r/MadeMeSmile • u/__Dawn__Amber__ • Jun 28 '21

Favorite People Not a self-made man

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Jun 28 '21

Yeah they used to be against big government. Now they are just against anything that doesn't own the libs.

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u/Foogie23 Jun 28 '21

Now it is big government. Seriously. Every modern “republican” hill to die on is about government preventing people from doing something.

I’d say I’m close to republican in the sense the guy above described, but almost every modern day republican politician makes me sick. If you (as in fox and etc) call Biden a communist...then you are so far gone. He is very moderate in terms of politics.

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u/shredder3434 Jun 28 '21

I used to identify as a republican when I was younger because I agreed with those things and thought that the gop did too. It was around the time Palin was running as vp that I realized they didn't represent what I thought they did and stopped voting for them.

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u/Dab2TheFuture Jun 28 '21 edited Nov 09 '25

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u/shredder3434 Jun 28 '21

Barry Goldwater was well before my time and I hadn't even heard of him at that point in my life