This sounds like "It's only politics"Yes. Your voting preferences do not decide whether you're a good person or not, because life is a hell of a lot more complicated than that.
This sounds like "It's only politics"Yes. Your voting preferences do not decide whether you're a good person or not, because life is a hell of a lot more complicated than that.
You what now?Nope.
Interestingly enough, I find that the less intelligent a person is, the more likely the chance that they are or are capable of being "good"/"nice" in a pure sense.
This. It's 2020 and anyone pleading ignorance is just trying to convince themselves that they somehow aren't.No, there are no "good" republicans. Not any more.
If you associate yourself with a group that does evil things (regardless of if you condone them or not) then you're not a "good" person.
Today's republican falls into one of 3 categories:
1. A racist, sexist, LGBTQ-phobic individual. (among MANY other things)
2. Someone who's ok with supporting racist, sexist, LGBTQ-phobic policies and agendas.
3. Someone who's in league with racists, sexists, LGBTQ-phobes and refuses to admit it in spite of the mountains of evidence to the contrary.
I'm sorry but it doesn't matter how polite you are to others or how nice your intentions may be.
Evil is still fucking evil and the Republican party (and it's members) is responsible for FAR too much of it to ever be considered "good".
Alongside this every recent GOP leader (bush and trump) have either betrayed allies or done something really bad (like war) for very nebulous reasons. From the outside one has to wodner what the citizens of the USA think when their government is doing such level of shitty behaviours and the citizens do jack shit.No, there are no "good" republicans. Not any more.
If you associate yourself with a group that does evil things (regardless of if you condone them or not) then you're not a "good" person.
Today's republican falls into one of 3 categories:
1. A racist, sexist, LGBTQ-phobic individual. (among MANY other things)
2. Someone who's ok with supporting racist, sexist, LGBTQ-phobic policies and agendas.
3. Someone who's in league with racists, sexists, LGBTQ-phobes and refuses to admit it in spite of the mountains of evidence to the contrary.
I'm sorry but it doesn't matter how polite you are to others or how nice your intentions may be.
Evil is still fucking evil and the Republican party (and it's members) is responsible for FAR too much of it to ever be considered "good".
Depends (talking about citizens here)
Is every democrat a good person?
You don't have to like them or be their friend, but I think it's unhealthy to view half of the country as evil - and the other half as good by default.
it's like sports, yep. sometimes your team scores, sometimes their team strips rights from vulnerable people and murders people. sports!Yes you can be a good person and republican. I look to people like Michael Steele. But I'm friends with some hard right people. And we definitely disagree on things. But I find if you can be friends first you can reach these people on some topics. It's all like sports. People picks teams and like to root for them.
I'm sure some do, some don't. It's easy to fall into the mindset that everyone who doesn't agree with you is the bad guy, especially with little exposure.I wonder if any republicans think of democrats as good people.
A lot don't, though not really relevant. They think you're a bad person if you say "Black lives matter". There's a fair number of Democrats that aren't what we would generally consider good either, but being terrible people isn't hard coded into the party philosophy. The modern Republican Party on the other hand has that as a central feature.I wonder if any republicans think of democrats as good people.
because some of them at least don't believe it happened. Once again these people are so brainwashed they live in a completely different reality. Yes, partly they are complicit because they don't question the news they choose to listen to and will believe all else is a lie so they can be right but in the end it end so up with them so brainwashed they truly believe it's all lies about their beloved furor.Okay, so explain how it isn't. Trump is a serial sexual assaulter, this is fact. By casting a vote for him, you would have to be okay with that. This is not something he ever apologized for or even acknowledged as a bad thing. Please explain how by voting in the affirmative, by taking a deliberate action for someone who has done that, how thy would not be okay with sexual assault. This is of course just one example but we can stick with this one for now.
If your moral compass said sexual assault was bad, you would not be able to cast that vote.
No, they aren't, but that's not really a counter.Depends (talking about citizens here)
Is every democrat a good person?
If you're a Republican, you are either a dumbass or a shitty person. I voted for "It's complicated" because there are people who are just dumbasses but seem like nice people, but granted I am a cis straight white guy with tons of privilege. I have met people who legitimately say and believe that the Republicans are doing right and care for them and the poor and what not while the Democrats are doing bad things and are just a party for the rich and elite. Just because you are an incompetent dumbass doesn't mean you are a bad person I say.
Like I have met people who have argued that Biden is a racist pedophile while also being a homophobic sexual predator, while believing that Trump is a saint who supports women's rights, LGBT+ rights and isn't a predator or pedo. Obviously, these people are wrong and are dumbasses and have harmful beliefs, but it's people like that which make it hard for me to make a blanket statement of "all republicans are bad people" though I do have no qualms saying that all Trump supporting Republicans are either shitty people or dumbasses because that's a guarantee at this point