>I think you’re being part of the problem. The problem is vilifying half the country — driving people apart instead of bringing us all together.

In typical fashion victim blame those with concerns and never take on responsibility.

>Those last two inflammatory conjectures in your comment are simply not true. It sure takes putting your head deep in the sand or doing a bunch of mental backflips to arrive at that conclusion. Just look at the blood that came out of Trump’s ear to easily refute that point as well as the second assassination attempt. The left was supposed to realize at those moments to tone down the rhetoric. But there’s a bunch of globalists that just want to see America burn.

Of course it's inflammatory to you, you would rather rant about my comment than actually engage with it in good faith.

Funny thing is both assassins was Republican voters, so much for the left boogieman.

>I’m in the middle of it all. Not right or left. No party affiliation and I have more left leaning views than right views. I simply try to pick the best candidate each election, irrespective of the party. These parties have changed so much that they’re unrecognizable from what they used to be.

It's always so interesting that so called "centrist" has to go out loudly proclaiming they are centrists, and yet every time they turns out not to be centrist what so ever.

But yes I agree, republicans have lost all principles they once had and now even the conservatism that has been plaguing it is on the chopping block.

>I recognize that the left is so terrified of someone shaking up their world view with the real truth that they lash out like a venomous snake afraid of the truth and god forbid actually seeing the other perspective. That pushes all of the moderates to the right side. The moderates and the independents decide all of the elections. Probably because we’re able to see through the smoke & mirrors and see the truth.

You can recognize things and yet you cannot recognize "left's" concern, a real centrist would be able to understand the plight of both sides and yet here you are unable to do so.

>The truth is you care more about not getting cancelled or hurt than you care about the country or the results of the election and for that reason, you’ll only make a good decision at the polls about half of the time. Like a broken clock that’s correct twice a day and incorrect all of the rest of the time.

I care about my country something in this rant you haven't shown a single bit off, only that your emotions and feelings to be validated as you've said 0 principled ideas and instead things like "we know the TRUTH! I know what you feel and thus you are wrong!", you've probably done more straw men of me than the mental Olympics would allow for.

>I’ll leave you with one main view, and if you forget everything else and remember this one thing, maybe you’ll have a chance at being a part of both parties one day. The right-leaning party of 2024, the big tent party, today, is just the party of the people that want the ability to perhaps have a family in the future — or already has a family. Period. Full stop. They perceive the self-loathing left as actively assaulting their work to put food on the table, keep a roof over their head, and give their kid an actual chance in this world to possibly eventually have a kid of his or her own. Stop vilifying those people. They feel bad for the left for being deeply brainwashed and mentally-manipulated by powers stronger than them.

Republicans have been destroyed by the conservatives who now in turned have been destroyed by the maga cult, if you call that a big tent then I guess we could say that a clitoris is a big penis.

Republicans feeling bad? where was the "feeling bad" when they mocked Nancy Pelosi's husband being almost murdered by a crazed maga cultist?

Or how about when on a Trump rally just before election they said that everyone in the democratic party are degenerates every single one of them, what a wonderful compassion these republicans have.

And Republicans want to you have families? Sure if you don't need IFV, if you're not gay or trans.

>Why are all of the latest policies globalists first and Americans last?

I don't care about conspiracies like """globalists""", I care about my country, charlatans and demagagues are far greater threat than your perceived reality of "globalists".

>Why are all of the companies instituting mass layoffs?

For different reasons, one of the big one being automation.

>Should all of America have as much crime as Oakland, Chicago, New York City, L.A., and Portland?

Right, you know that's not true? If we go by violent crime by capita it's all republican in the top 10:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

Only exception being California because of robbery, which surprise, surprise is because criminals around the country aren't stupid and will go where-ever the most rich people per capita live, aka. places you bought up.

>How come today, the left is the party of war and the right the party of peace? >The left identifies with the Bushs and Cheneys while the right identifies with >the Kennedys.

Oh cool, tell me which war is USA in right now? How many troops have we deployed to said place?

The left is very much anti-war, they've been echoing every single talking point your side has done, it's the centrists are the ones who have said they want to support Ukraine in it's defense of the invading Russia.

>Why didn’t we cut funding for further gain of function research after COVID-19 >after it escaped the formerly BSL2 lab at the wuhan institute of Virology?

We never funded said laboratory and the lab leak theory has still not been proven.

>What all was in The Twitter Files?

Smoking weed and eating mcDonald's special: Nothingburger

>What is the Deep State and why do we still have one?

Government workers, so that our country can function.

>Who was a threat to democracy? (in the Republic)? Do you remember >participating in any primary election?

Republicans storming Jan 6, 2020.

No please refresh me, what were I doing during the primaries?

>Should America continue having large amounts of illegal immigration or should there be more legal immigration? We all know how Miami and Texas voted.

Well how sad then that Trump ordered the republicans to kill that bipartisan most extreme bill to date, that would have tried to be the beginning of the long array of fixes needed to secure the border.

>How come Detroit Michigan still has lead in their water and there are superfund sites all over America still? The only environmental policy the left
today embraced is global warming.

Because it's still reeling from the rust belt collapse? There's tons of conservationist and environmental policy but maybe my man/woman, maybe just maybeit's because global warming is an existential threat to us all.

>How come the only freedoms being advocated for are the freedoms to turn gay, become trans, and then preorder your suicide pod from the next Dr. Kevorkian! But at least you can abort your kid and not need an ID when you vote! Lol I’m pro-choice but can you see how the masses would find these solutions to their problems… distasteful?

So we shouldn't have the freedom to choose these things or what's the point here? I think the only retarded policy democrats have regarding trans-issues is trans athletes.

>Are you really improving women’s lives by becoming the party of Islam? Or is that talk about women just propaganda and lip service?

Lol, by that metric the Republicans IS the party of Islam with wanting to:

* Ban abortion

* Ban LGBT people

* Limit women's rights such as voting

* Teaming up with Muslims to enact these policy changes

etc. etc.

Are pro-Palestine flags virtue signaling or do they advocate Hitler-level genocide as their supporters chant “from the river to the sea” as they aim to wipe an entire group people off the map?

I don't support Palestine, beyond that they should work together with Israel as it is in Bosnia.

>Out of all of the things the left-leaning NPR can talk about, why did they give an “From to the river to the sea” advocate the microphone? Is NPR where we want our tax dollars to continue going to?

Left-leaning in what way is publicly funded NPR left-leaning? Because they invited on 1 person who has crazy views? You should check into C-SPAN then.

But again how very centrist of you, judging others.

>There’s a reason the right is always more welcoming of the left than the left is of the right.

>There is a reason the right, this election cycle, was willing to have those open debates and go on the most podcasts & talk shows and have the tough discussions. The campaign strategy of the Trump & Vance campaign was to go on so many podcasts that they were uncensorable by the legacy media. As we all know, their campaign strategy worked and people were able to hear both sides. A campaign running on emotions like “Joy” vs. a better economy that benefits all.

Democrats have had their head in the sand when it comes to new media, that's about it, just like Republicans used to have their heads in the sand about cable TV being important.

>If you want to learn more, don’t debate me. Listen to an episode of Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, or David Sacks instead.

I'll do whatever I want, and I sure as hell will not be listening to charlatans as you suggest.

If you want to read about real conservatives here's a few names:

* Emmanuel Mounier

* Heinrich Pesch

* Wilhelm Röpke

* Hilaire Belloc

Or if you prefer to read:

https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Carlo-Invernizzi-Accetti/dp/1108...