Posted on 09/13/2019 8:02:23 AM PDT by Liberty7732
I was talking to an acquaintance yesterday who is a lifelong Democrat. He’s having real problems with the Democratic Party. It sounds more and more foreign to the party he’s always been a part of. I told him there is an alternative party and smiled.
He actually was open to the idea when he never, ever thought he would be. I was truly surprised. He’s clearly not a Trump fan, but the Democrats are not sounding like his party anymore and he thinks the Trump hysteria is overblown. I don’t know how widespread this is, but looking at the debate last night, possibly more than is realized — and more than will be captured in polls where people supporting Trump are not as likely to admit it as others.
Last night’s debate gives us insights as to why my acquaintance is considering what, for him, is a pretty drastic step.
Joe Biden, the frontrunner, is more than a gaffe machine, as everyone says. His mental capacities are waning as is his stamina. So at one point he said he wants social workers to come into your home to help you raise your kids, and turn on the radio, um, TV, um no, phones, no, listen to record players, “to hear words.” Literally play records and hear words. What the what? Nobody could figure what he was bungling towards. Research shows that when parents read to their kids and listen to classical music, the kids do better in school. Is that what Biden was trying to say? Unclear.
If so, that was badly mangled, and that is a constant. He keeps calling Bernie Sanders the President. He wants you to dial Joe 0101.com or something. He really doesn’t know. Actually, the list is long and expanding daily. It is clear that his mental capacities, never his strength, are diminishing. If you are a Democrat, you’d have to be very worried about him as your standard-bearer a year from now. If you are just an American, you’d be even more fearful of him as President.
My acquaintance cringes at Trump, agrees with some policies and really not some policies, but he agrees with fewer of Biden’s as the candidate moves leftward. Can he even trust that Biden will be capable to hold the office in January 2021?
More from the debate.
Elizabeth Warren wants to spend more and more of your money every debate. (Now it’s a $200 increase for Social Security beneficiaries.) This is just brazen vote-buying with your tax dollars. Her budget-busting Medicare For All plan is one signature move (along with free college and so many more giveaways of your money) but she refuses to answer the question on how she will pay for it except to wave the magic wand of rich people. Not enough, and she knows it and the media knows it. So even the Democrat media moderators pushed her on whether middle class taxes will go up. She refused to answer for the umpteenth time. They will. A lot. She is a tax and spend and tax more and spend more candidate. My friend is looking for fiscal responsibility, but getting the opposite in his party.
Bernie Sanders is like Warren, spending more and more of your money, but he’s a true believer somewhere between Socialist and Communist. (He’s also never had a real job except politics, but he did honeymoon in the Soviet Union — literally praising its glories. That sort of thing does not sit well with Democrats like my acquaintance.) He admits straight up that he will raise middle class taxes. Even with tax hikes, these programs will not be sustainable. He would be a wreck.
Beto O’Rourke wants to confiscate AR-15s and all the rest, and the crowd cheered wildly when he said it. Just the stupid Constitution written by white males stands in his way. He, along with others, say that we literally have a “white supremacist” in the White House. This line is akin to everyone to the right of center is a Nazi. It’s old, it’s a lie, and fewer and fewer outside the Democratic base and anti-Trump hysterics are buying it — even more so when Democrats wink and nod at actual, outright anti-semites and terrorist sympathizers in their party in Congress. My acquaintance is not at all onboard with this.
Pope Pete Buttigieg lectures Christians that if you don’t agree with his politics, your a bad Christian or not a Christian. The Bible is pretty clear that Christians aren’t supposed to do that. But then, he does this from a position of being married to a man and supporting abortion up to the second of birth, so he may not actually know what’s in the Bible, which will not stop him from virtue lecturing us.
Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Andrew Yang, Julian Castro and the pack are all in tune to some degree with radical, anti-liberty, giant spending programs that will drag the country downward. They are favoring de facto open borders. Their foreign policies will almost certainly allow for the creation of another Al-Qaeda (which happened under Democrat Bill Clinton) and ISIS (which happened under Democrat Barack Obama) while distancing ourselves from stalwart allies such as Israel. They will let China run rampant in Asia and steal our technologies and business, and maybe do another “restart” with Russia so Putin can take more land as he did under Obama but has not under Trump. More money may be sent to the Iranian Mullahs and they would cripple the U.S. with some version of the loony and disastrous Green New Deal.
