Hello,
I just joined this morning. Female, just moved to Bend, Oregon from Reno, Nevada. Went to high school with both Dean Heller and Mark Amodai.
I am a Democrat. Very disgusted and wary of Trump. I'm very interested in the ongoing investigations. Personally believe he is very heavily involved with criminal activity, both here and abroad.
I continue to wonder about this question: Why are so many of Trump 's followers blind to what he is doing? Why are they buying his lies?

Hello,
I just joined this morning. Female, just moved to Bend, Oregon from Reno, Nevada. Went to high school with both Dean Heller and Mark Amodai.
I am a Democrat. Very disgusted and wary of Trump. I'm very interested in the ongoing investigations. Personally believe he is very heavily involved with criminal activity, both here and abroad.
I continue to wonder about this question: Why are so many of Trump 's followers blind to what he is doing? Why are they buying his lies?

Those who cry "socialism" as an argument against universal or single-payer (government paid) health care for everyone in the country should also opt out of protection by tax payer funded fire protection, tax payer funded mandatory education, tax payer funded streets and highways, tax payer funded parks and recreational facilities, tax payer funded police protection - the list gets longer the more you look without a preconceived notion as to what constitutes "socialism" and base your observations on the one criterion of "if the government pays for it, and those of a lower socio-economic class than you benefit from it to an equal degree as their 'betters', it must be socialism". You must also judge cooperative civil actions as an expression of a social behavior to allow you to judge something done by the representative government for the good of those residing in the nation as " socialism ". I, personally, like having the services the body politic provides, and having first hand experience with "socialized medicine " in England, I believe it would be a great improvement over our current, very expensive, piecemeal system of medical care. And for those who claim the English system is inferior - tiled and other hard surfaced floors which are much more easily kept sanitary than the carpets expected in American medical institutions was the biggest difference I noticed, other than their lack of paranoia when it comes to pain relief. Their cross-infection rates demonstrate their superior sanitation. They value the medical effects of the environment over a need to prove their facilities' supposed superiority over others by installing a more posh environment. There's a reason surgical suites are all hard bare surfaces other than those specific to a particular individual. With surgeons on their feet all day, you can bet they'd prefer soft carpets if it was safe.

The Lawyers’ Party By Bruce Walker

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers’ Party…
Barack Obama is a lawyer.
Michelle Obama is a lawyer.
Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.
Bill Clinton is a lawyer.
John Edwards is a lawyer.
Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer.
Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).
Every Democrat vice p**********l nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.
Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different.
President Bush is a businessman.
Vice President Cheney is a businessman.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution:
Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
Tom Delay was an exterminator.
Dick Armey was an economist.
House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer.
The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976.

The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.

The Lawyers’ Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America. And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers’ Party, grow.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become “adverse parties” of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.

When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

We cannot expect the Lawyers’ Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America. Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy. Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the t***h that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as “spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you” and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being v**ed on by the Democrat Party.

When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!

https://lockdoc1.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/the-lawyers-party-by-bruce-walker/

If yours is conservative then you've been on the wrong side of history

My friends over at Americans Against the Tea Party put it best when they said, “What does it say about a movement whose brightest “stars” are the dimmest bulbs?” It says, laugh at them, pity them, but if you want to live in a modern nation of laws which evolves with the rest of the globe, for Heaven’s sake, DON’T look to them for ideas on how to operate a functioning society, since the only thing conservatives have been successful at is proving that everything they stand for is wrong.
Let’s imagine this scenario: You have an uncle…a loud, opinionated, uncle who’s thinly veiled r****m and misogyny is only superseded by his not-so-thinly veiled hatred of gays. He says he’s a Christian, but never misses the opportunity to cheer for war and bloviate proudly about how merciless he is. He fights anything that has a hint of challenging his perceived position in the straight/white/male catbird seat, even if that seat came from the fact that the Liberals he h**es fought for the Social Security, Medicare, etc. that allows him to live in dignity. He regales you with factually incorrect tales of American history, despite having never read a book in his life. He disdains “intellectuals,” and perceives science as a “liberal plot.” For as far back as you remember – and as far back as the family tree goes – he has been wrong about everything.

You must tolerate him because, after all, he’s family. But you certainly don’t follow his advice, and you certainly don’t look to him to shape government policy.
But in the United States today, as normal people (non-conservatives) try to undo the damage from conservative destruction and try to create a society that works for all, we are continuously met with the same old stories of the impending doom that awaits if we dare stop following CONS to hell. This opposition at every turn weaves the old, familiar tales of the American landscape being littered with gulags and mass graves from government death panels if we…say…dare offer health care as a right like the rest of the civilized world. We hear Paul Ryan tickle the oversized-amygdala (fear center) in the conservative brain, as he paints a picture of millions of lazy bums swinging in the cushy hammock of our social safety net which isn’t so cushy. We’re warned that rich people will stop trickling all those fabulous jobs on us if they are forced to contribute to the society that gave them so much. These are nothing but bald-faced lies from bald-faced liars who have ALWAYS been on the wrong side of history.

No I don't favor destroying an industry an industry with nothing lined up to replace it but Wind , wave action, and increasingly solar has been lining up for a long time and natural gas a plentiful and much cleaner burning f****l f**l and cheaper. China is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, having overtaken the United States in 2007, and was responsible for 27 percent of global emissions in 2014.

The country’s energy consumption has ballooned, with reports from late 2015 implying that it consumed up to 17 percent more coal than previously reported. In January 2013, Beijing experienced a prolonged bout of smog so severe that citizens dubbed it an “airpocalypse”; the concentration of hazardous particles was forty times the level deemed safe by the World Health Organization (WHO). In December 2015, Beijing issued red alerts for severe pollution—the first since the emergency alert system was established. The municipal government closed schools, limited road traffic, halted outdoor construction, and paused factory manufacturing. At least 80 percent of China’s 367 cities with real-time air quality monitoring failed to meet national small-particle pollution standards during the first three quarters of 2015, according to a Greenpeace East Asia report. In December 2015, the Asian Development Bank approved a $300 million loan to help China address the capital region’s choking smog.