I do. We vote for presidents based not on intellect and wise decision making. We vote based on theatrics. Ronny was an actor and he used it well to communicate to the people. Remember Death Valley Days I think he narrated the show. But clearly, most if not all republican candidates support big business over the needs of the people. Then the democrats come in and keep wanting to spend on every god forsaken project inventable. There you have it. I am a democrat under protest.
I’d like to know what projects you object to: feeding hungry children, the Environmental Protection Agency, Head Start, rural electrification (this time with solar panels), Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, water quality, Covid vaccinations and tests, the CDC, the Consumer Protection Agency? Please let me know
Well… if I must. We had a democratic governor I forget which one who was able to use federal funds along with CT funding to build what we called the “bus Lane to no where.” It runs along the railroad tracks from Hartford to New Britain and creates a bus lane between primarily these two cities about 10 or so miles apart. Mind you, we already had street buses servicing these communities. But someone got a brainy idea to waste 7 billion dollars of mostly federal money just because it was available to build this virtually useless Lane. A republican would never have wasted such monies. More recently, Biden’s Build Back Better initive replaced adequate lighting poles along a stretch of local highway with huge huge posts and horizontal extenders. It was unnecessary. So these are two examples of many many wasteful projects that only democrats would spend on. Which is why unions heavily donate to mostly democratic candidates. Hello? Come on, remove the blinders. We do waste a lot. I know you heard of the bridge to no where but that one may have been a republican owned project.
Reagan won 59% of the popular vote in 84, virtually sweeping the electoral college. Any thought the persistent conservative trends were in reaction to call it the hippie counter culture waves of the 60s?
Probably everything reacts to everything else. Again I will take an unpopular stand, but the new Trans thing will be a deal breaker for democrats if our side insists on making in front and center. (Recall Biden’s “Trans Day” party on the White House lawn when a trans girl bared her thingies bouncing around as I recalled a drunken Jimmy Carter brother back yonder peeing in the rose bushes) As well as the perception that open border policy caused many blue cities a major human traffic jam. And let’s not forget European nations reacting against European Union lax immigration standards. Of course our side will accuse me of being anti immigration but I’m far from that. I’m for controlled immigration big difference .
Bill, I doubt the "trans thing" is new - just as the "gay thing" wasnt new when it "appeared"! Just because a different group of people have been recognized as existing doesnt mean they didnt exist when WE(straight white people)were unaware. I grew up in a NY village with no POC but I bet there were gays living there - very quietly!!!
And yeah - immigration sure does need to be controlled - regulated in a manner that allows people who truly need asylum - for whatever reason - can be at least protected from harm. This is a country - like most other countries that are made up of immigrants originally. Its shameful the treatment done by us - immigrants ourselves - to any new group that has come here. Irish, Italian, Chinese etc!!
Ok so I remove “new” but the point of bringing this up is that it can and will embolden republicans and magas to get out the vote. The whole idea of an electioneering is to revile the other side and weaken them. And I submit that there are some issues that don’t need to take front and center every day or else we will get in trouble again which democrats love to get into.
There is certainly political truth in what you say, but there is a greater truth you are perhaps leaving out. The Republican agenda at its base is an attempt to narrow the definition of both American and worse, fully human. The Democratic agenda, as chaotic as it often is, is at base an attempt to expand those two definitions.
I never could understand what Americans could see in Reagan, the "evil empire" guy, wiped out the controllers' union at the front of his term.
I do. We vote for presidents based not on intellect and wise decision making. We vote based on theatrics. Ronny was an actor and he used it well to communicate to the people. Remember Death Valley Days I think he narrated the show. But clearly, most if not all republican candidates support big business over the needs of the people. Then the democrats come in and keep wanting to spend on every god forsaken project inventable. There you have it. I am a democrat under protest.
I’d like to know what projects you object to: feeding hungry children, the Environmental Protection Agency, Head Start, rural electrification (this time with solar panels), Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, water quality, Covid vaccinations and tests, the CDC, the Consumer Protection Agency? Please let me know
Well… if I must. We had a democratic governor I forget which one who was able to use federal funds along with CT funding to build what we called the “bus Lane to no where.” It runs along the railroad tracks from Hartford to New Britain and creates a bus lane between primarily these two cities about 10 or so miles apart. Mind you, we already had street buses servicing these communities. But someone got a brainy idea to waste 7 billion dollars of mostly federal money just because it was available to build this virtually useless Lane. A republican would never have wasted such monies. More recently, Biden’s Build Back Better initive replaced adequate lighting poles along a stretch of local highway with huge huge posts and horizontal extenders. It was unnecessary. So these are two examples of many many wasteful projects that only democrats would spend on. Which is why unions heavily donate to mostly democratic candidates. Hello? Come on, remove the blinders. We do waste a lot. I know you heard of the bridge to no where but that one may have been a republican owned project.
Reagan won 59% of the popular vote in 84, virtually sweeping the electoral college. Any thought the persistent conservative trends were in reaction to call it the hippie counter culture waves of the 60s?
Probably everything reacts to everything else. Again I will take an unpopular stand, but the new Trans thing will be a deal breaker for democrats if our side insists on making in front and center. (Recall Biden’s “Trans Day” party on the White House lawn when a trans girl bared her thingies bouncing around as I recalled a drunken Jimmy Carter brother back yonder peeing in the rose bushes) As well as the perception that open border policy caused many blue cities a major human traffic jam. And let’s not forget European nations reacting against European Union lax immigration standards. Of course our side will accuse me of being anti immigration but I’m far from that. I’m for controlled immigration big difference .
Bill, I doubt the "trans thing" is new - just as the "gay thing" wasnt new when it "appeared"! Just because a different group of people have been recognized as existing doesnt mean they didnt exist when WE(straight white people)were unaware. I grew up in a NY village with no POC but I bet there were gays living there - very quietly!!!
And yeah - immigration sure does need to be controlled - regulated in a manner that allows people who truly need asylum - for whatever reason - can be at least protected from harm. This is a country - like most other countries that are made up of immigrants originally. Its shameful the treatment done by us - immigrants ourselves - to any new group that has come here. Irish, Italian, Chinese etc!!
Ok so I remove “new” but the point of bringing this up is that it can and will embolden republicans and magas to get out the vote. The whole idea of an electioneering is to revile the other side and weaken them. And I submit that there are some issues that don’t need to take front and center every day or else we will get in trouble again which democrats love to get into.
There is certainly political truth in what you say, but there is a greater truth you are perhaps leaving out. The Republican agenda at its base is an attempt to narrow the definition of both American and worse, fully human. The Democratic agenda, as chaotic as it often is, is at base an attempt to expand those two definitions.