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Will Trump be Re-elected?

Trump is more effective than people are willing to admit [ala Scott Adams] and will be re-elected.
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Hillary will run again in 2020, and thus Trump will beat her again.
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Trump will cause the GOP to lose one or both houses of congress in the mid-term elections.
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The Dems in congress will be so insufferable, Trumps wins by a small margin despite them.
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Trump will choose not to run for re-election, since he never really wanted the job anyway.
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Trump is a disaster and will lose by a landslide.
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Trump will not only lose, but will lose to a candidate so far to the left that people will wish he'd stayed.
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Other, please elaborate.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by vnatale » Sat Oct 26, 2019 6:43 pm

You asked. I'll answer. But I will NOT be brief.

When I was about 8 or 9 years old I read a book on the United States Presidents to that time. And, I decided that my three favorites were Jefferson, Lincoln, and Grant. Since they were all Republicans I decided I too was now a Republican. Many years later I found out that while Jefferson was called a Republican the parties later flip flopped so that he was really a Democrat. But I did not know that then.

This was truly an independent move on my part as I had no idea how my mother and father voted. In my 4th grade class that year (which was predominantly populated with Italian or Irish Roman Catholics (me being one of them)) myself and Nancy Johnson (who was referred to as being a "Holy Roller") were the only two in the 30+ class of kids who were NOT for Kennedy but, instead, for Nixon. How could I not be since I WAS a Republican. I just thought that all the other kids were for Kennedy because that was who their parents were for. This was in Rhode Island, then and now an extremely Democratic state. Plus an extremely Catholic one. And, with Kennedy being Catholic there was also that factor.

When 1964 rolled around, I was STILL a Republican and spent some time as a 13 year old passing out campaign literature for Goldwater.

By 1968, my senior year of high school, I was officially apathetic. I was later told that the night of the election was the night I saw Cream play for their last time ever (in Rhode Island). Their entire performance was them playing 2 songs for 45 minutes! I seem to remember the two songs as being Toad and Spoonful.

A year later I was a freshman in college and at the beginning of the year started reading underground newspapers and marched in the one of the innumerable anti Viet Nam War marches. I'd say that time period was the turning point of me NOT being a political conservative. That school year culminated in being arrested for protesting the draft the week after Kent State, which at the time set the record for the largest mass arrest ever in U.S. history. But that was soon eclipsed many times.

I cast my first vote ever in 1972, voting for McGovern. Next year I moved to Massachusetts, which had many cars with the bumper sticker - "Don't blame me. I'm from Massachusetts." -- in reference to Massachusetts being the ONLY state that Nixon did not win in 1972.

Since that first vote I have ALWAY voted for the Democratic presidential candidate. Always quite happily doing so and NEVER coming close to ever wanting to vote for the Republican presidential candidate.

However, For decades I was never straight Democrat. I used to use this as part of my email signature: "Another independent moderate who voted for a Republican, a Green/Rainbow, an Independent, and two Democrats in the November 2004 elections."

However, that all changed with the 2006 election. I have never voted for a Republican since that 2004 election. George Bush so damaged the Republican brand that I told myself that anyone who aligned his or herself with him by being in his party (and supporting him) would never get my vote.

So, while I have this pattern of Democratic voting, I have tons of conservative values.

Abortion - 100% against - none of the traditional exceptions (don't see philosophically how you can pick and choose if you really believe it is taking a life. My only exception would be if at the time of birth it was going to be a choice of the mother or the child's life.) In general, I've not seen any "anti"-abortion Republicans ever do anything that would cost them a single vote.

Fiscal - As an accountant I'm super conservative here. I live way below my income. I believe that if you are going to spend a certain amount you'd better be willing to tax enough to cover those expenses. Therefore no deficit.

Local government - I definitely believe that if it is your money you are spending it is spent more carefully. Right now there is going to be a vote on funding a new library in the town where I work. Just putting in round numbers - the state is willing to fund about half of the $20 million or so costs. I've not seen anyone NOT consider the state money as "free" money. And, conversely, I've not seen anyone consider it their money that went to that state, which the state taking some of it away, and then returning it in a lesser amount. I can guarantee the vote would be totally different if the town was looking upon taking on a $20 million expense (which they are really funding) rather than a $10 million expense.

