Posted by strikeout26 on 5/28/2018 8:22:00 AM (view original):
Posted by tangplay on 5/27/2018 11:49:00 PM (view original):
Posted by strikeout26 on 5/27/2018 10:10:00 PM (view original):
You're not going to be able to break through. There are few on here that are so politically extreme that it's not worth discussing politics with them. You will figure out who they are. Actually, i'm sure you are already figuring it out.
Far-left:
Dino
BL
Bracco
Left:
tang
Taint
Laramiebob
Moderate:
Wylie
miami
Right:
CCCP
Strikeout
All3
Far-right:
Moy
Dougout
Yep, that's about right. Bob is actually probably moderately left.
Labels are just ridiculously imprecise........in other words pure bullshit.
I, too, consider myself A Classic liberal........... as I believe in the purpose and the protections enshrined in our founding documents...... which are clearly LIBERAL governing principles. The word liberal should NOT be considered a negative, neither should the word Conservative. It isn't the word's (or the principle's) fault that the current/modern era Repugnants have co-opted the word and made it as negative and ugly as they have.
The truth about me is that politically I can't be defined or pigeonholed by the issues that folks usually use. AND, I am probably inconsistent within my general philosophy depending on my present attitude and the issue I am attacking............. but given all those disclaimers....... I fall into the same general area as strikeout, I think it was, I have disdain for BOTH major parties....... the amount varies based on whom you're referring to........... generally I'm a social "lefty" and a fiscal "righty" and I completely understood Reagan's appeal when he said the words Americans fear the most are "...I'm from the Government and I'm here to help you"..............
I also believe it should NOT be that way and when we give in to that much cynicism and distrust of our OWN government.......... we lose.
And, we end up with the KINDS of candidates we've had over the last several decades............ you know choices like HRC vs. "The King of Debt",
or
Bush vs. Clinton
or
Bush vs. Dukakis, etc and etc...........
I could keep listing our election choices but you ought to be able to get the point...........
If you haven't go look at the list of major party candidates JUST 1960 and beyond.......... you'll see.
Modern republicans have lost their party and their way........... they're NOW the party of division and racism.
Modern democrats have lost their party, too........ to the left-wing extremists that the Dems welcomed into their party without challenge since Bubba Clinton's last gasp. Look at Boris' big issue for example... How is it that the Dem party have become so blind/tolerant that they allow some nutjob to prance around their convention waving a Palestinian flag without challenge or censor....... and how many VOTERS who would normally vote Dem. (like the Jewish banker Boris) were so angered (like Boris) that now they've resorted to supporting evil-doers like Trump and just attempting to turn a blind eye to ALL his "short-comings" (the NICEST word I could think of!)............ and voting Republican because it's the so-called
only other choice to the Dems???
So, (most) real folks are left without any REAL representation.
We just argue without purpose because NONE of us count at all with ******** like Trump OR HRC!