The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(05-31-2020, 01:38 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(05-30-2020, 10:16 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: You do realize that if you assign a description to everyone, that description becomes essentially useless?  

What would you know about integrity if you commonly describe those who disagree with you in ways which don't fit in the least?

I realize it but do you realize it? I ask because you describe us as racist and associate us with racism all the time. It's pretty much useless with us but that hasn't stopped you and others here from doing it. I assume that it's not useless with the minority voters on your side which is why you and others keep using it as much as you and others do.

You may not be the overt racist who prances around in a Klan robe or in a brown shirt with a swastika armband... but you are out of touch with the reality of racism in America. It still exists, and at times it erupts in unjustifiable brutality by bad cops. 

Quote:Socialism works for the Republicans because it fits and it's now supported by most of the Democrats because the Democrats understand that they can't win without the support of those who either want it/believe in it. Now, socialism may not be your cup of tea but your stuck with the term because the Democratic party is now open as far as socialism these days vs hiding it's association with it like it did for years.

Donald Trump is a big-government right-winger who has found that big government can enforce monopoly prices, mandate compliance with right-wing political memes, and supply opportunity for graft. We need to be careful about what government does. We need benign government more than we need big government. 

It may be ironic, but President Trump is by default one of the best arguments for constraining the role of government. "General welfare" is as far as government should go. 

...Let's analyze the slogan "Make America Great Again". Is this "greatness"? I can start with the states alphabetically... and Alabama has a monstrous heritage to live down. That isn't easy for Alabama.



Not even churches were safe in "Bombingham". Four black girls died there while changing their choir robes as a bomb set by fascist pigs ripped them to pieces.  

  

Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965: Selma, Alabama. I don't like to hear or see police called "pigs", but in this case they were:



Michael Donald, 19 -- lynched in 1981 by members of the United Klans of America. He was dead before he was hanged. Great, all right -- great evil. 

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I have my ideas of American greatness, and those often involve America stumbling into a dangerous situation and doing the right things. American greatness involves, for example, liberating Dachau and Mauthausen from the definitive white devils -- people not much different in ideology from the KKK.

America is great when it does great things due to goodness, competence, and heroism.