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    Any one-issue voters out there?

    I used to think they were idiots. But now I am one. And I think more people probably are than they think.

    I think that a lot of people are naturally passionate about one issue, and then get into their media silo and echo chamber in our neatly divided society and absorb the other views of their chosen team. There's no other way to explain the hypocracy.

    Is there any one issue that if the parties were to flip-flop on it, you would flip with them?

    Mine is the environment and stopping global warming. If Republicans came out and decided to give a shirt about the environment I would vote for them. But they aren't even pretending to care .

    I think the most common one issue is abortion. I know many compassionate bleeding heart Christians (generally of the old school Catholic variety) that ideologically would 100% embrace the rest of the Democratic platform if the two parties flip flopped on abortion, though many may not realize it after taking in the other right wing media BS for so long.
     
    Prior to the 2020 election, I had a pretty in-depth discussion with a pastor who was planning to vote for Trump. At first, he claimed he wasn't a one-issue voter, but as we kept going through Trump's record, and he kept being unable to support any of it, he finally admitted (to himself as much as me) that he was a one-issue voter on abortion.

    Being a one-issue voter in any capacity is a voter's dereliction of due diligence, in my opinion.
     
    Any one-issue voters out there?

    I used to think they were idiots. But now I am one. And I think more people probably are than they think.

    I think that a lot of people are naturally passionate about one issue, and then get into their media silo and echo chamber in our neatly divided society and absorb the other views of their chosen team. There's no other way to explain the hypocracy.

    Is there any one issue that if the parties were to flip-flop on it, you would flip with them?

    Mine is the environment and stopping global warming. If Republicans came out and decided to give a shirt about the environment I would vote for them. But they aren't even pretending to care .

    I think the most common one issue is abortion. I know many compassionate bleeding heart Christians (generally of the old school Catholic variety) that ideologically would 100% embrace the rest of the Democratic platform if the two parties flip flopped on abortion, though many may not realize it after taking in the other right wing media BS for so long.
    My life never changes with a Democrat or a Republican in power (at the state or national level). I wake up in the morning and everything is the same every single day. My life was the same under Obama and Trump and remains unchanged with Biden. The only thing that affects me is TAXES, but I just accept the fatality of paying taxes and move on.

    Global warming is very real and at some time we will significantly reduce the use of fossil fuels. The quest to save the planet is noble. However, sometimes the lefty socialist types use the theme of climate change to hit capitalism very hard and to bring socialism through the back door.
     
    Prior to the 2020 election, I had a pretty in-depth discussion with a pastor who was planning to vote for Trump. At first, he claimed he wasn't a one-issue voter, but as we kept going through Trump's record, and he kept being unable to support any of it, he finally admitted (to himself as much as me) that he was a one-issue voter on abortion.

    Being a one-issue voter in any capacity is a voter's dereliction of due diligence, in my opinion.

    Should've told him to read Numbers 5:20-22
     
    I'm a one-issue voter. I think the wave of anti-civility, anti-science, anti-institution, and anti-democratic (authoritarian) populism in this country is dangerous. I will do whatever I can to oppose it.

    It may have begun with what a truly terrible person Trump is, but it revealed something much deeper about the trajectory of American politics.
     
    To the extent I will not support anyone who supports Trump and his ilk given their quest to undermine elections; I guess you could say I'm now mostly a one-issue voter.

    It is not really a one-issue... there is a number of issues that are implicated when you vote for anyone GOP these days, with very few exceptions, because the GOP has decided to be lock-and-step on every single issue from science denial, to conspiracy theories, climate change, human rights, economics, church state, the rule of law, and so forth.
     
    One could say the Dems won with one issue: TRUMP
    Ol' Uncle Joe is certainly not an inspiring candidate. I'll also add that I would not rule out voting for Liz Cheney if she miraculously gets the 2024 GOP nomination. The odds on that are about 1,000,000,000,000 to 1 but she's clearly posturing herself for that.
     
    Ol' Uncle Joe is certainly not an inspiring candidate. I'll also add that I would not rule out voting for Liz Cheney if she miraculously gets the 2024 GOP nomination. The odds on that are about 1,000,000,000,000 to 1 but she's clearly posturing herself for that.
    I don't know much about her. As for Biden he is one of the boys who like LBJ has found religion by presenting himself as someone that is overtly empathetic to POC. It is all standard old fashion politics, but despite his shortcomings I love the guy. As for the previous round of candidates my favorite was Amy Klobuchar, she had her head on the shoulders and did not pander to the the needy one issue voters. As expected the lack of pandering did her in.

