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Pretty easy to imagine really.
Republicans are republicans because either
A. they are greedy with the money that they have (or imagine they will have in the future)
B. they are super religious and socially conservative (anti-lgbt etc.)
C. they are gun nuts
D. they are racist
or
E. they are a combination of the above
For some people (like the gay conservative group mentioned here), reason A is the most important of all reasons to choose a political party; they also discount the fact that very many people in the republican party have B as an important reason for being republicans themselves. Until moments like this that is...
What's crazy, from a European point of view, is that they act as if Democrats are a bunch of leftists who would redistribute their hard-earned money, when they would be considered economically right-wing here in Europe. The disconnect is insane "I've got mine, so I'm just going to ignore all the GOP reactionary bullshit, 'cause, you know, capitalism and small government and America fuck yeah."
i was a right libertarian at one time.
The more research i did, right libertarianism just didn’t sit well with me. I couldn’t reconcile their politics because i have empathy. I wish i was lying. These are selfish fucks who twisted the word to fit their needs.