# Republicans today are a danger to the US and the world **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 18, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848 "2018-08-18T21:42:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/41 "2018-08-19T23:52:54Z")
Yeah, it’s not the whole Republican party that’s rotten. It’s only the worst 98% who are giving all the rest a bad name. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/42 "2018-08-19T23:59:21Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > So it’s okay to damn the entire Republican party as “a danger to the US and the world” and “completely morally bankrupt,” but you draw the line at Trump painting the media with a broad brush? Got it. You understand we live in the real world, right? The Republican party is actually running the country. We can see exactly what it’s about, what it supports, and what it does. Anyone who can see what is going on day after day and still express any degree of support for the party, especially with votes, is directly responsible for what’s going on. So, there’s no “broad brush” here. It’s calling to account people who are actually participating in and enabling and empowering this shameful mess. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/43 "2018-08-20T00:11:12Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Anyone who can see what is going on day after day and still express any degree of support for the party, especially with votes, is directly responsible for what’s going on. Yeah, it’s terrible that these people have taken unemployment to the lowest level in years and pushed the dollar up too. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/44 "2018-08-20T00:16:45Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > Yeah, it’s terrible that these people have taken unemployment to the lowest level in years and pushed the dollar up too. Thanks Obama! Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/45 "2018-08-20T00:17:46Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > Yeah, it’s terrible that these people have taken unemployment to the lowest level in years and pushed the dollar up too. Mussolini made the trains run on time? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/46 "2018-08-20T00:24:10Z")
You’re a light touch. I wouldn’t support white supremacists no matter how much richer they made billionaires. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/47 "2018-08-20T00:28:07Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > You’re a light touch. I wouldn’t support white supremacists no matter how much richer they made billionaires. Precisely. Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/48 "2018-08-20T00:48:48Z")
I honestly feel for you guys here. My life was really no different under GWB, Obama or Trump. It’s crazy how polarized the US has become in the 12 years I was gone. I even voted for Obama in 2008 (and Libertarian in 2004, 2012 and 2016). That the government affects your lives so much says more about you than about the government. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/49 "2018-08-20T00:50:34Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > I honestly feel for you guys here. My life was really no different under GWB, Obama or Trump. It’s crazy how polarized the US has become in the 12 years I was gone. > > I even voted for Obama in 2008 (and Libertarian in 2004, 2012 and 2016). > > That the government affects your lives so much says more about you than about the government. How very privileged of you. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/50 "2018-08-20T00:52:42Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > I honestly feel for you guys here. My life was really no different under GWB, Obama or Trump. It’s crazy how polarized the US has become in the 12 years I was gone. > > I even voted for Obama in 2008 (and Libertarian in 2004, 2012 and 2016). > > That the government affects your lives so much says more about you than about the government. Some of us care about what happens to other people. Not you, though. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/51 "2018-08-20T01:06:22Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > How very privileged of you. No. It’s just making a decision that you are going to be independent, create your own job, not rely on other people and isolate yourself from chaos. Being self-reliant is how this country was built. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/52 "2018-08-20T01:06:56Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > How very privileged of you. > [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Some of us care about what happens to other people. Not you, though. Don’t take the bait. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/53 "2018-08-20T01:08:17Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > I honestly feel for you guys here. My life was really no different under GWB, Obama or Trump. It’s crazy how polarized the US has become in the 12 years I was gone. > > I even voted for Obama in 2008 (and Libertarian in 2004, 2012 and 2016). > > That the government affects your lives so much says more about you than about the government. Weren’t you the one just praising the Trump administration for lowering unemployment and raising the dollar? Yup, I was right, see if you scroll up just little tiny bit you can see what you posted. It is almost like you were saying the government can have an effect on things. I guess that didn’t last long. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/54 "2018-08-20T01:09:06Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > This thread is nonsensical. Spoken like a true Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/55 "2018-08-20T01:10:37Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > Weren’t you the one just praising the Trump administration for lowering unemployment and raising the dollar? Yup, I was right, see if you scroll up just little tiny bit you can see what you posted. > > It is almost like you were saying the government can have an effect on things. > > I guess that didn’t last long. Yes, I think the Trump administration is doing a good job, but it hasn’t affected me personally. My job is still the same one I have had for more than 15 years, working for myself. My income has not gone up or down since Trump was elected. Obviously the government affects a lot of people, but it shouldn’t be that way. I think the government should be vastly smaller and not affect so many people. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/56 "2018-08-20T01:33:55Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > No. It’s just making a decision that you are going to be independent, create your own job, not rely on other people and isolate yourself from chaos. Being self-reliant is how this country was built. Not at all. I ask you read about the history of economic development in the US, especially regarding canals, railroads, slavery, the oil industry, Eli Whitney’s career, the telegraph, transportation networks, computers, flight, housing development, and, oh hell, I could go on… radio, television, electronics, plastics, meat packing, space flight, whaling, electrification, I mean, really, I should just stop. The idea that America was built by “self-made men” without the use, funding, or purchasing power of the government is purely a myth, a myth with as much basis in fact as the tales of Poseidon. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/57 "2018-08-20T01:38:24Z")
The reason the Republican party is okay with Trump is that he has enabled a large part of their agenda. Give the wealthy more money, check. Get rid of environmental protections, check. Get rid of regulations, check. Get rid of Obama’s rules to reign in fake universities, check. Put ideological conservatives on the supreme court, check. If you’re a Republican, what’s not to like about Trump? (Trade wars, I suppose.) ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/58 "2018-08-20T01:47:20Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > flight Ok. I’ll bite. The entire financing of the Wright’s experiments, from equipment to travel to their testing site at Kitty Hawk, came from their bicycle company. The cost of building the 3 flying machines, two of which were unpowered gliders and the last one with a diesel engine cost $1,000 over the course of 4 years of experimentation (1899-1903). This was in stark contrast to the two machines built by Samuel Langley of the Smithsonian which together cost $70,000 at that time. His project was funded by the Federal Government and Alexander Graham Bell and failed miserably. The Wrights were geniuses. I have a picture of them in my wallet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/59 "2018-08-20T01:54:09Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Get rid of Obama’s rules to reign in fake universities Isn’t it Trump who wanted to reign in fake universities? Obama wanted to rein them in. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848/60 "2018-08-20T01:57:53Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > No. It’s just making a decision that you are going to be independent, create your own job, not rely on other people and isolate yourself from chaos. Being self-reliant is how this country was built. Oh, you’re one of those people. Well, alrighty then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-today-are-a-danger-to-the-us-and-the-world/819848.md?page=4)