In 2016, a Bernie Sanders sign stood in my front yard, and I didn’t support him because he was impersonating a Democrat. I had already disassociated myself from that party in 2004, finding Democrats perfectly pusillanimous in their opposition to neo-con Republicans. Too many prominent Democrats were making themselves saddle-sore riding the fence between hawkishness and pacifism — especially those relentless presidential aspirants, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Such temporizing allowed the neo-cons to have their way, disrupting the balance of power in the Middle East and introducing police-state precedents at home.
The main appeal for Sanders was an apparent willingness to buck the tide. From a distance, he seemed like an iconoclast. Closer up, he was prickly and condescending, but policy outweighs personality. Eventually, however, I realized that Sanders worshipped his own political icons, all of whom had espoused experiments in utopian economics that always failed miserably in practice. Rather than offering an alternative to career politicians, Sanders personified that entire class. Public office provided his only steady job.
Not that you need to be explained, but what it sounds like is you are expressing, is the thing that could save our country from the chaos that has taken us by storm.
There was a time, not too long ago, no matter your Party affiliation, we were all still proud Americans. Who could have imagined that any one of thoses Parties would openly and enthusiastically endorse the current riotous chaos that we are witnessing today. Nor would you even consider tearing down the most agnostic symbols of our great nation, or flagrantly disregard our laws or law enforcement.
Unfortunately, the Democrats have made the concerted, cynical strategic decision to associate the Party with Marxist/Anarchists in the hopes of gaining votes from their shrinking minority base. As this strategy plays out, the results and consequences are beginning to reveal themselves rapidly. They strike at the very foundational, political pillars that make our country an exceptional republic and the envy of the world.
The Democrat Party has been taken over by a small but influential group of extremists that do not have the best interests of our country in mind. They would seek to create a “Marxist Utopia”. And anyone that is even slightly politically astute knows what that leads to. They will never be assuaged and will turn on the Democrats just as soon as they feel they have the power to do so.
Hopefully, there are more and more real Democrats that will begin to see this and come to the same conclusion. This next election has more to do with our Country’s future as a true Democratic Republic than any other.
It isn’t about Trump vs Biden. It’s about preserving the very ethos of what the Founding Fathers envisioned for us as a Nation. A “more perfect union”, not an unattainable Utopian, Authoritarian myth.
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Not that you need to be explained, but what it sounds like is you are expressing, is the thing that could save our country from the chaos that has taken us by storm.
There was a time, not too long ago, no matter your Party affiliation, we were all still proud Americans. Who could have imagined that any one of thoses Parties would openly and enthusiastically endorse the current riotous chaos that we are witnessing today. Nor would you even consider tearing down the most agnostic symbols of our great nation, or flagrantly disregard our laws or law enforcement.
Unfortunately, the Democrats have made the concerted, cynical strategic decision to associate the Party with Marxist/Anarchists in the hopes of gaining votes from their shrinking minority base. As this strategy plays out, the results and consequences are beginning to reveal themselves rapidly. They strike at the very foundational, political pillars that make our country an exceptional republic and the envy of the world.
The Democrat Party has been taken over by a small but influential group of extremists that do not have the best interests of our country in mind. They would seek to create a “Marxist Utopia”. And anyone that is even slightly politically astute knows what that leads to. They will never be assuaged and will turn on the Democrats just as soon as they feel they have the power to do so.
Hopefully, there are more and more real Democrats that will begin to see this and come to the same conclusion. This next election has more to do with our Country’s future as a true Democratic Republic than any other.
It isn’t about Trump vs Biden. It’s about preserving the very ethos of what the Founding Fathers envisioned for us as a Nation. A “more perfect union”, not an unattainable Utopian, Authoritarian myth.
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