I feel like the Republicans are the bad guys

Hi Cart, I will try to give my point of view. I am not happy with the Republican party in general though I do side with them when compared with Democrats. I do that mainly because I consider abortion as the main issue. I would agree with you on your (Rule 5) that blindly following tradition is dangerous. I think we should be open-minded and not "get into our corners." (1) I am afraid of ISIS because I hear they crucify people. Why don't we do something about it now instead of there being a greater potential for more people to be crucified by them? (2) I personally don't understand why homosexuality is a good thing, but I'm having a debate on this elsewhere, so I don't want to get into it here. (3) For Global Warming, I have heard about models being manipulated, 18 years of raw data that doesn't show a warming trend, a study saying that carbon causes 10x less heating than what was expected, and the 97% number being manipulated by hand-picking people or giving a question that was misinterpreted to give the 97%. Also, there is the NIPCC (to balance against the IPCC at the UN). I just want to have clear, easy to replicate, easy to understand, way to test out Global Warming. It also doesn't help when some of the conservatives point out how Al Gore doesn't seem to follow what he preaches, in using a private jet, or in having a house by the sea-level. I'm not saying this is all true, but that this has to be taken one question at a time, and the average person doesn't really have that time or desire. Republicans shouldn't dodge the question, ideally. They should be honest with the people. (4) Environmental protection should be important, though we should at least do it over things that we agree on as a whole, rather than only Global Warming. (5) Well, women are different than men. I guess the Republicans don't see why there is discrimination. I agree personally that people should be given just wages. I don't see why those wages have to necessarily be equal for women and men, given that male and female aren't the same. For women's issues in general, the Republicans don't see things like abortion as women's issues, but hopefully as a woman-and-child issue. I don't know of any other women's issues you are referring to, so let me know. (6) I think they should help with racial inequality where it is needed. I think that they think that there isn't mass racial inequality left, at least in terms of limiting people by laws or discrimination, though they should still try and help. For mass incarceration of black people, are you saying that they are innocently put in jail? How would you show this? Can you point to specific examples of where this massively occurs? I think Republicans don't see this regarding the last paragraph. So, they would argue that blacks are profiled against because they commit more crimes. Now, the question is, does being profiled against cause more crimes or more crimes are caused when they profile against them? (7) I think Republicans are concerned about Muslims, probably because of the way they see them in Muslim-dominated states. (8) I think Republicans say that people are alienated from them partly because of the mainstream-media and people believing them without doing their homework. To be honest though, I don't really know why, other than I guess Democrats say they are for minority rights (and there is probably at least some truth to that if not more). (9) I think it's a misinterpretation to say that Republicans are xenophobic, meaning they are afraid of foreigners. I think Republicans are afraid of foreigners who are dangerous, such as criminal foreigners. In terms of illegal immigrants, Republicans don't like it, but I wish they treat them as persons. I think Republicans are fine with legal immigrants, though they probably want assimilation to keep the country's integrity. (to 17?)