Should republicans be considered moderates, instead of right wingers? explanation of question below?

Question

Socialism and communism are far left wing ideals of government.

Dictatorship and totalitarianism are far right wing ideals of government.


The democrat party, and most liberals support socialism of different levels, many extremely.

The republican party does not support dictatorships, nor totalitaranisms. In fact, the republican party just helped remove a dictator from office, and supports the building of a democratic government.

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SO... Doesn't that tell us:

The Democrat party is left wing.
People who support people such as saddam and the iranian president (not going to try to spell it) are the right wing.
The Republican party are the conservatives.

If you say no, please explain, and not with a "Bush is a dictator" or other crap like that. That would just shows your animosity towards my logic, and prove you have no rebuttal

I meant to say, "republican party are the 'moderates'" above in the summation.

Answer 1

It is quite funny that the Democrats used to be the anti-govt party. They used to push for justice rather than for themselves. Those days are long in the past.

Republicans have become the party of limited govt, although they lost the last election for losing their way on this one issue. The era of Reaganism shaped the Republican party and conservatism by pushing for limited govt., reduced taxation, fighting communism (Reagan won), and strong family values.
The truth is most of the world is very left wing, so most conservatives to them are "Right wingers", but the values of the Democrats are not moderate, they have moved to the Left.
ie: JFK had a large taxcut, which would be considered very "Right wing" by the neo-socialist Dems of today. That taxcut caused a rally in the economy of the time, and has worked every time implimented since then.

In the end, don't worry about the labels, just do what was right, as Ronald Reagan would have. He sought the destruction of the "evil empire" that was the Soviet Union, and brought the Berlin wall down, even as Liberals sought peace through negotiation (I would label this "Carterism").

Answer 2

As you can see, many will deny the fact that the Republican party has been guided by nothing but extremists. But the fact that most will still pay alms to Ronald Reagan, that so many of us were duped into supporting, is a pretty good sign that you are in fact correct. I booted the Republican party to the curb when it became the party of Ronald Reagan and Southern Conservatives, which don't remind me much of conservatism at all. At one time, conservatives were people who believed in being left alone to do their own thing. This new breed has anything but a "leave me alone to do my own thing" mentality. It is all about winning the race to subject everyone else to their personal beliefs rooted in some misguided biblical views that has been twisted and perverted by cult-like mentality and following of extremist leaders. Moderate Repblicans? There are a few who cling to the dream that you can be a moderate and a Republican at the same time. There are even those very few who still cling to the dream that you can be Republican and still want smaller government. But the rest of us woke up when Ronald Reagan sold us out to the Chinese, the defense technology developers, and the energy corporations, thinking jingoism would suffice in the place of a stong America. All that did is result in the nationalists that claim it as patriotism looking back to better days, not realizing the better days of America was the pre-Ronald Reagan era.

Answer 3

The question although correct in categorization of the extremes does not properly represent either party. The majority in both parties are moderate and generally lean just left or right of center. Just because you are a Democrat does not mean that you embrace the extremist ideas of the left wing any more than being a Republican means that you embrace the extreme right wing. I know many Democrats who are not socialist at all in their thinking. Just because someone may support causes which are aimed at helping the poor, or providing medical care does not make them socialist. It is this type of question which clouds the issue in general because it seeks to paint large cross sections of people with a generic brush in a negative way.

Answer 4

First off, Nicolas, I'd like to thank you for using a question filled with facts, rather than anger. As for the answer, technically, Republicans would still be considered right wing. It's sorta like water: one drop of blue makes it blue, one drop of red makes it red. I do not consider myself Liberal, but many would easily mistake me for being so. I believe gun control would be helpful, but a full-on lockdown of arms would actually HURT us, and I find PC in itself annoying and unnecessary.

Ciao, the Dark Angel.

Answer 5

Unfortunately the Republican party has been pushing theocratic law in an effort to pander to the religious right wing. A Christian theocracy is no better than Muslim theocracy.

That alone eliminates the possibility of the classification of moderate.

I used to be a republican until they abandoned fiscal conservatism and went all religious right wing.

Now I have to go with the libertarians or at worst the democrats.

Edit - What is with all of the thumbs down?
Do you seriously deny that the proposed gay marriage ban was anything but an attempt to have the government enforce religious doctrine with theocratic law?

What about the Office of Faith Based Initiatives in the White House, how is even the existence of that government institution not an endorsement of theocracy?

You cannot claim to be moderate at the same time as attacking religious freedom for non-Christians.

No wonder republicans lie so much, you can't even tell yourselves the truth.

Answer 6

I am not in total agreeance with either the democratic or republican party, sadly if I had to choose, I would pick republican...
I don't see improvements under a democratic regime...all this socialistic agendas they have...by the way-- they themselves--like Hillary Clinton would not partake in...like socialistic medicine...better believe she'd be on her private jet out of here to her personal physician...etc...you better believe her daughter went to private schools..... you get my drift.

Answer 7

Maybe. There are moderates in every party. I suspect the same with the Republicans.

Answer 8

Well, I guess I never thought of it that way before but you are brilliant.

It seems to me that conservatives are the only ones with any common sense. The rest live in some dillusional world with only their voices to entertain them.

Answer 9

It's tough to argue with your thinking.

Answer 10

Stop all the name-calling and you won't have a problem.