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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

. . . and Hilary's platform is textbook GOP.

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two largely identical parties

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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two largely identical parties

That's a popular meme, I know. But have you considered . . .
-- Abortion rights
-- Supreme Court nominations
-- Climate change
-- LGBT issues
-- Environmental concerns
-- Affordable Care Act
-- Maintaining vs. privatizing Social Security
-- Workers' Union rights
-- Evolution vs. creationism

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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two largely identical parties

That's a popular meme, I know. But have you considered . . .
-- Abortion rights
-- Supreme Court nominations
-- Climate change
-- LGBT issues
-- Environmental concerns
-- Affordable Care Act
-- Maintaining vs. privatizing Social Security
-- Workers' Union rights
-- Evolution vs. creationism

Fixed it for you.

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul
Given the choice between Clinton and Trump, they choose to actively campaign for Clinton.
They feel that Trump is dangerous, unpredictable, is no more a representative of the values of the Republican party than Clinton, and that the party will continue to fracture under Trump's leadership.
some Republicans have begrudgingly agreed to support him while others are simply opting out of the election. But for these women who founded the group, (and one man who has joined in solidarity), Trump's bombastic style, offensive rhetoric toward women and minorities, slapdash policy "suggestions" risk destroying the party.
They say that choosing to campaign for Clinton is contrary to everything they have worked for in their professional lives, but that she is at least a reasonable person that the party could work with as President, and that the cons of voting for Clinton are far outweighed by the cons of voting for Trump.
As for policy, there are only a few areas where the group's leaders said they could agree with Clinton, which mostly involves foreign policy and trade. More importantly, however, they see her as a reasonable person—especially compared with the unpredictable Trump—and someone Republicans could possibly work with.
"We can put our differences aside to have a safer option that's better for the country as a whole," Milloy said. "The fear of Donald Trump is, to me, more than the fear of Hillary raising capital standards on banks."
Basically, they are voting against Trump rather than for Clinton, in a time when many are tired of voting "against" someone rather than "for". But their rational for doing so is based on an effort to protect what they believe in.
"Our group isn't about selling Clinton. It's about using your vote to keep Trump out of office," Lim said. "We're not going to be in the business of convincing people that Hillary Clinton will be the savior of all of our policy issues. We're trying to convince people that your vote has a political and moral purpose, and it's important to use that."
"This was a long road for me to get here," she added.
I'm impressed.
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/02/politics/republican-women-organize-to-support-clinton/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fedition_us+%28RSS%3A+CNNi+-+U.S.%29

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice
Historically, have workers had a more effective tool than unions in battling for their rights?

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
not quite. IF you add the minimum wage, snot just unions wanting that. Wanting a living wage are mostly workers who are living beneath a living wage. Of course, unions ARE another difference between the two parties
PS thanks DC:) sad list on the divide.

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• Personal Responsibility
  
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• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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Historically? No. But, we aren't talking about the horrible working conditions that Unions fought to get out of. Most of the stuff Unions fought to get for the American worker has now been codified and watched over by OSHA.

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The only reason the Unions want a higher minimum wage, is so they have more leverage to fight for even higher Union wages. That's it.

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

. . . and Hilary's platform is textbook GOP.

So was the current "Democrat" President's

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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The only reason the Unions want a higher minimum wage, is so they have more leverage to fight for even higher Union wages. That's it.

Businesses seek to get the highest possible profits for their goods and services. Is it wrong for workers to do likewise?

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul

Given the choice between Clinton and Trump, they choose to actively campaign for Clinton.

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ORIGINAL: ifmaz

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul

Given the choice between Clinton and Trump, they choose to actively campaign for Clinton.

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If only there was some other party to vote for so people wouldn't have to decide between the lesser of two evils.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
not quite. IF you add the minimum wage, snot just unions wanting that. Wanting a living wage are mostly workers who are living beneath a living wage. Of course, unions ARE another difference between the two parties
PS thanks DC:) sad list on the divide.