    Other than Romney I see no one on the Republican side that can win in 2024. By the same token I have no idea who will run by the Dems. If they throw in Kamala they lose, so who knows.

    Regarding climate change: The problem is very complex and the climate change is real regardless of what humans do. However, it is likely humans are accelerating the change. BTW, we are on our 3rd type of atmosphere in the planet. One day we will have a different atmosphere and hopefully the change will be gradual so humans can adapt (or become extinct).
     
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    I disagree with Cheney on many issues but that she is willing to stand up to Trump's insanity is enough for me to consider voting for her. It's more of a long-term gambit. If a clearly anti-Trump candidate is able to win the nomination and then win the White House it would go a long way to restoring the GOP to some semblance of rationality and purge the party of those who were willing to subvert democracy to save their own political hides.
     
    They won’t purge, though. The toadies will just change their tune. People like Cotton, Rubio, Cruz, Haley, etc. aren’t going to be forced out of the party. They’ll just pretend none of this happened.
     
    Exhibit A:





    For context, the shadow docket was used about 6-8 times during Bush AND Obama, and 36 times under Trump. Going from memory so numbers may be slightly off. But the point is the brazen lying and hypocrisy. Similar to Rubio tweeting that Joe Biden‘s plan is “Marxist”. You cannot trust these people who show they will say and maybe do anything to retain power.
     
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    Any one-issue voters out there?

    I used to think they were idiots. But now I am one. And I think more people probably are than they think.

    I think that a lot of people are naturally passionate about one issue, and then get into their media silo and echo chamber in our neatly divided society and absorb the other views of their chosen team. There's no other way to explain the hypocracy.

    Is there any one issue that if the parties were to flip-flop on it, you would flip with them?

    Mine is the environment and stopping global warming. If Republicans came out and decided to give a shirt about the environment I would vote for them. But they aren't even pretending to care .

    I think the most common one issue is abortion. I know many compassionate bleeding heart Christians (generally of the old school Catholic variety) that ideologically would 100% embrace the rest of the Democratic platform if the two parties flip flopped on abortion, though many may not realize it after taking in the other right wing media BS for so long.
    The death penalty is also a pretty common core heated, one-issue voter, although maybe not as not as temperamental and potentially nasty as abortion gets. Some have accused or mistaken some left-wingers opposition to it as them being soft on crime, coddling or showing sympathy/empathy to serial killers, child molesters, murderers, or soulless spree-killing sociopaths who show no remorse, sympathy for their murders or crimes, or perhaps being a bit hypocritical. They also label them naive for having too optimistic a view on human nature and usually, liberals do tend to believe or have a more optimistic stance on human nature, from a philosophical standpoint. They believe education, societal reform, and tolerance can alleviate most of society's ills and while there's a lot of truth in that, as a bit of a postmodernist, a good education is only as good and valuable and beneficial is the person willing to listen and wanting to learn from it. Once they've left college with those BAs and MAs degrees, and begin singlehandedly chucking or disregarding those meaningful life lessons or steps because they've found the real world's a lot more difficult and irrational to deal with then what many of them were led to believe in their safely-cocooned college classrooms and study halls.
     
    They won’t purge, though. The toadies will just change their tune. People like Cotton, Rubio, Cruz, Haley, etc. aren’t going to be forced out of the party. They’ll just pretend none of this happened.
    Perhaps. Again... there is only an extremely remote possibility this happens. But I have the feeling if it does, Cheney (and the pre-Trump Republican apparatus) are going to do all they can to ruin those guys.
     
    They won’t purge, though. The toadies will just change their tune.

    speaking of that and Cheney...

    Harriet Hageman, who received Donald Trump's endorsement this month in her bid to unseat Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, wasn't always a fan of the former president.

    The 2022 candidate was in fierce opposition to Trump's presidential campaign in 2016, working with supporters of Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in a failed effort to force a vote on the convention floor between the two candidates and block Trump from the nomination. In addition, Hageman spoke out against Trump, warning that the Republican Party was nominating “somebody who is racist and xenophobic,” according to the New York Times.

    "I know that Liz Cheney is a proven, courageous, constitutional conservative, someone who has the education, the background and experience to fight effectively for Wyoming on a national stage," Hageman said in 2016.


    (fast forward to today)

    In a statement to the New York Times, Hageman said she believed "the lies the Democrats and Liz Cheney’s friends in the media were telling at the time" and realized the allegations against Trump were "untrue." She went on to describe Trump as "the greatest president of my lifetime" and that she is proud to support him now.
     

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