Pete, I became a Democrat right out of high school because I believed what John Kennedy said and in what he stood for. I supported Jimmy Carter and actively campaigned for George McGovern because Nixon was an obvious criminal. I could not in good conscience support Carter the second time nor could I support Reagan so I am one of the two people in the country who v**ed for John Anderson. I returned to the Democrat fold after Anderson and even v**ed for Bill Clinton... the first time. Bubba made a Conservative out of me with his "co-Presidency" BS and his greater wisdom of spending my money than he credited me with. Since then, I have not found a single Democrat candidate for the presidency even marginally acceptable. I have not been all that thrilled with the Republican offerings either but at least they demonstrate a measure of sanity.

I gave up on the Democrats because the Democrats t***smuted from the party of conscience into the party of do-it-my-way-or-you're-just-another-Hitler.

Today, that organization that calls itself the Democrat Party has gone waaaaay beyond that and can only be characterized as escapees from some looney-bin. They have no solid grip on reality and have openly committed themselves to the destruction of everything that was once considered fine, upstanding and decent. They have no cultural, legal or moral center and are incapable of seeing the folly of their ways... even in San Francisco and L A... even while dodging the openly discarded needles, the human feces on the sidewalks, the rats and the scourge of medieval diseases that they are reintroducing into American society... or Chicago or Baltimore, while trying to get out of the way of stray bullets and gang violence.

If they were just bent on their own suicide, they would eng****r my pity and my sorrow. Unfortunately, they clearly intend to d**g all of the rest of us into that dead abyss that they are rushing headlong towards. I am sorry that the Democrats are no longer even able to recognize the shadow of their past. It is a past I remain proud of.

Good for you. I v**ed for Kennedy also. Johnson made me take another look at the Democrat party and reject it. My concern now is my grandchildren. We destroy their future more every day with deficit spending. The Democrats intend to spend more money than there is in the world with free give aways. Free tuition, free loan forgiveness, free childcare, free healthcare for the entire world, free guaranteed income, r********ns, and I'm sure before the e******ns, free housing and a free car. Socialism on steroids. I almost forgot the wonderful free stuff the Democrats offer the very lucky people living in Democrat run cities, free typhoid, free plague and free measles. How could anyone not love their generosity?

Semper Fi

"He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached or v**ed out by 2020.

But Removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the on-line radicalization that drummed up his army; nor the r****m that he amplified and reanimated." (AOC)

What she is saying is simple--the problem doesn't lie with Trump but his followers. There is not a conservative follower in this country who thinks that he is r****t because he how he speaks and what he says is just like what they think and what they say.

And if what AOC has to say isn't enough here are some words by President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, and a message for people who are excusing President Trump's r****m:

"I had fully intended to ignore President Trump’s latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it. I had every intention of walking past Trump’s latest outrages and writing about the self-destructive squabbling of the Democratic p**********l field, which has chosen to shame former vice president Joe Biden for the sin of being an electable, moderate liberal.

But I made the mistake of pulling James Cone’s 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' off my shelf — a book designed to shatter convenient complacency.

Cone recounts the case of a white mob in Valdosta, Ga., in 1918 that lynched an innocent man named Haynes Turner. Turner’s enraged wife, Mary, promised justice for the k**lers. The sheriff responded by arresting her and then turning her over to the mob, which included women and children. According to one source, Mary was 'stripped, hung upside down by the ankles, soaked with gasoline, and roasted to death. In the midst of this torment, a white man opened her swollen belly with a hunting knife and her infant fell to the ground and was stomped to death.'

God help us.

It is hard to write the words.

This evil — the evil of w***e s*******y, resulting in dehumanization, inhumanity and murder — is the worst stain, the greatest crime, of U.S. history. It is the thing that nearly broke the nation. It is the thing that proved generations of Christians to be vicious hypocrites. It is the thing that turned normal people into moral monsters, capable of burning a grieving widow to death and k*****g her child.