The last, least insane candidate left is Sen. Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota, and even she says some pretty radical things (for the Democratic Party of 10 years ago.) She also has zero chance at being nominated. The media (major nominators) ignore her and the base probably wonders if she’s a secret Nazi white supremacist.
I understand my acquaintance’s misgivings. He’s far from alone. And it may matter a lot in 14 months.
Changing parties isn’t worth the effort. Just vote for the right guy in November.
The answer for social security is to take it out of the general budget, so they stop spending it, and pay back what they have spent- with interest.
Then give people the ability to opt out.
Newt Gingrich’s plan to let it “wither on the vine” was actually the best plan. If you think he only meant to let it die and starve old folks who need it then you are too stupid to vote anyway.
It’s really the leftwing Communist Party (incl GOP-E) vs the Constitutional Patriots.
As Reagan said (I think): “I didn’t leave the party, the party left me”
A socialist is merely a communist who hasn't started killing...YET.
Some time around 2022, the Rino’s and establishment Democrats will pull the trigger and actually form a new political party, the Democrats will get too frustrated by socialists crowding out primaries and losing winnable seats, and the out of power republicans will also want some authority and control again.
It will 98% be the democrat party platform, but the squish republicans will have cover to say it isn’t so they feel better about it.
I have a friend who is the son of a university professor and has always been a blue dog democrat. He is actually intelligent but does believe all the BS that the Democrats spew.
He is utterly disappointed with the candidates and feels like they are sellouts to big business. He would vote for Bernie if he got the nomination, but he sees the handwriting on the wall.
Also, he is happy about prison reform and his wife is a legal immigrant, and they had to work really hard to get citizenship for her.
He has shared with me that he will be voting for Trump for the second time in 2020. (He voted for him last time because he literally HATES Hillary, and was disgusted about the treatment of Bernie. This was the first time in his life (he is in his 60’s) that he has voted other than Democrat.
Your “answer” for Social Security is not an answer because its what already is done. By law, revenue from all sources goes into the general fund; there is no real alternative, because the Federal government has nowhere to “invest” Social Security revenue.
“Changing parties isn’t worth the effort. Just vote for the right guy in November.”
it’s an even bigger psychological leap to change parties after a lifetime of being in one than changing ones voting habits ... it’s often a few years after switching voting to switching parties, but once it’s done the first time, then switching doesn’t mean squat ...
right now, I’m unaffiliated, which in Colorado, means i can pick a party to vote for each time in a primary ... naturally, i’ll choose to vote in the Dem primary and pick the candidate most likely to win the primary but at the same time lose in the general election ... at any time, if prudent for some reason, i can always switch to Republican ... in Colorado switching parties can be done onine and takes just a minute or two ....
The huge “walk away” movement is the place where hundreds of thousands have done just that - walked away from the Demonrat party....to the Republican party and to President Trump.
https://www.walkawaycampaign.com/
Commie RAT Party; the gift that keeps giving!
Declassified - The Epoch Times
Beto O’Rourke: ‘Hell Yes We’re Gonna Take Your AR-15, Your AK-47’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmnjwRQdz4M&feature=em-uploademail
Biden Clashes With Sanders and Warren Over Medicare for All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fignkk8hjjg&feature=em-uploademail
Of course today's liberals are far to the left of the liberals of FDR's time.
Biden is demonstrating the dangers of virtue signaling while senile!
Au contraire! No one should miss the changing Party ceremony held at the corner of 1st and Main, the 3rd Tuesday of each month at midnight; where the new inductees take their blood oath wearing nothing but their best birthday suit.
I am also unaffiliated voter.
I can’t begin to explain how exhilarating it was for me when I went in and switched my voter registration. It was only more so when I voted the first time as such.
This was after almost 40 years as a card carrying Republican who did volunteer work for a number of General Elections.
I can’t vote in Republicrat or Demican primaries having registered thusly, but it doesn’t matter to me who they nominate.
I actually came out of voter retirement to vote for Mr. Trump, an anti establishment candidate in my view.
I knew at the time that he would find “draining the swamp” much more a daunting task, and unfortunately have been proved correct.
Am in my mid 70’s so I won’t be around many more General Elections.
I will, if around, vote for Mr. Trump again in 2020 knowing full well, unfortunately, that his Presidency will have only acted as a speed bump towards the demise of our Republic.
It's just more infiltration by the enemy...
“I will, if around, vote for Mr. Trump again in 2020 knowing full well, unfortunately, that his Presidency will have only acted as a speed bump towards the demise of our Republic.”
unfortunately, you are correct ...
A Communist is a Socialist with a gun...
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