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[–]whistlepig 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The republican party also changed a lot in the last 10 years. Before, they use to be the party known for being against social issues like gay marriage and were trying to involve religion into politics more. That appears to have changed a great deal since Ron Paul started speaking out back in 2008. There are still a lot of neocons in the party but right now they're forced to pay lip service to libertarian ideals since their voters have changed.

I didn't see it at first. But then I had a conversation with a marxist on reddit that insisted I was republican because I was pro free speech. That shocked me. I've spent the entirety of my previous life with the so-called liberal party being considered the free speech party and the conservative party who pushed for tv and movie censorship was considered to be against. But as you say, the times have changed and the lines have been redrawn.

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I had a similar realization to you. In 2020 it's considered "far-right" to support the 2nd amendment (especially a broad interpretation, like I do) and "right-wing" to want to ban abortion in most case. There's a big issue on the right as well: a lot of Republicans think protectionism is "left-wing" or that public banks are "communist."

The problem is both polarization and consolidation. The two parties have adopted increasingly extreme policies, while working together behind the scenes to undermine the American People. It alienates a lot of Populists and Centrists, like myself, and makes us resort to third parties — which is only a bad thing in our broken, two-party system.

A lot of people say the party switch happened in the 60s, but if you look at the state level (which, to self-promote, I made a map to visualize), you see that it actually happened in the 1990s and 2000s.

I remember when I was kid that Arkansas was a deep blue state, and now that I'm an adult it's deep red. We had a Democratic trifecta from 2008-2012, then almost immediately all the Democrats where voted out and it became a Republican trifecta — this was when the DP began doubling down on their identity politics and support of Wall Street.

[–]GConly 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I was republican because I was pro free speech. That shocked me.

Tragically the case.

I remember back in the seventies when the ones wanting to censor TV and school books etc were all pearl clutching old, religious, conservatives.

Now it's a bunch of snotty Marxists, and the Marxists are violent. The worst the old pearl clutchers would do is shout in church.