Some of the other hot button issues?

Gays - Let everyone be who they want to be. It does not force me to be anyone I do not want to be.

Pro-life? I've already somewhat touched on this above regarding abortion. A friend and I have oftentimes discussed how we are both 100% pro-life. No abortions. Supporting people while they alive. And, not killing them in wars. Conversely we have Democrats having to be pro-abortion and Republicans not wanting to support mothers / families after the child is born and killing people in wars.

Immigrants - As the son of a father who came from Southern Italy (he could see Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius) and whose maternal grand parents also came from Southern Italy only an hour away from my father's village (Amalfi Coast), I am big-time pro-immigrant. How could I not be? But legally. Our country put in super restrictive immigration laws in 1920 (that lasted until 1965). I have no idea how my father's poor family was let in around 1927.

I'm 100% capitalist. I've worked with too many people in business who have earned what they have earned through hard work, putting in long hours. I don't believe it should be taken away from them to support those who don't want to work as hard or for as long.

However do believe in the progressive tax system.

Don't believe that there should be preferential capital gains. I'm going to make the same investments with or without preferential capital gains treatment. And, those of us who can get capital gains treatment are in the upper ends of our society. Why do we need the help?

When a woman stopped at my house last year when she was running for either state representative or senator and gave me a brochure of all she was going to do, my only question to her was, "Who is going to pay for this?" I'm for appropriate government but not one that gives free things to everyone.

I'm a big-time believer in personal responsibility. But helping those on the lower ends of society.

I can put the current Democratic candidates in these categories:

1) My favorites - Buttigieg, Yang, Gabbard, Klobuchar
2) Okay - Booker, Castro
3) Only if it came down to them or Trump - Warren, Harris, Rourke
4) ABSOLUTLEY NEVER - I've be voting for some third party candidate - Bernie, Biden

In sum, I'd say that I'm still an Independent that leans Democrat but is not enamored with them. The Republicans and all their policies and the way they present themselves are generally quite repulsive to me.

Trump is highly entertaining but he has no business being president. I've not yet determined his level of intelligence. He has to have had something to get where he has financially. However, he's repeatedly demonstrated that he has no interest in doing the job of being president. I cannot respect that. And, know that he is only following in the footsteps of George Bush, who while intelligent, just did not want to put in the time and effort needed to be president of this country. And, I still consider that Trump has not even come close to damaging this country (and the rest of the world) in the ways (primarily the Iraq War) that George Bush did. All the deaths and casualties for both those of Iraq and our citizens. And, the huge financial cost. I truly believe that all the wrong paths Trump has taken this country in can be reversed by the next president. Those deaths and casualties and money spent can never be reversed.

Vinny

MangoMan wrote:
Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:17 pm
I Shrugged wrote:
Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:07 pm
I'd be interested to hear others' opinions on the Dem voters' feelings about all of the wokeness, indignation against whites and men, and socialism.
So would I. I know there's not a whole lot of left wingers here, but if anyone even leaning in that direction could comment....Moda? Vinny?
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by WiseOne » Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:49 am

Vinny, yes thanks for sharing. I also have a few questions:

Is your dislike of the Republican party rooted mainly in the Middle East wars? That is quite understandable, but realize that Democrats were on the same page with both of these at the time. In fact, some of the most prominent pro-war "neocons" were Democrats. Are there other Republican party positions that you dislike, and which?

I think you're painting immigration with a very broad brush. There's very little similarity between the early 20th century immigration waves and what's happening now. Perhaps you can be a bit more specific about, for example, whether the "open-borders" politics of most Democratic candidates appeals to you? I'm genuinely curious about this, because most liberal voters I know are kind of the same way: they like immigration in the abstract and are quick to label any position that proposes to limit immigration in any way as "racist", but when it comes to the gates being thrown wide open at the southern border you start hearing some backpedaling.