When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for a walk, it is not just another political event, not just a normal day in campaign 2020. It is a cause for shame. It is the violation of martyrs’ graves. It is obscene graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial. It is, in the eyes of history, the betrayal — the re-betrayal — of Haynes and Mary Turner and their child. And all of this is being done by an ignorant and arrogant narcissist reviving r****t tropes for political gain, indifferent to the wreckage he is leaving, the wounds he is ripping open.

Like, I suspect, many others, I am finding it hard to look at resurgent r****m as just one in a series of p**********l offenses or another in a series of Republican errors. R****m is not just another wrong. The Antietam battlefield is not just another plot of ground. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is not just another bridge. The balcony outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel is not just another balcony. As U.S. history hallows some causes, it magnifies some crimes.

What does all this mean politically? It means that Trump’s d******eness is getting worse, not better. He makes r****t comments, appeals to r****t sentiments and inflames r****t passions. The rationalization that he is not, deep down in his heart, really a r****t is meaningless. Trump’s continued offenses mean that a large portion of his political base is energized by r****t tropes and the language of white grievance. And it means — wh**ever their intent — that those who play down, or excuse, or try to walk past these offenses are enablers.

Some political choices are not just stupid or crude.

They represent the return of our country’s cruelest, most dangerous passion. Such r****m indicts Trump. Treating r****m as a typical or minor matter indicts us." — Michael Gerson

When this country elected Barack Obama I honestly thought we had put our most r****t days behind us. But I was wrong and by a long shot. Obama wasn't in office two weeks when McConnell was vowing to make him a one-term president. To do that it would mean he would have to do everything possible to scuttle Obama's policies in the hope that economic ruin would take Obama down. Well, that would be fine if Obama were the only person in the country but what McConnell was saying is that he was willing to screw an entire nation, just so one person didn't see another term.

And then come's birtherism--no r****m there (wink wink)--and that's what Trump honed in on and fed on his way to becoming president of the United States. If r****m was new in this country that would be one thing, and while both sides were guilty of r****m during the Civil War, it was the Democrats who eventually drug themselves out of the muck that hatred for a man's skin color was in this country.

I take no p***e that the Democratic party was so dominated by Southerners but then I had to ask myself how much had those southern's changed over the centuries. Well from the sound of Dixicrats, when it comes to the Blackman, not a whole hell of a lot.

The resurgence in r****m in this party isn't coming from the Democrat party but from your party and is being spoon-fed to you by Donald J Trump. When he screams there is a Brown invasion, someone listened, and it only took one to listen to see the danger in the words that DJT uses. But hey, he thinks like you think right? And he speaks like you speak right? And you're not a r****t are you? So by default DJT couldn't be a r****t--unless of course--you were too...

This one is getting long so I will create a new post because I am going to trace the history of the Democrat Party and the Republican party just so you could see which one you would identify with today.

"He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached or v**ed out by 2020.

But Removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the on-line radicalization that drummed up his army; nor the r****m that he amplified and reanimated." (AOC)

What she is saying is simple--the problem doesn't lie with Trump but his followers. There is not a conservative follower in this country who thinks that he is r****t because he how he speaks and what he says is just like what they think and what they say.

And if what AOC has to say isn't enough here are some words by President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, and a message for people who are excusing President Trump's r****m:

"I had fully intended to ignore President Trump’s latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it. I had every intention of walking past Trump’s latest outrages and writing about the self-destructive squabbling of the Democratic p**********l field, which has chosen to shame former vice president Joe Biden for the sin of being an electable, moderate liberal.

But I made the mistake of pulling James Cone’s 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' off my shelf — a book designed to shatter convenient complacency.

Cone recounts the case of a white mob in Valdosta, Ga., in 1918 that lynched an innocent man named Haynes Turner. Turner’s enraged wife, Mary, promised justice for the k**lers. The sheriff responded by arresting her and then turning her over to the mob, which included women and children. According to one source, Mary was 'stripped, hung upside down by the ankles, soaked with gasoline, and roasted to death. In the midst of this torment, a white man opened her swollen belly with a hunting knife and her infant fell to the ground and was stomped to death.'

