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> After 40 years of demonization of political opponents, it's all about "with us or against us."

This isn't a uniquely Republican point of view, nor is it as prevalent among the Republican voter base as you imply.

Have you lived up north recently? Specifically the so-called "tech hubs" are filled with vile and judgemental people who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of groupthink and monoculture.

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When it comes to the political issue that I hold most dear, housing, I will say that most liberals and lefties lose their supposed values when it's close to home. NIMBY opposition to apartments and multi family housing is a shared value, and it's only the Republicans in these areas who speak about their honest opinions, where as liberals will invent all sorts of reasons to justify their aesthetic preference, and ignore the chance for greater economic, environmental, and racial justice in their own neighborhoods.

However, when it comes to rural areas, areas that don't even have leftists but may have a few liberals, my experience is that the anti-lib stance is the overriding view, along with being pro-gun, pro-God (at least in theory), and pro-fossil fuel. It's a cultural war more than a political war, in-tribe versus out-of-tribe. For Democrats, the culture war does not extend to swapping values on the national stage depending on who is in power, it only seems to be loca control of housing.

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Where is "up north"?

> vile and judgemental people who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of groupthink and monoculture

Just start quoting Jordan Peterson and save us the implications and dancing around your point.