re: Why is being a moderate... whether Dem or Republican.... so frowned upon in 2017?

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I am a center-right Repub who thinks that the far right is as bad for America as the far left.

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Yeah, I'm gonna have to downvote.

One day your back will be aching getting up from your required prayers to Mecca, and your fingers will be burnt and stained from baking gay wedding cakes. Your son will look you in the eye and say "dad I've been watching a lot of sesame street and I was supposed to be born a girl"

You'll look at the ground, shake your head, and think to yourself "I should've been far right"

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I am a center-right Repub who thinks that the far right is as bad for America as the far left. But to many I am a "RINO" or somesuch thing.

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What are 5 specific "center-right Repub" positions you hold that run counter to the "far right" that might make me think you are a "RINO" or somesuch thing?

I felt dirty voting for Johnson in 2012 and 2016.

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I am fiscally conservative, but I realize we have to pay for the infrastructure that makes our society civilized. I don't care much about social issues like gay marriage. I don't give two shits about social justice. I care about my 401k. I care about not getting killed by raghead terrorists. I just want to live my life in peace, in a peaceful and prosperous society. Why am I vilified?

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vilified isn't the word I would use to describe this mentality.

You are wishing for something that can't/won't happen. When you realize that there are people out there on both sides that want to abuse you you have to stand up and attempt to do something about it. It is as if "moderate" means I don't want to have any involvement in my government.

You'll wake up one day and they will have taxed the hell out of that 401k that you have built because someone else needs it and you don't need all that money.

I think it's mostly that this new form of government our founding fathers gave us, assumed that this government would be by and for principled people with very similar values ideals and goals.

I don't think moderates are viewed as very principled people.

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I am fiscally conservative, but I realize we have to pay for the infrastructure that makes our society civilized.

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Infrastructure isn't what makes our society civilized. It's decency, and respect for each other and ourselves as human beings. Nanny state government has removed that decency, and self respect for a whole segment of our society. If your principles and ideals tell you that a limited, de-centralized government is good for the people, but vote for ever more taxes to prop up "infrastructure" when the working people left in this country already pay 30-50% of their earnings in taxes in one form or another, then you have no principles regarding the size and scope of government, you just think you do.

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I don't care much about social issues like gay marriage. I don't give two shits about social justice.

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If your disregard for these things is so deep that you ignore the fact that some in our society and government are using that disregard to make themselves the face of the government and authority over such things, then you have no principles regarding the freedom of each individual, codified in the Constitution. The people who do give two shits about these things, are using the force of government to make people behave and live the way they desire.

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I care about my 401k.

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And yet the people that you side with at least part of the time spend a lot of their time trying to destroy the businesses that your 401K is invested in.

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I care about not getting killed by raghead terrorists.

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And yet the people you make more powerful by supporting and voting for at least part of the time desire open borders and want to import refugees from terrorist countries by the tens or hundreds of thousands with little regard for security, or desire to have these people assimilate into our society.

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I just want to live my life in peace, in a peaceful and prosperous society. Why am I vilified?

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Because everyone has a different idea of exactly how that goal is achieved. You want peace? Many socialist democrats believe that a great first step would be to disband our military, ignoring the Constitution. Others believe in peace through strength. Socialist democrats believe that it would be more peaceful if guns were outlawed and only criminals and the police had them, again ignoring the Constitution. Others believe that peace can only be achieved by being able to defend yourself and your loved ones, making it a better proposition for those who would disturb that peace, to leave you alone.

Pick a side brother. Try to change the things you disagree with, don't like, or can't accept about your side, but pick one and support it.

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So burdening the Social Security system with additional survivor's benefits that likely will have to be funded by the taxpayer -- literally overnight -- doesn't give your fiscally conservative side a reason to pause?

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I got brain cancer reading this.

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Why is being a moderate... whether Dem or Republican.... so frowned upon in 2017?

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Because most moderates consider facts and in today's world ideology is more important than facts.