I think part of that is because the Republican brand has been tarnished among non-Republicans over the years of them getting more and more extreme. I mean, you see that in California, where Republicans used to be very competitive and over time, their extreme stance on social issues has made them a pariah party. Now, sure, even a moderate Republican stands no chance...but that's because they carry the scarlet 'R'. I don't know Oregon politics, but I wouldn't be surprised if a similar dynamic has played out.
But it's to such an absurd extreme now. We re-elected Kitzhaber WHILE he was under investigation and had to immediately step down after taking office. I legitimately think a Democrat would win in Oregon even if he murdered someone because people would say "well he's still the lesser of two evils."
Trump says he will refuse to endorse Republicans who vote for 'disgraceful' $1.2 billion infrastructure bill and lashes out at 'RINO' Mitch McConnell for voting with Democrats to push it forward Senate voted 67-27 on Saturday to advance the infrastructure bill, which is backed by Biden 18 Republicans, including Mitch McConell, voted in favor of moving it forward in the Senate Donald Trump released a statement shortly afterward slamming the bill, trashing McConnell He also threatened to withdraw support for the other 17 Republicans who voted in favor of advancing the bill for further negotiations https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ture-bill-backed-Biden-passes-key-hurdle.html
Bingo! I have no problem voting for Republicans I believe to be genuinely moderate and I voted for Knute Buehler in the last governor’s race. After he lost, he came out as a “Trump Republican” because that is the only hope he has of winning in the future. Same with Kim Thatcher for Secretary of State. I voted for her, she lost and then pulled a Knute. Fool me twice and I’ll vote for my dog over a Republican………
Knute had some tell-tale signs of Trumpy-ness. There was his support for the Wildlife Refuge takeover, and anti-vaxxing before anti-vaxxing was 'cool'. barfo
and that Republican governor wouldn't even be a Republican in todays political game. He'd be a liberal democrat. Almost everything he stood for, is what progressives/democrats stand for. Public access (the socialist!) to the beach, the bottle bill/environmental activism (fake news!), urban growth boundaries (anti-capitalism!) and a state sponsored "rock festival" with loose laws regarding drug use (etc), proposed removing highways for public spaces. the only (modern day) republicanism he had was keeping people out of the state of Oregon.
Well, not necessarily. The Republican Party has swung so far right, that what used to be a moderate Republican (like McCall, Hatfield) is now considered a liberal Democrat.
Imagine being so ashamed of your history that you make it illegal to teach it to your children... White supremacy at it's finest...
Republicans are literally the Fascist party now. They stormed the capital for the exact opposite reason...
Remember secular humanism? During the 90s we heard how teaching secular humanism would do terrible things to our children. It was conflated with atheism, wrongly; not all atheists are secular humanists and not all secular humanists are atheists, and more accurately with culture wars as secular humanists support civil rights, keeping religion out of public schools, teaching science, etc. All this screaming by Republicans and on right wing media about how secular humanism was destroying America. We never hear about secular humanism any more. Remember Sharia law? In the early 2000s local governments held hysterical hearings and passed resolutions banning imposition of Sharia law. No one was proposing instituting Sharia law in the US and the Constitution would clearly prohibit it. We don't hear much about imposing Sharia law. Remember the Ground Zero mosque? Every time the Bush Administration got really bad publicity, and just before any election, Muslims were building a mosque at Ground Zero to use as terrorist recruiting facility. No Ground Zero mosque ever materialized. We don't hear much about that either. Now we have white people hysterically protesting teaching critical race theory and state after state banning critical race theory, which has become ANY teaching about racial issues. Slavery, the so called 3/5 Compromise, Jim Crow segregation, lynching, extermination of Native Americans, internment of Japanese Americans, anything racial related is now "critical race theory" and must be banned so white people won't be uncomfortable. Mike Pompeo actually said Afghanistan fell to Taliban because Biden was paying too much attention to critical race theory which so far as I know he never mentioned. Anyone see a pattern? Keep (white) people really scared of atheists and scary brown people so they vote Repubican?
Anyone who listens to, agrees with, and supports this self hating BITCH is snuggling right up next to racist, white supremacist ideologies. Ask yourself why no black people like this bitch. Because she's a fucking shill for white supremacy. If she's your hero, that says A LOT about you...
