I feel like the Republicans are the bad guys

My Terms: 1) Republicans aren't the only bad guys in the country. 2) Democrats have been a lesser evil. 3) Not all Republicans are guilty of all of these things, but a big chunk of the party is, and that significantly impacts the country. 4) Convince me that the Republican Party, on the whole, has done a lot of good things for the country during the past 40 years. 5) I'm sure lots of Republicans are nice people in their personal lives and are great parents for their kids, but blind defense of tradition is just hurting the country. I always tried to teach myself to be open-minded and look at things from both parties' point of view. I try not to have a black-and-white mentality, and for that matter, I don't think the Democrats are "the good guys" either. I'm not afraid of ISIS and foreign powers because our military can crush them. But I'm very afraid when Republicans are elected. But I just feel like any time people are trying to do something good in society, it's always the Republicans saying "NO". They have opposed gay marriage, and their refusal to accept gay people has only contributed to gay people being bullied and discriminated against. They tend to deny (or dodge the question) that Global Warming exists, despite there being a practical consensus in science. Environmental protection is barely a priority for them. They tend to downplay gender discrimination and side against women's issues. They tend to downplay racial inequality and tend to think society isn't very racist, despite the mass incarceration of black people and racial profiling. They tend to discriminate against muslim people (profiling them ever since 9/11) simply because they practice a difference religion. They tend to be older, white, suburban/rural, and often men (a not so diverse demographic). They alienate black voters, hispanic voters, young voters and many women. They tend to pander to xenophobic voters when it comes to immigration. They, by principle, against deficit reduction plans which involve taxing the rich. This is a modern trend. Even Herbert Hoover (as conservative as he's made out to be) raised taxes on the wealthy. They want to repeal Obamacare, but they don't want to replace it with any new alternative reform. They (pretension aside about spending less than the Democrats) fail to achieve balanced budgets every bit as much. They lower tax rates and significantly raise defense spending, creating large deficits. They stand against drug decriminalization efforts and don't mind that people are getting 10+ years for non-violent crime. They believe alcohol is safe and marijuana is more dangerous. They have supported efforts to police the world with frequent military interventions on countries which disagree with American ideals. They have continued to support the Iraq War even years after many Democrats realized it was a bad idea. They have supported privacy invasion between the Patriot Act, the NSA and such. They tend to be the ones that cut funding for education and welfare for poor people. They tend to believe the American Dream is infallible and that poor people only fail because they're lazy (not unlucky). They tend to be against something only because it's new. They opposed Medicare in the past (saying it's socialism) and now they strongly support it. I'm not even going to get into all of the insults and propaganda that come from conservative talk-shows, but there's that too. My belief is that if all of these problems were only caused by 1% of the Republican Party, and that the majority of Republicans weren't like this, the 99% of good Republicans would have taken charge and the bad apples would've been voted out by now.