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To me, the practical question here is: Is America worth saving? Or have you entirely given up on American exceptionalism?

It is not hope I've given up on, dear Sister, but on the republican establishment. I've always found it interesting that the early Christian writers, themselves Jews, referred to the leaders of the anti-Jesus movement as "the Jews." They knew what they meant....the establishment....and others had to put 2 and 2 together.

So, I don't trust Republicans. At other times I might call you republican, and most of this ping list also, and I am more than occasionally a supporter of republicans. But, there are times when the word is profanity.

I could call them RINO, but I sort of agree with Goldberg, that I just might be the one who actually is the republican in name only, because I sure don't fit with the establishment. Up is down and down is up, and the establishment calls the shots, makes the rules, spends the money, and sets the direction. They might just own the name and they can have it. Reagan, too, would have been the RINO in this sense.

I'm the conservative. They are the Republican.

And optimism nor pessimism is the issue, but honesty about what one sees. How does that old hymn go... "My hope is built on nothing less, than Jesus' blood and righteousness."