Former Republican, and I have a saying.

I didn't leave the Republican party, the Republican party left me.

While it seems to be a stereotype, or a bias, it does appear that Conservatives and Republicans are pushing themselves further and further away from reality and branding everything they disagree with as "fake news."

I'm conservative, not Republican. Republicans are conservative. Conservatives are not necessarily republicans.

I have to say YES to both. I'm a republican, because I think the Queen has been Head of State for long enough. We need an Australian President. But also, I'm not affiliated with any political party. Oh wait, were you talking about US politics?

How about an option for "I'm not American" for those of us who don't really know what a republican is?

We do have an idea from the popular press, but we all know how accurate they are!!!

If I was a Republican I certainly wouldn't admit it on this site. There's too many people who equate Republican/conservatism with Trump. Though usually they go hand-in-hand, there are numerous people who are Republican and abhor Trump.

Until today's Republican politicians show some moral backbone, and until Republicans give up their obsession with moribund ideology, I would not consider calling myself a Republican.

My political affiliation is like god, non-existent.

blah politics.... how is anything political "reason"?

I don't like being put in a box when it comes to political views but I would consider myself more conservative than liberal....for the most part, everyone of them are a puppet on a string for the real folks running this country....the ones with endlessly deep pockets

... 'average republican thinker is caught up in the strictures of religion and closed-mindedness...'

anyone happy to vote on party lines in 2016 was very short on reason and logic

I'm a registered Republican but a northeastern version.

why would anyone admit to being on the ostrich team

When I moved to WA State back in the 70's you had to pick a party to register to vote so since my parents were and I registered gop (I can not even put it in capitol letters - no respect them now) in Jersey to vote that's what I did in WA State. But I have never voted republican and they are an abomination, IMO. I am in the middle on my political views. Knowing the history of the Gilded Age, the 1929 crash and the regulations and programs put in place in the 1930 I cringe when I see what the gop has done over 30 years to help the wealthy and big corporate on the backs of 90% of the people in America.

sorry whats a republican? is it Conservative?

Even most religious people aren't "closed minded" in every area of life, at least not to the degree they are about their metaphysics. Compartmentalization is deployed by all kinds of thinkers. So you can have someone open about the [non]existence of god[s], but rigid politically or how they relate to women or children or their professional life. Or staunch theists, even rarely, fundamentalists, but politically quite liberal.

The main reason why atheism correlates strongly with liberal politics is that it's a small minority, which tends to select for non-joiners and iconoclasts, who are more likely to question multiple cultural norms. Also, most atheists are atheists as a consequence of being skeptics, and skeptics are more likely to take whatever position the evidence leads them to, and to be inherently more open to any possibility that presents itself and can be substantiated.

However ... I've met a number of Republican atheists, Libertarian atheists, or in the other direction, socialist or anarchist atheists. I would expect the politics that atheists tend to embrace, to become more diverse as atheism and agnosticism and unaligned theism becomes more prevalent in society. Although my guess is we will always lean a bit more liberal.

In my experience there are aspects of strong Libertarian (Randian / objectivist) philosophy that resonate well with atheism. The belief that everything can be reduced to objective rational deductions, the fallacy of the stolen concept, and other such ideas, I don't quite personally buy, but can see why a lot of atheists might find them attractive.

At any rate, my overall point here is that the religious can and do have intellectual integrity in at least many aspects of life, and the areligious can and do lack it at times. We should be careful, I think, not to paint either group with too broad a brush.

Geographically it depends where I am on whether I’m a Republican or Libertarian/Independent.

I’m fiscally conservative, socially liberal in that you get one go, you shouldn’t be stifled with oppression during it, pro business (especially small) and against aggregating power away from the individual. I am fiercely pro choice AND pro gun. It’s fun to piss off both sides.

I think between 5 and 10. Just a guess.

I do not think those are questions you should ask people. Before you know it, you got a riot going.

I meet a lot of people in a week and I hear a number of political comments.

I've yet to hear one from either a Red Team advocate or a Blue Team advocate who shows even a basic knowledge of what the main candidates for President in 2016 were offering, let alone anyone with a useful grasp of what has happened since.

But they all think they know.

The point of the Red Team / Blue Team is to divide the public and thereby negate the influence of democracy in this country.

It works so well I've heard many saying 'he's not my President' and opting out of politicals until their side gets back in. A sure way to make sure there is never a large enough majority to overcome the lobbyists in Washington.

Of those I know the only Republican has a fuel efficient car and is also the only one with a carbon neutral home. Perhaps the biggest difference is the Blue Team read newspapers and tut tut a lot and think they know everything while the Red Team actually does things.