The Republican Party is for people whose primary concern is one of a theocratic judiciary, paying less taxes if you make more than $400k/yr, white nationalism, extractive industries, military contractors, unrestricted access to any/all classes of firearms.
In both of those groups there are large pro-business, anti-labor contingents.
Hopefully one day we will move to ranked choice voting and other mechanisms that allow 3rd parties to compete and we can have more meaningful and direct connections between parties and specific policies instead of these two loose coalitions.
Also, white nationalism is only embraced by a small percentage of the party. It's not really part of their platform, it's just what the loudest shouters in the party want.
(Disclaimer: I do not identify as repbulican, but if this is your best faith effort to define their platform, you lack empathy for them which means you'll never understand even their lucid ideas. Granted, many of their ideas are vague and not lucid.)
I'm not saying that all Republicans are white nationalist and anti-abortion but I haven't met a Republican whose primary political concern wasn't one of the issues I listed.
And everybody I've met whose primary issue is one of those that I listed has been Republican.
The vast majority of my extended family, whom I love, is Republican. There isn't some great mystery to understanding their political motivations.
Did I miss a Republican Party coalition from my list?
But this is also I reason why I think ranked-choice voting is so compelling. I've met Republicans who essentially only vote Republican because they want to defend their 2nd amendment right but otherwise would be much more likely to support left-wing economic causes. But the way policies are bundled in our two parties they are forced to vote according to their primary concern.
The last family gathering we all had together, pre-covid thanksgiving, they all spent much of the time telling me how I had to "be afraid" of Mexicans and Arabs for a variety of reasons. I'm kind of dumb in social situations and kind of polite so I just stood there entirely unsure how I should even respond to that.
have I talked to a single republican? I've talked to several that I'd known all my life, who all came out with the race baiting stuff.
Part of the reason may be that the divide between Democrats and Republicans is much wider on those issues vs labor issues.
Cancelling student debt will help a shit tonne more workers.
He has a section on his campaign website addressing Union specifics:
https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/
Well see what he can actually does, but with the senate in democrat hands, the sky is the limit.
I will feel terrible if that ever happens for folks that were smart with money and didn't incur tons of debt. It's gonna be a real bummer when you learn that you paid off your educational debt or never had any and that now you get to pay off debt of others that made bad decisions.
I agree emotionally. But that's life, if you actually believe in education you can only really pay if forwards...
"bad decisions"
Imagine thinking that earning a degree was a "bad decision".
It's all theater.
Bernie Sanders and AOC would like a word. Most of their platform is based around supporting the working class.