God help us.

It is hard to write the words.

This evil — the evil of w***e s*******y, resulting in dehumanization, inhumanity and murder — is the worst stain, the greatest crime, of U.S. history. It is the thing that nearly broke the nation. It is the thing that proved generations of Christians to be vicious hypocrites. It is the thing that turned normal people into moral monsters, capable of burning a grieving widow to death and k*****g her child.

When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for a walk, it is not just another political event, not just a normal day in campaign 2020. It is a cause for shame. It is the violation of martyrs’ graves. It is obscene graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial. It is, in the eyes of history, the betrayal — the re-betrayal — of Haynes and Mary Turner and their child. And all of this is being done by an ignorant and arrogant narcissist reviving r****t tropes for political gain, indifferent to the wreckage he is leaving, the wounds he is ripping open.

Like, I suspect, many others, I am finding it hard to look at resurgent r****m as just one in a series of p**********l offenses or another in a series of Republican errors. R****m is not just another wrong. The Antietam battlefield is not just another plot of ground. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is not just another bridge. The balcony outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel is not just another balcony. As U.S. history hallows some causes, it magnifies some crimes.

What does all this mean politically? It means that Trump’s d******eness is getting worse, not better. He makes r****t comments, appeals to r****t sentiments and inflames r****t passions. The rationalization that he is not, deep down in his heart, really a r****t is meaningless. Trump’s continued offenses mean that a large portion of his political base is energized by r****t tropes and the language of white grievance. And it means — wh**ever their intent — that those who play down, or excuse, or try to walk past these offenses are enablers.

Some political choices are not just stupid or crude.

They represent the return of our country’s cruelest, most dangerous passion. Such r****m indicts Trump. Treating r****m as a typical or minor matter indicts us." — Michael Gerson

When this country elected Barack Obama I honestly thought we had put our most r****t days behind us. But I was wrong and by a long shot. Obama wasn't in office two weeks when McConnell was vowing to make him a one-term president. To do that it would mean he would have to do everything possible to scuttle Obama's policies in the hope that economic ruin would take Obama down. Well, that would be fine if Obama were the only person in the country but what McConnell was saying is that he was willing to screw an entire nation, just so one person didn't see another term.

And then come's birtherism--no r****m there (wink wink)--and that's what Trump honed in on and fed on his way to becoming president of the United States. If r****m was new in this country that would be one thing, and while both sides were guilty of r****m during the Civil War, it was the Democrats who eventually drug themselves out of the muck that hatred for a man's skin color was in this country.

I take no p***e that the Democratic party was so dominated by Southerners but then I had to ask myself how much had those southern's changed over the centuries. Well from the sound of Dixicrats, when it comes to the Blackman, not a whole hell of a lot.

The resurgence in r****m in this party isn't coming from the Democrat party but from your party and is being spoon-fed to you by Donald J Trump. When he screams there is a Brown invasion, someone listened, and it only took one to listen to see the danger in the words that DJT uses. But hey, he thinks like you think right? And he speaks like you speak right? And you're not a r****t are you? So by default DJT couldn't be a r****t--unless of course--you were too...

This one is getting long so I will create a new post because I am going to trace the history of the Democrat Party and the Republican party just so you could see which one you would identify with today.

"He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached or v**ed out by 2020.

But Removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the on-line radicalization that drummed up his army; nor the r****m that he amplified and reanimated." (AOC)

What she is saying is simple--the problem doesn't lie with Trump but his followers. There is not a conservative follower in this country who thinks that he is r****t because he how he speaks and what he says is just like what they think and what they say.

And if what AOC has to say isn't enough here are some words by President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, and a message for people who are excusing President Trump's r****m:

"I had fully intended to ignore President Trump’s latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it. I had every intention of walking past Trump’s latest outrages and writing about the self-destructive squabbling of the Democratic p**********l field, which has chosen to shame former vice president Joe Biden for the sin of being an electable, moderate liberal.

