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    Even Republicans think they're wrong

    According to an article in Huffington Post,

    Fifty-three percent of people, including 22 percent of Republicans, said the GOP's views and policies have pushed them beyond the mainstream.


    It's about time people realize this - especially the Republicans. They've become so extreme that they are even loosing the support of their own party. I should know - they lost me several years ago. I'm glad to find that I'm not alone...
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    I'm genuinely surprised that the more moderate Republicans haven't broken off to form their own party...something like a "Conservative Party" if you will.

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      I think both parties are a wee bit on the psycho side, and I wish there was a calm middle ground party, that was taken seriously as a party, and considered a realistic option for feilding a few candidates with actual elective potential...
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        Yeah, the Reactionary wing of the "republican" party has been pushing actual Conservatives out for several years now, calling them names like "RINO" and such.

        Somehow, Reactionary types seem to be much the same people who go in for Fundamentalist fantasizing about the world in a big way.
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          I truly believe in my heart-of-hearts that most people, Dems, Repubs, whatever are moderates and it's the fringes that are the vocal minority. There are a lot of people who, even though they consider themselves purely Rep or Dem, lean more Reupublican on some things and more Democrat on other things but have found a comfortable spot in the middle.

          I could be wrong, but it's just hard for me to believe that there are actually that many whackos in this country. I know my own brand of mental illness doesn't cover my political leanings.
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            I don't know whether the article is accurate or not, but trying to get unbiased info on republicans from the huffpo is like looking for an article praising obama from fox news.

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              Originally posted by perzephone View Post
              I truly believe in my heart-of-hearts that most people, Dems, Repubs, whatever are moderates and it's the fringes that are the vocal minority. There are a lot of people who, even though they consider themselves purely Rep or Dem, lean more Reupublican on some things and more Democrat on other things but have found a comfortable spot in the middle.

              I could be wrong, but it's just hard for me to believe that there are actually that many whackos in this country. I know my own brand of mental illness doesn't cover my political leanings.
              Trust me, the number is very large. Pretty much every evangelical and charismatic christian is like that (I just stopped going to church this summer, and it's its like that everywhere, on Christian TV, Christian Radio of all types, etc) The support of the Tea Party probably around 30 to 40% (In April a poll said it was 41%), so you can figure that's at least a third of the people in the US are like that.

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                Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                They've become so extreme that they are even loosing the support of their own party. I should know - they lost me several years ago. I'm glad to find that I'm not alone...
                I asked the Hubby if he thought this was what happened to him (we used to have tons of political debates, and now we only really differ on the finer points of things like gun legislation or term limits for congressmen). He says that my evil influence corrupted him. :devilish:

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                  Re: Even Republicans think they're wrong

                  Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                  According to an article in Huffington Post,



                  It's about time people realize this - especially the Republicans. They've become so extreme that they are even loosing the support of their own party. I should know - they lost me several years ago. I'm glad to find that I'm not alone...
                  53% of people think they're beyond the mainstream, that includes democrats and republicans, and every other party. To be honest, that's half the population. That's not significant considering that other half of democrats don't view them as beyond the mainstream. As for a quarter of the republican party, that's not suprising though, especially with the influx of libertarians trying to actually get somewhere politically, because our country is trying to make our system a 2-party system with cash.
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