I also can't quite reconcile "100% capitalist" with any of the Democratic candidates you mentioned. Yang is pushing for a UBI for example. Are you in favor of that? (Spoiler alert - I am, but it must be paired with a law limiting citizenship to children of citizens or permanent US (legal) residents, AND it must replace all current federal non-medical welfare programs including Social Security).
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by shekels » Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:51 am

vnatale wrote:
Sat Oct 26, 2019 6:43 pm
You asked. I'll answer. But I will NOT be brief.

When I was about 8 or 9 years old I read a book on the United States Presidents to that time. And, I decided that my three favorites were Jefferson, Lincoln, and Grant. Since they were all Republicans I decided I too was now a Republican. Many years later I found out that while Jefferson was called a Republican the parties later flip flopped so that he was really a Democrat. But I did not know that then.


MangoMan wrote:
Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:17 pm
I Shrugged wrote:
Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:07 pm
I'd be interested to hear others' opinions on the Dem voters' feelings about all of the wokeness, indignation against whites and men, and socialism.
So would I. I know there's not a whole lot of left wingers here, but if anyone even leaning in that direction could comment....Moda? Vinny?
I am not sure that is correct that the parties "flip flopped'
I have heard this statement before and in looking into it did not add up.
Now if it happened beginning in 1800's then maybe I missed something.

But from what I saw the switch was suppose to take place around 1960's.
With that I present Senator Robert Byrd, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan
The Democrat from West Virginia.
So what am I missing on the so called Flip?
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by vnatale » Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:59 am

I was giving the background of why I'm an independent who now votes almost exclusively Democrat but who does not consider myself a Democrat.

I've never prior seen the word "wokeness". Did not know if you'd mis-spelled some other word. But was surprised to see this definition for it:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... m=wokeness
Self-righteousness masquerading as enlightenment.

Not something that has struck me as being descriptive of any or all the Democratic candidates. Does this not at all describe Trump or any other current Republican incumbents?

You are going to have to give me specific examples of how specific Democratic candidates are demonstrating this.

I'm not seeing "indignation against whites and men" as being a constant, overriding theme.

And, I have already addressed socialism.

I do have Warren in my third category, which means that while she does not appeal to me at all, I don't totally detest her. That means she is just one above NEVER. But that still keeps her, on balance, as being superior to Trump.

I just cannot supports sloths as presidents (and I don't like here being pejorative towards a set of animals but I cannot think of a better description). Trump fits the Reagan, 2nd Bush tradition of wanting and having the office but refusing to put in the time necessary to fulfill the duties of the position. I have worked with so many other people in such lesser positions who have been far more dedicated to fulfilling the duties of their jobs than this trio of presidents have.

The fact that Warren became a law professor tells me that she is either brilliant and it required no work on her part to get there or she is no stranger to hard work and embraced the work necessary to fulfill her responsibilities / goals. In either case that makes her superior to Trump.

Vinny

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Sat Oct 26, 2019 10:47 pm
Vinny, thanks for sharing that story. Unfortunately, you did not answer the question:

opinions on the Dem voters' feelings about all of the wokeness, indignation against whites and men, and socialism.

Well, you did say you are a capitalist, but would prefer Warren to Trump? What about the wokeness and anti-white male attitudes?
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by vnatale » Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:36 am

My dislike of the Republican party is not rooted mainly in the Middle East wars.

I like to think that I make my decisions how I think (as a classic ISTJ (with nothing close on any of the four components)). But I have to also pay attention when I have intense feelings.

And, just about any time a Republican speaks (former Senators Tom Coburn and Ron Paul being rare exceptions) I have extreme negative emotional reactions.

I was quite upset when it was announced on Election night Bush was declared the winner over Gore. I knew it was going to be bad for our country as I'd read a book about Bush and it described his slothfulness as the Texas governor. But even I was not prepared for how bad he actually became. And, just about EVERY single Republican supported him in EVERY action (e.g., tax cuts, Iraq War). I'd say that is a strongest reason why I now detest the Republican brand.

