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The Democratic and Republican parties are becoming even more extreme ..

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Today's Republicans are basically 90's Democrats.

I fricking WISH the Republicans would become "extreme" and get government back in its box, the Constitution.

God damn that Overton Window shifted over time. Yeesh.

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if we simply want more emphasis on personal responsibility, stricter violent crime policies, and stronger family values?

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So, you are MAGA.

Anyone who doesn't fall in line with the extreme far Left Marxists are themselves "extreme" ?



Bold strategy, Cotton.

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and a lot of us are stuck in the middle of the insane shouting match.

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"i'M iN dA MiDdLe dUrr!"

You milquetoast lukewarm fence-sitting types are the absolute worst. If any part of you is leaning toward this braindead leftoid shitshow of an administration then you're the living embodiment of the useful idiot archetype.

What are you smoking? Mainstream Republicans are not even conservative anymore.

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Why are we forced to side with the fundamentally religious nutjobs and the hypocritical, narcisistic Trump cultists if we simply want more emphasis on personal responsibility, stricter violent crime policies, and stronger family values?

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Yeah, you are not in the middle... try again asshat...

Seems the OP despises both Religion and Individual Freedom/Capitalism, both of the which this Nation was built upon. The extraordinary success -nws the now-realized and problematic aspects both Spiritual and Worldly - of said ‘success’ does not justify throwing the ideological baby out with the bath water. Fascism ( State control of everything) can be problematic as well. Think Joe Biden and the war-profiteering people who control him. The OP is either a dupe/useful idiot or a Fascist op, imo. Something smells rotten re the canned “narcissist” label for the highly capable and Capitalist Trump. I don’t care if my heart surgeon buys a big airplane and lands it in the back yard of his mansion. Excelling re the goods or services one delivers for public consumption being motivated by self interest seems to be very efficient, especially if our culture encourages and awards philanthrophic enterprises as a further encouragement for the narcissistic but productive narcissistic personality. All things change. We are learning and evolving. And it’s fixing to go hyper-drive.

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Would love to hear, specifically, which positions the republicans have gotten EXTREEEEEEEME on?

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I am an old school IKE moderate. My generation actually believed in God & County, not just just talked about it while being Commie loving heathens.

BOTH sides need to focus on the DEBT, yet both focus on hot button issues like Abortion and Guns.

We have a Corporate stooge in Sleepy Joe
We have a Mobster stooge in Trumpty Dumpty

Both sides have gone extreme in that NEITHER side represent the actual citizens and actual taxpayers.

DJT did not serve his country and disrespects the uniform
DJT is not a true Christian and disrespects the faith

Anybody who supports this disrespect is an extreme Republican in my view and should form another party and stop calling themselves Republicans. They are not the Republican Party I respect from my youth and middle age.

The problem is many in the middle are cynical individuals that always want to stay there so they can be contrarian and try to look smarter than everyone else.