Comments by "A.J. Hart" (@cobbler88) on "Andrew Doyle: Woke Politics Are Alienating Liberal Voters" video.

Joe's solution: Republicans should just take up Democrat positions on all the high-profile issues. I'm not sure that's really a solution.
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@malorie8557 Back in the day when Dems were liberals rather than "the Left," we could argue that both sides wanted the same ends but disagreed about the means. I don't think we can still say that anymore.
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@apokatastasian2831 Things do tend to drift toward what previous generations believed was the Left, but that doesn't mean there aren't genuinely conservative positions existing in that matrix. It also ignores the fact that where a position lies on the Left-Right spectrum is not static. Some of those positions considered to be extremely conservative 75 years ago aren't actually viewed as Leftist by today's standards. I mean, how often has the concept of free speech hopped back and forth throughout history? It may appear that the slouch toward the Left has become a race, but I think we're seeing symptoms instead of disease at this point. They leapt off the edge too fast without slowly building toward their aims. That left a HUGE gap between what they claim to want and where Americans actually are on many of those issues. It's why AOC, Bernie, Warren, etc., come off as complete nutjobs. And it's at least just as likely that the country as a whole will recoil from those positions as it is that we will get on board the next train going off the cliff.
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@JNYC-gb1pp Exactly. It's like with terrorism. How do you meet a group who wants your kind extinguished from the planet "half way"? Do you allow them to kill a few million a year? Heck, if you're going to allow that a few million people being killed every year is necessary for a solution, it seems to make more sense to do that to the side that's causing the problem.
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@Bogdanmeoff What do you mean "WERE"? :)
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@diobrando5896 Romney doomed any future aspirations to become POTUS with that vote to convict, thats for sure.
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@JNYC-gb1pp You seem to feel very much put upon. It might not hurt to find someone NOT like-minded with whom to discuss these things.
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@JNYC-gb1pp I merely read what you put out there. It's not so much a disagreement on some foundational terms. More of a level of degree of retaliation is all. No big. But I still think the worst thing would be to be among like-minded folks in that regard. :) Take care.
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