I just may vote Republican in 2020

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  1. Le Chef

    Le Chef Banned at members request Donor

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    I've been voting Libertarian of late but may vote Republican in 2020. (Voting Dem/socialist is not even on my menu).

    The only thing that stopped me voting for Trump in 2016 was my fear that his tax cuts and spending increases on the military would worsen the national debt. And here we are. But ...

    He is finally, finally, proposing concrete and reasonable measures to cut spending snd place conditions on "entitlements". The proposals won't work with the nuts controlling the House of Representatives, but at least he's trying.

    On abortion, immigration, defense, NK, second and first amendments, Supreme Court appointments and foreign policy, I'm with him all the way.

    Am I right as usual?
     
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    You are right. Welcome to the Republican Party.
     
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    So you are not in any way an actual libertarian.
     
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    Sanskrit Well-Known Member

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    There is no real classical liberal option in the U.S. political parties if one wants one's vote to be at all meaningful. Voting "anti Democrat" is the closest one can get.
     
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    There is no such thing as a “classical liberal”. Any historical example you can point to of “classical liberalism” would have social conservative racial, gender, and religious discriminatory laws that obliterate any idea it was “small government”.

    When people say they want to return to “small government classic liberalism” what they are really saying is that they want the government to have special priveleges for white males while letting those same people rule over everyone else.
     
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    Yes there is. You are wrong as usual, and not worth wasting my time further.
     
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    Give an example of a “classic liberal” government.
     
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    Get use to it, any time after a Democrat has been President, you have to increase military spending to repair the damages that were inflicted.
     
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    The government of the U.S. pre Wilsonian progressive cancer.

    To preempt, "classical liberal" means a small central sovereign with strictly enumerated powers in line with Locke and other Enlightenment principles, rule of law instead of men, strong private property rights, etc., and that's all it means, not whatever SJW abstract arglebargle you are going to propose next.
     
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    How “strong” were the private property rights of non-whites or women during that era? How strong were they for homosexuals? How about for non-Christians (or for Christians other Christians didn’t like a la Mormons)? How small was the government for Native Americans?
     
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    Dealt with, nonresponsive. "Classical liberalism" especially the first practical, large scale iteration of it in history, needn't be some ideologically perfect system in the hidebound hindsight of LW SJWs of the present.

    Yeah, pre CE Rome was a "Republic" also despite participating in slavery.

    Next.
     
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    Rome was a republic because it was an oligarchy that wasn’t a monarchy. So was America at its founding. That’s was all historical republics have in common.

    ”Not ideologically perfect” doesn’t even begin to cut it. When a “small” government is only small for a tiny minority of the population, then it isn’t really a small government.
     
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    Yes you are right. Trump will defeat the Democrats.
     
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    you might as well just chnge your title to "I might just vote Facist"

    Because that is all the republican party is these days. A party for old white facists.
     
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    I think if you check into this, blacks and women who managed to obtain property were allowed to vote and to play a role. I believe that the married women that did not vote only followed that due to at one least vote per property was what was asked for at the time. Later people attached the vote not to property but to the individual. This is open to discussion should I be wrong. It is my opinion.
     
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    We fight for the return to you of rights, privilege and taking the law off your back that your honored Democrats insist on laying onto your back. Why can't you see that?
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Time for you to get your copies of the books called the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
     
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    I am in complete agreement with the above.
     
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    And because a handful fought passed the massive discrimination and could vote that somehow means that massive legal discrimination didn’t exist?
     
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    Was Rome still a Republic when it was an Empire? Answer that question then realize why your post is dumb.
     
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    I am not in agreement. As Sanskrit commented, pre Wilson this country had far more freedom.

    And the issues you have were local to the population. They were never federal. You never saw Jim Crow laws at the Federal level. Most states did not have them either.

    This will give you the example to show Democrats love to keep pounding us with laws.

     
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    Seeking for you to read those famous books is dumb? Damn, that is the first time a Democrat ripped me over suggesting books to read.
     
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    Primarily confined to several states. Well, let's speak of FDR. He practiced discrimination during WW2 against the blacks. But ask them to despise the man and they say nope.

    FDR discriminated vs the Jews. Even today you read many Democrats say despicable things about Jews. But they do adore the hell out of Muslims. I don't get that.
     
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    Pre Wilson the country has far more free *for white male Christians, especially if they were rich*.

    Fixed it for you.

    Jim Crow and other discriminatory policies were backed by Supreme Court decisions that reinforced them.
     
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    You don't know what fascism is. Read up on it and I'll debate the issue. Elements include:

    1) Fascism requires a militaristic society. One of the reactions to World War I was the extreme militarization of several countries. Nations such as Germany and Italy believed there was a great need for having the ability to quickly mobilize millions of people very quickly in order to fight wars and for various means of economic support.

    (Trump is anti-war. We are getting out of Afghanistan and Syria. He would never have gone into Iraq)

    2) Fascists reject democracy. They do not believe in governments where the general population is allowed to select government


    (If you believe that Trump will ensconce himself with a few generals and reject future election results, you're insane.)

    3) Fascists prefer a totalitarian rule of one-partywith a strong sole leader (a dictator). They believe that this configuration allows for the country to enjoy an unparalleled national unity of purpose, to have a much more ordered society, and to maximize readiness for any armed conflict.

    (Trump is narcissistic, and probably fantasized about being King, as I would I, but that's as far as it goes.)

    4) Fascism is not solely a left-wing or right-wing society. It can actually have elements from both sides of the political spectrum. Even Mussolini described the fascist movement as one that will strike “against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left”.

    (Republicans? Seriously?)


    5) Fascism causes people to freely give up their ideals out of great fear for their safety. Nations who got the short end of the stick after World War I were quite ripe for a fascist movement because many of them greatly feared the rest of the world. This is a very important element of fascism as people are required to give up their rights in exchange for safety and security.

    (The only rights being given up are the right to speak freely out of fear of leftist thugs committing violence, as against Ben Shapiro, Milo, Bill Maher, Condi Rice, and many others. Fox News has more leftists on its show than MSNBC has rightists.)

    I would add as other elements the violent suppression of labor unions and news outlets by the police and military, which we are not witnessing and which no Republican supports. Not a single one

    You were saying?
     
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