On the night that Trump was announced as president. I'm forgetting was it 3 AM or 4 AM? After Trump spoke I remarked to my friend that I had none of these same feelings of dread that I'd had when I heard the prior Bush announcement. Instead, even though he was not my candidate I knew he was not a real Republican or even a politician so who knew how he would really be as a president. I just thought this would be an interesting presidency to observe. I was amazed at how calm I was feeling about the whole thing without all the usual intense negative emotions towards a Republican and what he / she has to say. Then, just after Trump's acceptance speech some typical, generic Republican senator (?) spoke. And, I got all worked up emotionally because he said just about every single typical Republican thing that evokes a negative reaction in me.

Are you aware that in the late 1800's Italians immigrated to the South where they were considered just a level above Blacks? And, they were considered so close to Blacks that there was this lynching?

"The March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings were the murders of eleven Italian Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial. It was the largest single mass lynching in U.S. history."

Therefore I'm sensitive to a certain brand of people being labeled sub-human and react negatively to Trump casting such wide dispersions as he does to those of other countries and who are generally non-white.

I did state above that I believe in legal immigration. And, I believe that Obama was aggressive in deporting many illegal immigrants. However, I do believe in a liberal legal immigrant policy.

Take a look at this graph;

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/program ... -Residents

1920 was the year the restrictive policy was passed. 430,000 that year.

Somehow it went to 850,000 the next year - 1921 (but still below the peak of 1,285,000 in 1907). I see my father and his family got in among the 335,000 in 1927, But I'm seeing he got in before the low of 23,000 in 1933. I also see that that last peak of 850,000 in 1921 was not exceeded until 68 years later in 1989.

I constantly watch C-Span. Therefore I'll see Yang speak for an hour. Even longer. Not just in the tiny snippets he's allowed in the debates. He fits one of my strong attractions for any candidate - being endowed with plenty of brain power. And, he moved me from one end to the other in his explanation of the universal basic income. He explained that by doing this it would do away with many governmental support programs and would lead to less overall expenditures in the long run. He said we are basically already spending the money.

Finally how is the Republicans (2nd Bush's tax cuts and Trump's tax cuts) stance towards the deficit explained? As I stated in my story, my basic is if you are approving expenditures then you must have tax rates that cover those expenditures. The ultimate logic of the Republican position is that we should have negative tax rates (which brings back to Yang!) as that would spur unbelievable economic activity! Instead, each tax cut seems to produce a deficit equal to that tax cut. Totally irresponsible!

Vinny
WiseOne wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:49 am
Vinny, yes thanks for sharing. I also have a few questions:

Is your dislike of the Republican party rooted mainly in the Middle East wars? That is quite understandable, but realize that Democrats were on the same page with both of these at the time. In fact, some of the most prominent pro-war "neocons" were Democrats. Are there other Republican party positions that you dislike, and which?

I think you're painting immigration with a very broad brush. There's very little similarity between the early 20th century immigration waves and what's happening now. Perhaps you can be a bit more specific about, for example, whether the "open-borders" politics of most Democratic candidates appeals to you? I'm genuinely curious about this, because most liberal voters I know are kind of the same way: they like immigration in the abstract and are quick to label any position that proposes to limit immigration in any way as "racist", but when it comes to the gates being thrown wide open at the southern border you start hearing some backpedaling.

I also can't quite reconcile "100% capitalist" with any of the Democratic candidates you mentioned. Yang is pushing for a UBI for example. Are you in favor of that? (Spoiler alert - I am, but it must be paired with a law limiting citizenship to children of citizens or permanent US (legal) residents, AND it must replace all current federal non-medical welfare programs including Social Security).
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by vnatale » Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:40 am

https://legal-dictionary.thefreediction ... ican+Party

Democratic-Republican Party
The Jeffersonian Republican party, better known as the Democratic-Republican Party, is an ancestor of the modern Democratic Party.


It was something like this that I later read that stated that while Jefferson was a Republican when elected that party was really what we would currently consider the Democratic party.


Vinny
shekels wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:51 am
vnatale wrote:
Sat Oct 26, 2019 6:43 pm
You asked. I'll answer. But I will NOT be brief.

When I was about 8 or 9 years old I read a book on the United States Presidents to that time. And, I decided that my three favorites were Jefferson, Lincoln, and Grant. Since they were all Republicans I decided I too was now a Republican. Many years later I found out that while Jefferson was called a Republican the parties later flip flopped so that he was really a Democrat. But I did not know that then.


