Harris always speak of redistributing wealth. I believe in meritocracy, and consequently I believe that the fruits of someone's labor is strictly theirs and only theirs to enjoy as they see fit. I refuse to vote for such redistribution policies, regardless which side I might end up in that supposed redistribution.
* The attacks on free speech and expression. By far it is the Left who have pursued agendas censoring speech for no reason other than they do not like it. This expands well beyond just America and I despise it, both because I firmly believe in the 1st Amendment and because that bullshit literally ruins my fucking day as a simple consumer of mundane entertainment. Trump and Republicans are champions of free speech, so they will get my vote even on just that alone.
I can keep on ranting, but this comment is probably long enough already. Basically the Democrat Party and Leftism simply do not resonate with me, and that only gets worse as more time passes. I still consider myself a centrist with both conservative/liberal and progressive/authoritarian opinions across a wide variety of subjects, but the Democrats just keep moving lefter and lefter that I've ended up on the Right despite not moving at all.
Democrats don't say or do anything other than call Trump Hitler and Republicans Nazis and Americans either deplorables or garbage. I don't have time to waste on that nonsense.
Then don't. Because it really doesn't have any substance or significance. At all.
The thing is, you're reacting to these signals as extremely overblown caricatures, as being way, way bigger than they actually are, as if they're hugely important and should somehow factor into the decision of what party you should support.
First, as for saying Trump is Hitler, or Republicans are Nazis -- while I'm sure that happens on some dark corners of Reddit (which has no relevance to anything, and isn't worth a second of your time anyway) -- mainstream Democrats (meaning the ones actually running or office) do not, and you simply will not be able to find any instances of them doing so. Yet, in your universe, it seems a huge, huge thing that you apparently think happens all the time.
As for Biden's remark -- it was obviously stupid, but the guy is just as obviously in the early stages of clinical dementia. I've had people in those phases in my family as well, and it breaks my heart to think of some of the things they said in their final years -- but that was the disease talking, not them. Seriously, when you hear that news item, your gut reaction should have been to have some empathy with the guy. And not to think of what he said as having any kind of significance at all in terms of your future or the direction of the country.
Just another instance:
The southern border is non-existent
Of course it isn't -- that's just an emotional distortion, and a rather extreme one at that, completely disconnected from reality. It's simply an empty catchphrase, that some politician (or some other random pundit) whipped up to make you afraid, and angry.
And yet it's the very first item on the top of your agenda.
And I didn't: I voted for Trump and Republicans who at least waste less of my time.
>as for saying Trump is Hitler, or Republicans are Nazis ... mainstream Democrats (meaning the ones actually running or office) do not, and you simply will not be able to find any instances of them doing so.
I'm not going to bother finding more because my Youtube recommendations are fucked up enough as it is.
>As for Biden's remark -- it was obviously stupid, but the guy is just as obviously in the early stages of clinical dementia.
He is the incumbent POTUS and Harris's direct superior, that makes it even worse than when Clinton called Americans a basket of deplorables.
>Of course it isn't
There is a very sharp difference between Trump and Obama/Biden/Harris regarding border control, and as far as I'm concerned I want whatever Trump was doing back. We are the only country on the planet where proper border security is argued as a crime against humanity, and I'm sick of that.
>A real invocation of Godwin's Law is really an accusation of poor debating, as it amounts to accusing your opponent of comparing you to an atrocity so evil as to be non-debatable, which is not only very rarely a fair comparison, but also is very insensitive to real-life victims and their descendants. Usually, it's seen as an act of desperation, in the sense that you've run out of better arguments.
Whatever the law might be called, the result is the same: The vapid use of words as fallback insults leads to the words inevitably losing any valuable meaning.
Kelly called Trump fascist invoking Hitler, Harris called Trump fascist in kind, Democrats called Trump and Republicans racists/sexists/rapists/fascists.
As a reasonable man, all I can take away is that you guys don't like Trump and Republicans and everyone who sides with them. If that's your mojo then that's fine, but those words are otherwise worthless as far as I'm concerned. Please stop violating Godwin's Law and make an argument worth discussing instead.
