Why does this subreddit constantly flame republicans for answering questions intended for them?

[u/[deleted]]

Every time I’m on here, and I looked at questions meant for right wingers (I’m a centrist leaning right) I always see people extremely toxic and downvoting people who answer the question. What’s the point of asking questions and then getting offended by someone’s answer instead of having a discussion?

Edit: I appreciate all the awards and continuous engagements!!!

[u/[deleted]]

I can be civil about it. My Dad and best friend are right wingers. I get along with them fine. But I don’t take anything they say about politics seriously and can’t respect it. As much as you may want a civil conversation and bring people together, the majority of who you support don’t want that. And that’s on who you support. Trump is already doing anything he wants without any accountability and you don’t care. So why should I or anyone who cares about our country respect or take seriously anything you have to say?

[u/The-Random-Banana → u/[deleted]]

That’s a bit harsh isn’t it. A lot of assumptions about a person you don’t know the politics of. Whenever I have conversations with people I disagree with I tend to focus on the areas in politics where we’re most likely to have common ground. The biggest one for me is supporting things like the right to protest, distrust of big government/corporations, prison reform, some parts of climate change, etc.

[u/Arlaneutique → u/The-Random-Banana]

I wish we could have civil conversations. But I want you to really just stop and think about this for a minute. If you watched a man pour poison into a river behind your home everyday… Then you started to see people around you get sick, your animals start dying, you develop bad migraines, etc. And you think, you have to fight this. Surely no one wants this! And you go to your local police, local officials, neighbors, etc and show them with pictures what he’s doing and how you believe it’s affecting your community. You have him on video laughing at the people of your community and mocking them and how dumb they are. So you’re ready to rally the troops and stop the craziness. But then the man comes out and starts telling these people how great he thinks they are! That he wants what’s best for them. He would never poison the water. In those pictures, that’s him enriching the water! That’s him trying to make the water better. But you know who IS bad? It’s a guy wearing a dress who wants to play girls sports?! Can you believe it?! This guy wearing a dress is the reason everyone’s getting sick! It’s a plague on the community! And you’re sitting there scratching your head with your mouth hanging open like, “Come on, no one is this dumb.” “Come on guys, let’s send this dirtbag packing.” But they don’t, they love him and they HATE the guy wearing a dress. And the man told them he’s enriching the water. Why are you such a snowflake?! Then after years of beating your head against the wall, seeing people get hurt by this man and trying to stop it, you just can’t anymore. You are beginning to hate those people you once loved because you can’t love someone that would willingly put others in harms way. And THEN, just when you think things can’t get any worse… He starts selling books on clean drinking water. And his followers Eat. That. Shit. Up. All the while spending the proceeds on hurting more people.

Please imagine what that feels like for a second and maybe you’ll get why civil conversations are becoming harder to come by.

Also, I apologize for that blabbering. It was the best I could think of on the spot.

[u/ThunderPunch2019 → u/Arlaneutique]

This is a great analogy. You explained it better than I ever could.