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While I am often not very happy witht he GOP leaning SCOTUS on this one I really am glad to have a right-leaning supreme court.
Lets hope they do the right thing and knock down these and similar state-laws as unconstitutional and in violation of the #2A
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@freemo wait I thought Republicans supported states rights?
@louisrcouture Not really, you are thinking of Libertarians. Republicans are, in theory, about small government. It is debatable how good they are at getting there, better than the dems, but that isnt hard to do.
Haha yes. In theory.
I'm in the #GOP but for the life of me can't find many prominent politicians who are about small government. #Trump and #RonDesantis sure as heck ain't it.
Yea sadly the parties have been somewhat divorced of their ideals on both sides for a while now.
Yep. The #GOP at this point is the party of moderates, and a handful of loudmouthed far righters who rarely have enough power to change anything.
I dont see them as moderates... I see the GOP as 90%+ plain old right and <10% extreme right.
The left I see as maybe 70% plain old left and 30% extreme left.
The only place moderates exist are outside of the two major parties as either no-party or a 3rd-party.
Maybe I view them as moderates because a lot of them just don’t do much of anything at all 🤪
When it comes to moderates, wouldn’t you consider someone like #JoeManchin a moderate?
Through the lens of the american political system he is probably as close as you can get to center while being in one of the two major parties.. But do I consider him truely moderate/center... not really.. but it also depends on what is a modeate... Is a moderate someone with opinions on both sides of the aisle? Or is it someone where the majority of their opinion arent from **either** side of the aisle?
@freemo @realcaseyrollins my take is that the true center is social democracy, which would make me a centrist. It is a mix of social intervention and free market, so balance = centrist. That would make Bernie Sanders as a true centrist. And since moderate is also a synonym of centrist, there would be no real moderate to the right of Bernie. However this is only focusing on the economic side of things and not the social issues.
There is only one way to have a truely moderate/center society... Me alone on an island :)
Yes we would be a dictatorship ruling with the iron oppressive fist of moderacy.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins that would be a dictatorship of the proletariat, an absolute monarchy, anarcho capitalism, absolute democracy, so definitely a mix of a lot of ideologies.