I read as many of the comments as I can after Thom’s articles aa well as other authors on Substack, and learn from all of them. I am not the most knowledgeable political “expert “ by any stretch, but I am getting somewhat annoyed by the mantra of blaming the Dems for everything coming at us. The real cancer eating our country is and has …
I read as many of the comments as I can after Thom’s articles aa well as other authors on Substack, and learn from all of them. I am not the most knowledgeable political “expert “ by any stretch, but I am getting somewhat annoyed by the mantra of blaming the Dems for everything coming at us. The real cancer eating our country is and has always been the perverted version of conservatism, pushing policies since the all-knowing Repug god ronnie ray-gun. And since then the whole right wing media propaganda machine piling on blaming the Dems for everything have numbed and dumbed down people to the point that they can’t make a truly informed decision on candidates that will actually help make a difference for the betterment of our country. Granted there are some useless politicians on the Dem side , but then there are also spoiler chaos agents like Stein who serves her Putin purpose of drawing off votes and somehow gets gullible people to back her. I can’t understand how people vote Republican anymore- it’s not the Democrats who made threatening calls to a foreign country to find political BS on their rival, or used phony evidence (in which the witness was convicted of lying to the FBI)to justify trying to convict a sitting president and his family, sent armed insurrectionists to our capital on Jan 6 2021, defend rape, sexual assault and committing fraud in business dealings. So the majority of the responsibility for correcting our problems lie with the Republicans, and so far I don’t see too many stepping up to do the right thing because they believe in a perverse radical agenda that is not in line with the Constitution so I believe that they are the enemy.
I agree - Republicans have clearly become the enemy of democracy. Long gone are the days of constructive bipartisan governance. Nixon would never have resigned without bipartisan agreement on his criminal activity. Much greater criminality on Trump 1.0's part saw a Republican flag-waving embrace.
I have never been a D brand. Mostly I vote for them as the lesser of two evils, but there is a vast difference between R and D brands. The tactic of the sadistic narcissist is to use propaganda and extortion and intimidation to create massive distrust and antagonism amongst the masses, divide and conquer. The inherent weaknesses inside the Constitution, chief being the monarchy of a completely unchecked Supreme Court, or as I call it, the Extreme Sport of Injustice, is at the bottom of this trainwreck. There are many other gaping ethical and check and balance holes in the Constitution, and 50 years of destruction using those weaknesses has put us here, now.
@kathytankersley. I agree with every you have written and I find myself guilty of Dem- bashing when I am frustrated. Instead, I need to remind myself who the real enemies af the state are...
You are correct Kathy the real problem is conservatism, it started with Edmund Burke, then the Austrian school of Economics, then Ayn Rand, and politically William F Buckley Jr, and it's kid brother the John Birch Society, then Ronald Reagan.
But the Democratic party had/has a role in the empowerment of the right, and that role is that it drank/drinks for the same trough as the Republican party, it's leadership has been ineffective, unto absent.
The only concern has been the General elections, forsaken the local, county and state elections
And when real liberal minded populists like AOC show up, the leadership squeezes them out, ignores and tries to primary them..
Makes you wonder sometimes, whose side they are really on. Question is rhetorical: The Donors side.
I read as many of the comments as I can after Thom’s articles aa well as other authors on Substack, and learn from all of them. I am not the most knowledgeable political “expert “ by any stretch, but I am getting somewhat annoyed by the mantra of blaming the Dems for everything coming at us. The real cancer eating our country is and has always been the perverted version of conservatism, pushing policies since the all-knowing Repug god ronnie ray-gun. And since then the whole right wing media propaganda machine piling on blaming the Dems for everything have numbed and dumbed down people to the point that they can’t make a truly informed decision on candidates that will actually help make a difference for the betterment of our country. Granted there are some useless politicians on the Dem side , but then there are also spoiler chaos agents like Stein who serves her Putin purpose of drawing off votes and somehow gets gullible people to back her. I can’t understand how people vote Republican anymore- it’s not the Democrats who made threatening calls to a foreign country to find political BS on their rival, or used phony evidence (in which the witness was convicted of lying to the FBI)to justify trying to convict a sitting president and his family, sent armed insurrectionists to our capital on Jan 6 2021, defend rape, sexual assault and committing fraud in business dealings. So the majority of the responsibility for correcting our problems lie with the Republicans, and so far I don’t see too many stepping up to do the right thing because they believe in a perverse radical agenda that is not in line with the Constitution so I believe that they are the enemy.
I agree - Republicans have clearly become the enemy of democracy. Long gone are the days of constructive bipartisan governance. Nixon would never have resigned without bipartisan agreement on his criminal activity. Much greater criminality on Trump 1.0's part saw a Republican flag-waving embrace.
I have never been a D brand. Mostly I vote for them as the lesser of two evils, but there is a vast difference between R and D brands. The tactic of the sadistic narcissist is to use propaganda and extortion and intimidation to create massive distrust and antagonism amongst the masses, divide and conquer. The inherent weaknesses inside the Constitution, chief being the monarchy of a completely unchecked Supreme Court, or as I call it, the Extreme Sport of Injustice, is at the bottom of this trainwreck. There are many other gaping ethical and check and balance holes in the Constitution, and 50 years of destruction using those weaknesses has put us here, now.
@kathytankersley. I agree with every you have written and I find myself guilty of Dem- bashing when I am frustrated. Instead, I need to remind myself who the real enemies af the state are...
You are correct Kathy the real problem is conservatism, it started with Edmund Burke, then the Austrian school of Economics, then Ayn Rand, and politically William F Buckley Jr, and it's kid brother the John Birch Society, then Ronald Reagan.
But the Democratic party had/has a role in the empowerment of the right, and that role is that it drank/drinks for the same trough as the Republican party, it's leadership has been ineffective, unto absent.
The only concern has been the General elections, forsaken the local, county and state elections
And when real liberal minded populists like AOC show up, the leadership squeezes them out, ignores and tries to primary them..
Makes you wonder sometimes, whose side they are really on. Question is rhetorical: The Donors side.