DEMOCRATS
- People who work full time shouldn’t live in poverty
- Homelessness shouldn’t exist in the richest country in the world
- Women deserve both equal rights and equal pay
- Corporations and rich people shouldn’t be able to legally bribe politicians
- Trashing the planet for profit is wrong and must stop
- Every American should have world-class healthcare at little or no cost
- Free higher education (and quality public schools) unlock human potential which benefits the entire country
- Children should learn the true racial history of America so they can empathize with their peers who are still experiencing these problems and grow up to become well-informed adults
- Women should make their own medical decisions, not politicians
- Massively profitable industries, from oil/coal/gas to Walmart and Amazon, shouldn’t get billions in subsidies and tax breaks
- Children shouldn’t fear getting shot at school
- When Wall Street banksters steal from us all, they should be imprisoned instead of bailed out
- No CEO is worth $100,000 an hour ($20 million a year) or more
REPUBLICANS
- “Free and fair elections” are for suckers
- White men should run the country and the world
- Violence is a legitimate tool in politics
- Conspiracy theories like the one suggesting Democrats drink children’s blood as an “elixir of youth” are probably real
- Rich people and their kids shouldn’t have to pay taxes
- More guns means less crime and fewer deaths
- The darker your skin, the more likely you’re a criminal
- Leadership is about instilling fear, not vision
- Women are men’s property
- Climate change and evolution are tricks to take away our freedoms and ruin religion
- Education makes people stupid
- Going into politics is the ticket to riches and fame
- Rich people should make a buck off everything the government does through privatization
- Helping people who’re going through a rough patch is a waste of time
- The “rule of law” only applies to minorities and the poor
- Money and power are the only truly important things in life
- Teaching the true racial history of America is a plot to make white children feel sad
- LGBTQ people don’t deserve respect or rights
- Wealth is proof of goodness; poverty is proof of moral failure
- “Giving” citizens things like healthcare, education, family leave, etc. are all “socialism” and will destroy “the American way of life”
- Government has no right to regulate pollution or protect consumers
- “Fiscal responsibility” is a phrase that can justify just about anything
Source: "The Shocking Things the GOP and Trumpians Believe" by Thom Hartmann - Daily Kos - January 08, 2022
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