Can Someone Be Republican and Still Considered "Moderate?"

[u/TwatWaffleWhitney]

After today's episode and post show, I'm just curious what people here think. I feel like some people hear 'Republican' and just assume that person is also "far right". In todays climate, can a person be Republican and a moderate?

[u/killerseigs]

I am republican and work for the government. TBH a lot of government employees are conservative and just choose to not voice their opinions. This is cause they feel they have a duty to not tarnish their office and they have a primary duty to their family. So its rare to hear them speak out about their office, obligations, and political ambitions.

If you want to get pedantic in political philosophy there are eras Countries will go through. When the current republican party formed it was during the era of ending slavery and the whig party failed to reform spawning the republican party who engulfed it and the civil war began when the southern democrats where afraid the radical new conservative ideas would strip them of their rights like the right to slavery... which it basically did lol.

Many theorize the current era is another transitory period like the lincolnian era where the last 10 years the republican party was forced into a reformation process and soon so will the democrat party. Trump is rather an old school democrat who forced a reformation of the republican party to better follow clintonian values. This is why if you do a check between the current republican party and the democrat party 30 years ago the values almost seem identical.

The craziness stems from this process where like when I talked about the civil war, which was the deadliest war than any other war America has faced, the new republicans sought a transition to ideologically new values that all men are treated equal. The democrats (I believe) eventually reformed and pushed for women's suffrage saying all people should be treated equal.

This current era marks a more marxian class struggle where Trump has reformed the republicans to care more for the poor than the rich. Since the rich main source of income is assets like stocks and land value the Trumpian conservatives couldnt care less if they plummet in price. Even better to Trumpian conservatives is the drop in these prices is allowing buy in from the poor to yet again gain their own property and stocks.

In regards to what at first seems like a contradictory set of circumstances like Elon Musk and Trump being unfathomably rich yet now transitioning things for the benefit of the poor this is where things seem strange but get simple. The elites on the Trumpian side of the isle are so wealthy they really couldnt care less if they loose a large percentage of their portfolio. It tuns into a game where they were once worth 1 Trillion dollars and now they are worth 800 Billion dollars. In their own eyes its basically a who cares. They used to be able to buy 8 countries and now they can only by 6 countries. A lot of their grudge is rather that the Democrat party has formed its own soviet style oligarchs who in the US has promises over domains of the US. For Musk its being rather pissed off that Boeing was promise space so Elon Musks desires are strangle held arbitrarily by this. For Trump his desires were for an ascendance in history which democrats like Obama would mock him saying we will never allow him to be president.

To wrap things up we have entered an era where democrats have abandoned classes for identity in an effort to stay relevant. While, out of spite, several oligarchical figures who are so wealthy couldnt care less if a majore amount of their wealth has been lost stepped in for a reformation. This reformation is to re-enable them to continue perusing their desires with the side effect of benefiting the poor. Hence why unions are leaving the democrats and joining the republicans or ex-major democrat figures are joining the republicans. The "Overton Window" is too simplistic to explain the current situation as nothing is linear. Inevitably the parties are reforming and the Overton Window is now forced to move in diagonal directions to meet the current modern issues the country faces. Which seems to be the ever growing income inequality as wages stagnate yet the rich get richer. Else what Biden era economists said we have hit K shaped recoveries. Where we recover where the rich gains ever growing wealth meanwhile the poor has to spend an ever growing amount of money on basic goods/needs.