The Reasonable Side

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I’m kind of tired of being told how naïve and dangerous a moderate left ideology is compared to extreme right ideology.  If I vote anything other than Trump Republican, I’m often accused by holier than thou conservatives that I’m voting for crime and weakness.  There is this idea on the right that if I’m not for an expensive border wall and the elimination of birthright citizenship and asylum seeking, that I’m totally in favor of being invaded by another country.  That’s not to say that the left doesn’t have their own problem with imposing straw man arguments on Republicans.  No side is without their own respective bogeymen, but it’s the Republican Bogeymen that actually seem to be the ones running things on their side.  I just feel like I’m not necessarily the one that needs to take a step back and actually listening to what the people I’m voting for are actually saying.  Take Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT).  He supports dismantling federal programs for education and interstate highways, and things unless those are removed, the Left will start a Civil War.  This isn’t me reading into vague comments or twisting context.  He actually said those things at a Lawyer’s convention.  You can watch the speech.  And yet I’m the one who’s unreasonable because I want background checks on guns and thinks we should help desperate people from other countries?

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