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Originally Posted by Robbie
I could keep on going. But you get the picture. I'm my own man. I guess I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal...probaby a libertarian if I were to analyze it more closely.
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Well aside from the fact that Democrats as the "tax and spend" party is a myth ( a. Bush did just fine spending like a drunk 16 year old with daddy's credit card b. in fact every republican president in your lifetime or mine ran up the deficit by huge amounts c. only CLINTON balanced the budget and left a surplus and d. Obama hasn't raised your taxes) I get your basic point.
But of that list, surely some things are more important to you than others on that list?
For me, being in this industry, not letting religious people tell me how to live my own life is a really important factor to me. Having government keep an eye on power/electric companies and health care insurance companies etc is EXTREMELY important to me, because corporate America just fucks us again and again and again when they're not kept in check. People being able to get medical care and not left to die because they're broke or have a "pre-existing condition" is EXTREMELY important to me.
I am pro second amendment... I feel we should always have the right to own guns.
So while I'm a mix too, there are certain issues that just are more important to me than the others and no matter how much I liked a guy, I couldn't vote AGAINST these core concerns. So because I'm pro second amendment, does that mean I could ever vote for a party who lets religious zealots try to shut down my business and tell me what to do in bed? Never. I couldn't say "fuck you you're on your own" to gay people because I'm not gay and want to own an AK-47. I couldn't support a party that will actively try to let huge corporations treat me like an indentured servant. Not a fucking chance.
Picking a side doesn't mean you're not your "own man" or that you walk lock step with everything on the agenda of that party ... it just means some issues are more important than others.