The GeeOpie / Military Industrial Uniparty is none of the above.

"Just Relax - It won't be Trump"

It's not the same thing as being a "Baptist", an affiliation that brings with it mandatory beliefs.

There are no mandatory beliefs to be a Republican, or Democrat. All that is required is the will to go declare one's self one thing or the other to the local election board and, voila, you are a Republican, or a Democrat.

People with an ideological hobbyhorse will tell you that it means a great deal more. They try to make it so. But it doesn't.

What Does It Mean to Be a Republican?

Depends on who you ask:

If you ask the average public school educated millennial, the answer is "it means you're a bigoted, homo-phobic (fear of one?) rich hater who wants to starve children, kill minorities and start WWIII."

You'll get pretty much the same answer from any brain-dead Xlinton supporter.

But if you ask an actual elected republican - say, a Mitch McConnell, you'll get a different answer (that is, unless he's running for re-election and therefore lying):

"A republican is someone who will give the emperor everything he wants, because to do otherwise would cause the media to say bad things about us. They might even call us racist."

So how do I answer? What does it mean to be a republican?

It means you're pretty much satisfied to take whatever crumbs come your way for playing the part of an actual opposition party. You get to appear on "Meet The Press" and you might even get a nice, corner office."

As long as you don't rock the boat and go along with the Kabuki Theater that is the American Uni-party system, all will be cool"

Trump - on the other hand - is NOT a republican. Not in that sense, anyway.

And love him or hate him, that is why he is where he is at this time.

The GOP are traitors to the nation just as the Democrats…

He is always going “yadada” trying to say libertarianism is great.

If libertarianism is such a good idea, then why hasn’t at least one country tired it? Wouldn’t there be at least one country, out of nearly two hundred, with minimal government, free trade, open borders, decriminalized drugs, no welfare state and no public education system … at least one?

Stop trying to show things are bad when you cannot even prove what you are trying to promote is good.

What Does It Mean to Be a Republican

Well, I'm an independent... but the first thing that comes to mind answering this is....

Then you aren't a Paultard and Demotard.

Republicans and Democrats are the source of all evil

The traitors have broken the back of the middle class while creating lower classes by forcing millions of Americans into poverty while ensuring a super wealthy class (about 1%) possess 75% of the wealth.

Neither of the major political parties address the twenty trillion dollars of federal debt they have amassed by creating an unnecessary HUGE federal buracracy and rampant wars around the world.

Well, I'm an independent.

All you mean to say is that you vote for either a Republican or a Democrat. You are no more of an independent than Bernie Sanders (and he was a registered independent).

The traitors have broken the back of the middle class while creating lower classes by forcing millions of Americans into poverty while ensuring a super wealthy class (about 1%) possess 75% of the wealth.

Neither of the major political parties address the twenty trillion dollars of federal debt they have amassed by creating an unnecessary HUGE federal buracracy and rampant wars around the world.

What we have here is another annoying promoter of libertarianism who tries to tell us that Republicans and Democrats are the source of all evil and yet he cannot point to a single country in the world that is organized along libertarian lines where libertarianism works.

Republicans and Democrats are the source of all evil

Forcing a massive military armada to fight fabricated wars around the world breaking the backs of US taxpayers while allowing an illegal alien invasion this nation has never seen before is what the Republican/Democrat single political [party] has done to America.

All I mean to say is that I refused to be labeled with a party

But you vote for either of the two major political parties the first chance you get? C'mon, that doesn't add up.

But you vote for either of the two major political parties the first chance you get? C'mon, that doesn't add up.

I don't vote to elect the perfect candidate... I vote to keep the worst one out, asshole... and you're to ef'n stupid to add that up.

lol

I don't vote to elect the perfect candidate... I vote to keep the worst one out, asshole

You are the reason why the US government is all fuckedupped. You might as well vote for a goddmned communist.

Well, I'm an independent...

So was yukon.

And then ye wuz hacked!

You are the reason why the US government is all fuckedupped. You might as well vote for a goddmned communist.

You are the reason why we have a mother ef'n communist for the last 8 years, douchebag. But this election, it won't matter. Your 6% cult can't split the vote up enough to screw a person as popular as TRUMP.

We ain't equal, Buckyboy. Some people are worth more than others... and in your case, almost everyone is smarter than you.

So was yukon.

lmao, Yukon kicked your ass so bad you still shit your panties over him.

You are the reason why we have a mother ef'n communist for the last 8 years,

That RESPONSIBILITY that you assigned to me is a function of the GOP/DEM political party and the laffable, so-called 'Independents.' LQQK @yerself, as an example, a government worker sucking the teat of excessive benefits and receiving a pension for doing nothing worthy of achievement.

“Every time I hear him (Trump) speaking, I never hear ‘Constitution,’ I never hear ‘liberty,’ I never hear ‘freedom.’