But I made the mistake of pulling James Cone’s 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' off my shelf — a book designed to shatter convenient complacency.

Cone recounts the case of a white mob in Valdosta, Ga., in 1918 that lynched an innocent man named Haynes Turner. Turner’s enraged wife, Mary, promised justice for the k**lers. The sheriff responded by arresting her and then turning her over to the mob, which included women and children. According to one source, Mary was 'stripped, hung upside down by the ankles, soaked with gasoline, and roasted to death. In the midst of this torment, a white man opened her swollen belly with a hunting knife and her infant fell to the ground and was stomped to death.'

God help us.

It is hard to write the words.

This evil — the evil of w***e s*******y, resulting in dehumanization, inhumanity and murder — is the worst stain, the greatest crime, of U.S. history. It is the thing that nearly broke the nation. It is the thing that proved generations of Christians to be vicious hypocrites. It is the thing that turned normal people into moral monsters, capable of burning a grieving widow to death and k*****g her child.

When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for a walk, it is not just another political event, not just a normal day in campaign 2020. It is a cause for shame. It is the violation of martyrs’ graves. It is obscene graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial. It is, in the eyes of history, the betrayal — the re-betrayal — of Haynes and Mary Turner and their child. And all of this is being done by an ignorant and arrogant narcissist reviving r****t tropes for political gain, indifferent to the wreckage he is leaving, the wounds he is ripping open.

Like, I suspect, many others, I am finding it hard to look at resurgent r****m as just one in a series of p**********l offenses or another in a series of Republican errors. R****m is not just another wrong. The Antietam battlefield is not just another plot of ground. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is not just another bridge. The balcony outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel is not just another balcony. As U.S. history hallows some causes, it magnifies some crimes.

What does all this mean politically? It means that Trump’s d******eness is getting worse, not better. He makes r****t comments, appeals to r****t sentiments and inflames r****t passions. The rationalization that he is not, deep down in his heart, really a r****t is meaningless. Trump’s continued offenses mean that a large portion of his political base is energized by r****t tropes and the language of white grievance. And it means — wh**ever their intent — that those who play down, or excuse, or try to walk past these offenses are enablers.

Some political choices are not just stupid or crude.

They represent the return of our country’s cruelest, most dangerous passion. Such r****m indicts Trump. Treating r****m as a typical or minor matter indicts us." — Michael Gerson

When this country elected Barack Obama I honestly thought we had put our most r****t days behind us. But I was wrong and by a long shot. Obama wasn't in office two weeks when McConnell was vowing to make him a one-term president. To do that it would mean he would have to do everything possible to scuttle Obama's policies in the hope that economic ruin would take Obama down. Well, that would be fine if Obama were the only person in the country but what McConnell was saying is that he was willing to screw an entire nation, just so one person didn't see another term.

And then come's birtherism--no r****m there (wink wink)--and that's what Trump honed in on and fed on his way to becoming president of the United States. If r****m was new in this country that would be one thing, and while both sides were guilty of r****m during the Civil War, it was the Democrats who eventually drug themselves out of the muck that hatred for a man's skin color was in this country.

I take no p***e that the Democratic party was so dominated by Southerners but then I had to ask myself how much had those southern's changed over the centuries. Well from the sound of Dixicrats, when it comes to the Blackman, not a whole hell of a lot.

The resurgence in r****m in this party isn't coming from the Democrat party but from your party and is being spoon-fed to you by Donald J Trump. When he screams there is a Brown invasion, someone listened, and it only took one to listen to see the danger in the words that DJT uses. But hey, he thinks like you think right? And he speaks like you speak right? And you're not a r****t are you? So by default DJT couldn't be a r****t--unless of course--you were too...

This one is getting long so I will create a new post because I am going to trace the history of the Democrat Party and the Republican party just so you could see which one you would identify with today.