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    Historians have a word for people who joined the Nazi party, openly associated with Nazis and flew the Nazi flag because of economic anxiety, misplaced politics or simple ignorance.

    Nazi. The word is Nazi.

    If these people do not like what the party currently stands for, then it is incredibly easy to simply not associate with them.

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      Again, both sides have egg on their face. Democrats will throw up a bunch of nothing burger laws that either do nothing to solve issues (like gun laws that anyone with any knowledge of firearms knows will be circumvented with ease, assuming that throwing money at the welfare system will solve issues with how it is often handled corruptly or can have unforeseen consequences), or they will commit crimes (see Joe Biden). The current state of politics is everyone is evil, people have just decided to vote for who the think is the lesser of two evils. Also I think this may be a difference in experience, as most of the republicans I have met are very much against Nazism. Such is the difficulty with generalizations, who’s right? WHO KNOWS! All we know is that we hate the other guy.

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          Which republican candidate? And I don’t wanna be the “SoUrCe!” guy. But anyone can make up some BS, I even almost fell into that hole myself. I ask as I don’t recall any major republican openly saying this or pushing for a bill that would effectively do this. And even if there is a republican politician that is open about this, I would wonder what there traction was with the rest of the party. Because anyone can call themselves a republican, we would need to prove that such an individual has had enough backing as to be able to represent the rest of the party before we could make a generalization.

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        No, I don’t hate the other guy. I have 30 years worth of experience dealing with well meaning conservatives. I hate Nazis. I can tell the difference. If you can’t because the issue is too close to home, again, that is on you.

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          Key word “well meaning conservatives” my argument is that we should not label said conservatives as Nazis or their group as Nazis because that’s not what their about. They may have Nazis in their party, and Nazis may be encouraging certain policies. However it is bad faith to call them Nazis. As with the 30 years of experience, that’s fair. I have a relatively short knowledge on modern politics. With how almost all media is biased one way or the other, my young age, and my lack of time due to college: many of my opinions I still consider a work in progress and I’m still researching them out. Most debates I have are about what I see in front of me at the moment. What I see in front of me is well meaning republicans who ignore me when I disagree with them, because I’m a woke liberal who is going to call them a Nazi (even when we agree). I just want people to stop labeling because it just leads to more hatred when we should be able to talk it out like adults.