Every election cycle seems to reinforce the absurdity of American politics. Today, I would like to highlight some issues with the "right," but if you're left-leaning liberal, don't gloat too much. I aired a few complaints about your "side" already.
Pro-property
...unless that property is something your puritanical dictates have declared illegal. You see it when the Democrats want to ban guns, but you do not see it yourself when you do the same for property you oppose.
Pro-security
...but so focused on law and order that you support arbitrary and unjust laws against non-crimes. Have you forgotten that rights are not defined by governments and geography? And you wage unjust wars based on nothing but blind nationalism, sending gullible youngsters to kill and die while calling their blind obedience, "virtue."
Pro-market
...unless it interferes with corporate profits. Or involves trade with foreigners. Or involves something your laws have declared illegal. And then you cheer the police who enforce injustice, and condemn the victims of the collateral damage they inflict.
Pro-gun
...except when it's, y'know, hard. And you need to have principles. But no, you knuckle under whenever the left spews their fear and lies while simultaneously parading yourselves as defenders of gun rights.
Pathetic.
And then you say you support traditional values, but you back Donald Trump the womanizing self-aggrandizing temperamental functionally-illiterate loose cannon.
What the hell happened to the "party of principle?"
"Party of principle?" Where did you get that from?! Seriously, everything else was spot-on, but I was always under the impression that the Republicans were the "party of loyalty," and that they are more loyal to people than to principles (hence the cult of personality round Reagan and Bush Jr, as well as Trump).
They used to loudly make that kind of claim. Maybe around the time they lost to Obama?
That sounds about right. I wasn't old enough to vote in the 2008 election, and back then, I wasn't paying attention to the Republicans - I was too busy cracking jokes about the Democrats. "If Hillary and Obama jumped off a cliff, which one would hit the ground first? Hillary - because Obama would have to stop and ask for directions."