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    1 year ago

    The big problem is that while many Republican voters might be more moderate, Republican politicians absolutely aren’t, and the Republican voters keep voting in the extremists. It doesn’t matter if 32% of Republican voters support LGBTQ+ protections when the Republican politicians they’re voting in are busy passing anti-LGBTQ+ laws, and they’d never willingly vote for anyone else.

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        Democrats are the moderate party right now. It’s actually very frustrating for progressive voters because they keep voting in Democrats that talk a big game while campaigning and then the moment they’re in office that all goes out the window and they go back to supporting the same moderate policies they always have.

        That’s the real difference between the Republicans and Democrats, the Republicans talk about moderate policies but then actually enact extremist policies, while the Democrats talk about extremist policies but then actually enact moderate ones.