If Libertarians actually supported gay rights and drug legalization more than low taxes, then they wouldn't vote Republican all the time.
Gay rights are mainstream in both parties these days and not a concern. That would have been a great factor in shifting me to the left.
While I'm much in favour for complete drug legalisation, between the chance of getting legal drugs + higher taxes and no legal drugs + same or lower taxes, I'd always pick the second one.
After legal drugs are a mainstream topic and given for granted, I would have even less arguments for voting liberal.
Conservatives are not great in social policies, liberals are not great in economic policies.
Moreover liberals became against free speech, against gun rights and pro cancel culture which is ruining their only appeal - freedom in social policies. They're also pro in a lot of things I find morally abhorrent, like abortion (infringement on the unborn baby's freedom) and transitioning transgender underage kids.
I do think the Republicans, especially when they were more heavily influenced by the “religious right” had a noticeably worse position when it came to gay rights. However, that appears to be in the past. Let’s remember that in 2004 even Obama was opposed to gay marriage. Society took a while to evolve on the issue. And both parties have evolved since what they were in the 80s, 90s, and 00s.
That's unmitigated bullshit and you know it, and you're living in a fantasy world.
Why do you find it necessary to lie like that? Especially when it's so mendacious on its face and so easily disproven.
Trump used to be pro-gay, and claimed during the campaign that he was the best friend of gays, but then he actually "de-evolved" to support and empower the anti-gay evangelical bigots who STILL run the Republican party, so your argument is incoherent nonsense that flies in the face of reality and fools nobody, in the defense of bigotry.
It's really insulting you'd attempt such a poorly executed Gish Gallop, and you don't deserve any proof that you're wrong in response, because you're just making shit up to defend and exonerate terrible bigots.
Hillary IMPROVED. Trump GOT WORSE. There is no equivalence. They're OPPOSITES.
So no, the Republican Party doesn't get credit for being just the same as the Democratic Party, and it most certainly cuts much worse in one way than the other. So please spare us the false equivalences and revisionist whitewashing of institutionalized GOP bigotry.
Then name some openly gay Republicans in power, and tell me what they've done to tangibly improve LGBT lives. (Who didn't switch to the Democratic party after coming out, like Charlie Crist, and who don't deny it, like Larry Craig or Lindsey Graham.)
Are the Log Cabin Republicans finally being taken seriously?
Republican LGBTQ rights group’s executive director is the latest to leave after its endorsement of Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/executive-director-o...
Conservative LGBT group denied a spot at Texas GOP convention
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/...
I'd love to see something about this
Are you maybe conflating transgender demands vs gay rights?
There is definitely opposition to "gender is what you identify with and not something objective", which I think it's reasonable - there are biologically 2 genders (not including extra chromosome anomalies).
At the same time, everyone is free to believe and say what they want and noone is trying to change that. The main opposition is around compelling speech according to someone preference not to trigger them or allowing parents to inject hormones in underage kids.