Me neither.

lmao

He's a small fish in a small pond.

article: “Every time I hear him (Trump) speaking, I never hear ‘Constitution,’ I never hear ‘liberty,’ I never hear ‘freedom.’

ConservingFreedom: "Me neither."

Don't you think that anomaly is strange?

receiving a pension for doing nothing worthy of achievement.

You mean like paying into it for 20 years?

You have the IQ of a chalkboard.

lol

Don't you think that anomaly is strange?

An obvious explanation occurs to me ...

The GOP are traitors to the nation just as the Democrats; so, what does it mean to be a Republican?

Republican politicians are in essence no different than Democrats - they aren't concerned with what the voters want. They are there to serve the elite and make as much money as they can while in office as they advance the NWO agenda.

But you keep at it with your “how dare you disagree with me and not see what I see and therefore you area a selfish, indolent, stupid piece of shit!” And “you must be a paid government troll and obviously don’t love liberty like I do!” Yep, that a good way to convince those who may disagree with you that your path is correct.

You mean like paying into it for 20 years?

You received a government check for doing not much for twenty years. Often, I equate your job as another form of welfare as we have to ensure little cretins are housed/provided some clothing and maybe some sort of dignity like a STOP SIGN as a purpose in life; nevertheless, your income was a government subsidy.

You may have used taxpayers money to fund a minor retiree stipend but the money came from hardworking taxpayers in the private sector.

lol

It is all too true that government can stray in the wrong direction.

NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY (1971)

We keep electing new Presidents who seemingly promise faithfully to halt the world-wide Communist advance, put the blocks to extravagant government spending, douse the tea of inflation, put the economy on an even keel, reverse the trend which is turning the country mto a moral sewer, and toss the criminals into the hoosegow where they belong.

Yet despite high hopes and glittering campaign promise these problems continue to worsen no matter who is in office. Each new administration, whether it be Republican or Democrat continues the same basic policies of the previous administration which it had so thoroughly denounced during the election campaign.

It is considered poor form to mention this, but it is true nonetheless. Is there a plausible reason to explain why this happens? We are not supposed to think so. We are supposed to think it is all accidental and coincidental and that therefore there is nothing we can do about it.

FDR once said "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." He was in a good position to know. We believe that many of the major world events that are shaping our destinies occur because somebody or somebodies have planned them that way.

If we were merely dealing with the law of avenges, half of the events affecting our nation's well-being should be good for America. If we were dealing with mere incompetence, our leaders should occasionally make a mistake in our favor.

When you think about it, there are really only two theories of history. Either things happen by accident neither planned nor caused by anybody, or they happen because they are planned and somebody causes them to happen. In reality, it is the accidental theory of history preached in the unhallowed Halls of Ivy which should be ridiculed.

Otherwise, why does every recent administration make the same mistakes as the previous ones? Why do they repeat the errors of the past which produce inflation, depressions and war? Why does our State Department "stumble" from one Communist-aiding "blunder" to another?

If you believe it is all an accident or the result of mysterious and unexplainable tides of history, you will be regarded as an "intellectual" who understands that we live in a complex world. If you believe that something like 32,496 consecutive coincidences over the past forty years stretches the law of averages a bit, you are a kook

We aren't equal ...

Thats a fact. I worked in the private sector (other than a 4 year stint in USACEEIA) to change the world around me. You, on the other hand, walked around with a STOP SIGN for traffic at an elementary school for twenty years.

But, I am not near retirement as you, a quiter have performed. I am still making money and socking the stuff in the bank.

I am still making money and socking the stuff in the bank.

So am I retard. What's better than investing in one pension? Investing in TWO.

If I could live until 125... I'd have worked 3 twenty year pension jobs. You don't have the work ethic to complete one. Loser. You are like all those Ferguson urban angry animals. Pissed that other have something you aren't willing to work for.

Well, I have to give creit: wearing a green or orange chest cover really made you one colourful socialist, didn't it?

facsism?

IMO, the following fails to fit Trump in many respects: "Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete, and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. Such a state is led by a strong leader — such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party — to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society. Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature, and views political violence, war, and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation."

If Trump doesn't talk about ‘Constitution’ nor ‘liberty’ nor ‘freedom’ it's because he sees those matters as unrelated to his primary concerns - which is because he's not an American conservative.

"Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete, and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. Such a state is led by a strong leader — such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party — to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society. Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature, and views political violence, war, and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation."

Facsists are interested in control, free from any restraints; they thrive on POWER. What makes you so sure that Trump is not a facist when he doesn't argue lower taxes, lower debt, smaller government and the elimination of being a world cop?

What Does It Mean to Be a Republican?

It often means a person was a gemogogic psychopathic asshole looking for a career in politics and there happened to be an opening in the repubican party. There is no quality control in either party and not enough people of caliber in either party to even form a panel of review to initiate such.

Fascists believe the federal government have the POWER to regulate small, private business and create unnecesary regulations.

Does any source other than the bucktionary confirm this definition?