MangoMan wrote:
Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:17 pm

So would I. I know there's not a whole lot of left wingers here, but if anyone even leaning in that direction could comment....Moda? Vinny?
I am not sure that is correct that the parties "flip flopped'
I have heard this statement before and in looking into it did not add up.
Now if it happened beginning in 1800's then maybe I missed something.

But from what I saw the switch was suppose to take place around 1960's.
With that I present Senator Robert Byrd, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan
The Democrat from West Virginia.
So what am I missing on the so called Flip?
Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by shekels » Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:30 pm

vnatale wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:40 am
https://legal-dictionary.thefreediction ... ican+Party

Democratic-Republican Party
The Jeffersonian Republican party, better known as the Democratic-Republican Party, is an ancestor of the modern Democratic Party.


It was something like this that I later read that stated that while Jefferson was a Republican when elected that party was really what we would currently consider the Democratic party.


Vinny
shekels wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:51 am
vnatale wrote:
Sat Oct 26, 2019 6:43 pm
You asked. I'll answer. But I will NOT be brief.

When I was about 8 or 9 years old I read a book on the United States Presidents to that time. And, I decided that my three favorites were Jefferson, Lincoln, and Grant. Since they were all Republicans I decided I too was now a Republican. Many years later I found out that while Jefferson was called a Republican the parties later flip flopped so that he was really a Democrat. But I did not know that then.



I am not sure that is correct that the parties "flip flopped'
I have heard this statement before and in looking into it did not add up.
Now if it happened beginning in 1800's then maybe I missed something.

But from what I saw the switch was suppose to take place around 1960's.
With that I present Senator Robert Byrd, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan
The Democrat from West Virginia.
So what am I missing on the so called Flip?
Thanks
I see: ::) I guess we know why there are differing opinions. and the Flip has been propagated.
The Democratic-Republican Party (also known as the Republican Party and various other names)[a] was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrati ... ican_Party

Here is an example of what I saw.
https://www.prageru.com/video/why-did-t ... epublican/
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by Xan » Sun Oct 27, 2019 3:33 pm

In no sense was Thomas Jefferson a member of the Republican party.

We could have all sorts of debates, I suppose, on how to map late 18th/early 19th century politics onto our current two parties, but I'm not sure that would be productive.

Jefferson's Democratic-Republican party (I've never heard of it called Republican before in my life) was in opposition to the Federalists, who in general wanted as much of American life as possible to be dictated by the new federal government. The Democratic-Republicans stood against that. The Federalists wrote the Constitution, establishing a strong central government, and the Democratic-Republicans insisted on moderating it by adding the Bill of Rights, particularly the 9th and 10th amendments. That party directly became the modern Democratic party, and it is the oldest political party in the world.

The Republican party was founded in the 1850s with the goal of using the federal government to build improvements such as railroads in (favored) states, and to impose moral opinions held by the federal government on the states. Jefferson was long dead when this party was founded. For some reason this party is called the "Grand Old Party" even though its nemesis is much older.

It seems to me there certainly has been a "flip" between then and now, but of course it isn't 100% clean. We can't say for sure what Jefferson would be now if he were alive.
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by Kriegsspiel » Sun Oct 27, 2019 5:05 pm

Xan wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 3:33 pm
We can't say for sure what Jefferson would be now if he were alive.
Horrified, I'm sure ;D
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by jacksonm2 » Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:10 pm

I think he will probably be re-elected if he can keep his head when all those around him are losing theirs and blaming it on him (re: Kipling).

Not necessarily connected to Trump's re-election but I thought this was an excellent article about the juvenile state of partisan politics.....

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/ ... t-friends/
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by vnatale » Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:55 pm

If what you put there is true, then I have been under a serious misconception for decades and decades and decades. I just passed on all of this to someone who I am confident can tell me which of us is correct.

Vinny

shekels wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:30 pm
vnatale wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:40 am
https://legal-dictionary.thefreediction ... ican+Party

Democratic-Republican Party
The Jeffersonian Republican party, better known as the Democratic-Republican Party, is an ancestor of the modern Democratic Party.


