Comment on Manchin not endorsing Harris after she backed ending filibuster to codify abortion rights
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 month agoI remember when we had conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans. The country ran a hell of a lot better back then.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We still do, with “we” being people, and we’re all left out in the cold, since there aren’t any representatives with anything other than hard-line party positions.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’m socially more left but fiscally right. I’ve always had that stance and there were plenty of other republicans like me. Just like there were many democrats who were socially right but fiscally left. It made voting for either party an option based on what issues were important to you.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think I’m left until I hang around with real leftists, then I realize I am not left. Republicans call me a liberal, and real liberals call me a libertarian. I’m neither of those things I guess, but a little bit of each of them.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Me right friends think I’m too liberal. My left friends think I’m to right.
I’m actually pretty damn moderate. The issue isn’t me, it’s people have become extreme and I haven’t.
The only things I go far right are economic issues and national defense. I am very much a small government Republican.