It was something like this that I later read that stated that while Jefferson was a Republican when elected that party was really what we would currently consider the Democratic party.


Vinny
shekels wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:51 am


I am not sure that is correct that the parties "flip flopped'
I have heard this statement before and in looking into it did not add up.
Now if it happened beginning in 1800's then maybe I missed something.

But from what I saw the switch was suppose to take place around 1960's.
With that I present Senator Robert Byrd, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan
The Democrat from West Virginia.
So what am I missing on the so called Flip?
Thanks
I see: ::) I guess we know why there are differing opinions. and the Flip has been propagated.
The Democratic-Republican Party (also known as the Republican Party and various other names)[a] was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrati ... ican_Party

Here is an example of what I saw.
https://www.prageru.com/video/why-did-t ... epublican/
Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by shekels » Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:51 am

Granted Wikipedia is not the most reliable source.
I suppose in the grand scheme of things it is not important, but I just found it curious that you mentioned the Flip.
What has happened, is the country has changed over the decades and the beliefs/ makeup of the people have changed.

So the Dem/Rep parties have changed over the years.
It seems that the party of Kennedy is not the same party of today.

I just am Thankful for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.






vnatale wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:55 pm
If what you put there is true, then I have been under a serious misconception for decades and decades and decades. I just passed on all of this to someone who I am confident can tell me which of us is correct.

Vinny

shekels wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:30 pm
vnatale wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:40 am
https://legal-dictionary.thefreediction ... ican+Party

Democratic-Republican Party
The Jeffersonian Republican party, better known as the Democratic-Republican Party, is an ancestor of the modern Democratic Party.


It was something like this that I later read that stated that while Jefferson was a Republican when elected that party was really what we would currently consider the Democratic party.


Vinny

Thanks
I see: ::) I guess we know why there are differing opinions. and the Flip has been propagated.
The Democratic-Republican Party (also known as the Republican Party and various other names)[a] was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrati ... ican_Party

Here is an example of what I saw.
https://www.prageru.com/video/why-did-t ... epublican/
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re: Will Trump be Re-elected?

Post by moda0306 » Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:00 am

shekels wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:51 am
Granted Wikipedia is not the most reliable source.
I suppose in the grand scheme of things it is not important, but I just found it curious that you mentioned the Flip.
What has happened, is the country has changed over the decades and the beliefs/ makeup of the people have changed.

So the Dem/Rep parties have changed over the years.
It seems that the party of Kennedy is not the same party of today.

I just am Thankful for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.






vnatale wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:55 pm
If what you put there is true, then I have been under a serious misconception for decades and decades and decades. I just passed on all of this to someone who I am confident can tell me which of us is correct.

Vinny

shekels wrote:
Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:30 pm

Thanks
I see: ::) I guess we know why there are differing opinions. and the Flip has been propagated.
The Democratic-Republican Party (also known as the Republican Party and various other names)[a] was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrati ... ican_Party

Here is an example of what I saw.
https://www.prageru.com/video/why-did-t ... epublican/
Funny you mention Kennedy... I heard a clip today of him praising European socialized healthcare and saying we should be doing something similar in the U.S.
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Post by shekels » Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:07 am

moda0306 wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:00 am
shekels wrote:
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Granted Wikipedia is not the most reliable source.
I suppose in the grand scheme of things it is not important, but I just found it curious that you mentioned the Flip.
What has happened, is the country has changed over the decades and the beliefs/ makeup of the people have changed.

So the Dem/Rep parties have changed over the years.
It seems that the party of Kennedy is not the same party of today.

I just am Thankful for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.






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If what you put there is true, then I have been under a serious misconception for decades and decades and decades. I just passed on all of this to someone who I am confident can tell me which of us is correct.

Vinny


Funny you mention Kennedy... I heard a clip today of him praising European socialized healthcare and saying we should be doing something similar in the U.S.
Did Kennedy say how it was going to be Paid for, or just use MMT/ Medicare for all? ;)
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Post by moda0306 » Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:38 am

shekels wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:07 am
moda0306 wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:00 am
shekels wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:51 am
Granted Wikipedia is not the most reliable source.
I suppose in the grand scheme of things it is not important, but I just found it curious that you mentioned the Flip.
What has happened, is the country has changed over the decades and the beliefs/ makeup of the people have changed.

So the Dem/Rep parties have changed over the years.
It seems that the party of Kennedy is not the same party of today.

I just am Thankful for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.







Funny you mention Kennedy... I heard a clip today of him praising European socialized healthcare and saying we should be doing something similar in the U.S.
Did Kennedy say how it was going to be Paid for, or just use MMT/ Medicare for all? ;)
No he didn't say how it'd be paid for, but he advocated for it. Which isn't fundamentally different than advocating for a massive perma-war surveillance state or any other idea without saying how they'd pay for it, which presidents & congress have been doing for years, so we're really not talking about anything new, including that both Kennedy and some modern dems believe in state-run universal coverage.
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Post by shekels » Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:02 pm

moda0306 wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:38 am
shekels wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:07 am
moda0306 wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:00 am


Funny you mention Kennedy... I heard a clip today of him praising European socialized healthcare and saying we should be doing something similar in the U.S.
Did Kennedy say how it was going to be Paid for, or just use MMT/ Medicare for all? ;)
No he didn't say how it'd be paid for, but he advocated for it. Which isn't fundamentally different than advocating for a massive perma-war surveillance state or any other idea without saying how they'd pay for it, which presidents & congress have been doing for years, so we're really not talking about anything new, including that both Kennedy and some modern dems believe in state-run universal coverage.
It does seem that way most Politicians are for spending Other People's Money, but hay there is more where that came from Right.
I would like to see them advocate to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity."

I think it may be more of a Medical Monopoly problem than an Insurance problem.
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Post by vnatale » Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:19 pm

Regarding your last line? What else do we purchase where we do not know until AFTER the service is provided? Keeping us all in the dark seriously limits shopping around for the best value.

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shekels wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:02 pm
moda0306 wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:38 am
shekels wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:07 am


Did Kennedy say how it was going to be Paid for, or just use MMT/ Medicare for all? ;)
No he didn't say how it'd be paid for, but he advocated for it. Which isn't fundamentally different than advocating for a massive perma-war surveillance state or any other idea without saying how they'd pay for it, which presidents & congress have been doing for years, so we're really not talking about anything new, including that both Kennedy and some modern dems believe in state-run universal coverage.
It does seem that way most Politicians are for spending Other People's Money, but hay there is more where that came from Right.
I would like to see them advocate to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity."

I think it may be more of a Medical Monopoly problem than an Insurance problem.
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vnatale wrote:
Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:19 pm
Regarding your last line? What else do we purchase where we do not know until AFTER the service is provided? Keeping us all in the dark seriously limits shopping around for the best value.

Vinny
First thing that came to mind are those bars, that I hate, that don't list the prices for their drinks.
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Post by vnatale » Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:59 pm

That's fairly much a different definition than the one that I found. However, since it is your word (which ( had never prior seen) we'll stick with your definition.

And, if it all that means: "Alert to injustice in society, especially racism", then I'd consider that an excellent value or trait to have. Of course anything taken to its extreme may not be a good thing. Perhaps that is what you are reacting to?

And, as far as hearing the Democratic candidates and what they have to say? 1) I generally do not see the debates live because live baseball games (and, even the post game shows) and, now, basketball games are always going to take precedent. I do try to later listen to them later online. 2) I'm generally going to be paying the most attention to my top four (Yang, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Gabbard) and less attention to those in the next three categories. 3) Are my top four guilty of what you say? For the most part I think I have only heard Gabbard during the debates. The other three I've either heard frequently on the five Sunday news shows or in a long, long segment on C-Span. 4) I'd have to say the Harris and Warren are in the my third category and Bernie my fourth for probably many of the same reason that you (and others here) do not like them. For me, it's mainly financial with them. Give. Give. Give!

Regarding your last sentence: " It is so pervasive in job hiring, college admissions, etc, that merit takes a back seat to identity politics the majority of the time these days." You are making a universal statement for the entire country? Or, in what the Democrats are saying? I assume it is the former?

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That's not a very good definition of 'woke'. This is more accurate:
Alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/woke
And so no, this does not describe Trump or any other Republicans I am aware of. It does, however describe many of the far left and even middle left politicians in the Democratic party, much of the media including late night talk show hosts and even many (sadly) ESPN correspondants, and all kinds of activists. As far as the Dem candidates, they display woke behavior on a regular basis when they call Trump a racist for all sorts of things that are nothing of the kind.

And OMG, how can you have missed the negativity toward white males? It is so pervasive in job hiring, college admissions, etc, that merit takes a back seat to identity politics the majority of the time these days.

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I was giving the background of why I'm an independent who now votes almost exclusively Democrat but who does not consider myself a Democrat.

I've never prior seen the word "wokeness". Did not know if you'd mis-spelled some other word. But was surprised to see this definition for it:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... m=wokeness
Self-righteousness masquerading as enlightenment.

Not something that has struck me as being descriptive of any or all the Democratic candidates. Does this not at all describe Trump or any other current Republican incumbents?

You are going to have to give me specific examples of how specific Democratic candidates are demonstrating this.

I'm not seeing "indignation against whites and men" as being a constant, overriding theme.

And, I have already addressed socialism.

I do have Warren in my third category, which means that while she does not appeal to me at all, I don't totally detest her. That means she is just one above NEVER. But that still keeps her, on balance, as being superior to Trump.

I just cannot supports sloths as presidents (and I don't like here being pejorative towards a set of animals but I cannot think of a better description). Trump fits the Reagan, 2nd Bush tradition of wanting and having the office but refusing to put in the time necessary to fulfill the duties of the position. I have worked with so many other people in such lesser positions who have been far more dedicated to fulfilling the duties of their jobs than this trio of presidents have.

The fact that Warren became a law professor tells me that she is either brilliant and it required no work on her part to get there or she is no stranger to hard work and embraced the work necessary to fulfill her responsibilities / goals. In either case that makes her superior to Trump.

Vinny

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Vinny, thanks for sharing that story. Unfortunately, you did not answer the question:

opinions on the Dem voters' feelings about all of the wokeness, indignation against whites and men, and socialism.

Well, you did say you are a capitalist, but would prefer Warren to Trump? What about the wokeness and anti-white male attitudes?
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Post by I Shrugged » Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:22 pm

Essentially, woke = social justice warrior.
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Post by I Shrugged » Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:25 pm

Another flip.
The Dems are the party of big business.
The GOP are the party of blue collar workers.
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Post by dualstow » Tue Oct 29, 2019 7:20 am

@vinny: woke was originally used by social justice warriors to describe themselves. It comes from a song or poem.

Now, however, it is increasingly used derisively and sarcastically by people (including me O0 ) who are critical of the perceived overreach of those SJWs, so both definitions apply. If you want to get a feel for wokeness, skim some of the thread, ‘The Left is Eating Itself.’
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Post by Cortopassi » Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:50 pm

I had a short discussion with my Dad (87) lifelong Democrat, until Obama/Trump. Impossible to say anything bad about Trump around him. All a witch hunt. Fox News is doing its job for sure.

I see Trump yesterday belittle everything about Chicago while in Chicago. Now, Chicago isn't perfect by any stretch but this encapsulates why I despise the guy at times. There is not a shred of compassion or decency in the guy. Zero. You want to vote for him again because he's doing some other things the way you want, go right ahead. I can't stand him anymore. All about him, 24 hours a freakin day.

What did he take about an hour taking credit for Baghdadi as well? Everyone else sucks. Now he wants negative interest rates too. Wish my Dad could understand what that means, being invested only in CDs.

Now you have lifelong well respected military guy on the phone call testifying. Of course, now he's a Never Trumper, and being cut down. Ruthless. Can't wait to see what he says about Bolton when he's up there. At some point I would hope the republicans figure this out. All running scared. Say anything bad, he will destroy your career.

Is this not a Mussolini fascist dictator type attitude??

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Sure, I have TDS bad.
Sounds like stage 4. I hope you recover soon.
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Post by shekels » Tue Oct 29, 2019 3:46 pm

Libertarian666 wrote:
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Sure, I have TDS bad.
Sounds like stage 4. I hope you recover soon.
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