You don't hate America enough to understand that progress is burning the American flag and banning air conditioning.
I love America enough to know that the RIGHT to burn the American flag is essential to the liberties that true patriots hold dear. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been spent to ensure that right. And I will ferociously defend it.
What part of what he said is untrue?
How can anyone, who calls themselves socially liberal, in good conscience vote for a person who murdered a man that provided all of these socially liberal programs to his people, then has the nerve to go on national television to gloat and laugh about doing it? (I'm talking about Gaddafi if you're wondering)
How is that not antithetical to your views?
(And yes I'm looking for an actual answer, as I've never had a democrat explain this one to me before)
What part of what he said is untrue?
Not that defense spending shouldn't be cut to a reasonable level, National defense is a legitimate role of the US government. Wealth redistribution is not.
WTF?
Totally irrelevant to the discussion.
National defense is a legitimate role of the US government, but we've been well beyond "national defense" for years...possibly since WWII. I think war has become one of our leading exports. Our national defense budget is insane and dwarfs the rest of the world. You cut numbers of troops and cut money spent on war material, significant corporate profits tumble and unemployment soars. Follow the money. War is big business.
Some folks would rather have money spent as self-investment on our own citizenry, on education, health care, care of the disabled and mentally ill, etc. Some call it the welfare state; others call it investing at home. And that's why some vote Democrat.
National defense is a legitimate role of the US government, but we've been well beyond "national defense" for years...possibly since WWII. I think war has become one of our leading exports. Our national defense budget is insane and dwarfs the rest of the world. You cut numbers of troops and cut money spent on war material, significant corporate profits tumble and unemployment soars. Follow the money. War is big business.
Some folks would rather have money spent as self-investment on our own citizenry, on education, health care, care of the disabled and mentally ill, etc. Some call it the welfare state; others call it investing at home. And that's why some vote Democrat.
It's pretty relevant for understanding why anyone votes democrat.
You're absolutely right, which is why we should stop spending our money and resources protecting Europe. We have people in our own country who needs help first.
While I don't want to vote for HRC, the only claim The Donald has for office is his business dealings.. I will not vote for him unless he releases his tax returns.
Of course you should have the right to do that and I defend it.
I'm merely stating what dems are pushing as "progress" in this country. There was a time that dems loved this country, pledged allegiance to our flag without a single reservation, and asked what they could do for their country instead of asking what it can do for them. That time has come and gone, and it's time for them to be replaced with a party that doesn't have malicious aims towards America, our cultures, and our way of life.
Compare the rhetoric at the DNC to what was talked about at the RNC. Every other topic at the DNC was about how awful this country is and how awful republicans are.
The RNC talked about the future, how to improve things and how to overturn legislation that is damaging the country. Few and very far between were any real attacks on anyone.
Lets see the dems stand up for free speech and support overturning 501c3 and 501c4 restrictions if they truly believe in our values.
Do not think I believe Donald Trump is the last messiah, but at least he has his OWN skin in the game. Anything hillery has in the game is what she has already skinned off the taxpayers backs.
I think many of Trumps accomplishments were not directly from his own hand, but that he found the best and brightest to get things done, and fired those who did not. That is not a bad trait. It worked for Henry Ford. I think trump is at least trainable.
Hillery cannot be trained, as she just plain does not care what the citizens think. She already views us as subjects that must be controlled.
So, who is paying the $660B defense bill this year? That's $2200 for EVERY American...
Then you follow it up with this which leads me to believe you really don't care to understand, but just want to vent to the conservative echo chamber know as INGO:I have been pondering for quite awhile why a person would vote Democrat. I would really like to have an adult conversation of why someone would believe that the Democrats and their values are the right direction for America. Basically, give me your best sales pitch on leftist thinking...
And now I know you definitely don't care about someone's opinion that differs from your own:Out of curiosity, I watched as much as I could stand to of the DNC last night. I wanted to get an understanding of the left values and why someone would adopt that way of thinking. I think I lasted about 11 minutes before I turned it off and went to bed. All I heard was special interest group this and racial/gender group that. It was exhausting. No real coverage of the issues, just pandering to certain groups and the continued focus on invented cultural issues.
Pertaining to real policies, Democrats are going to continue to push the erosion of our rights, bad trade deals that put Americans out of work and now an attack on our law enforcement. Nothing I can get behind.
You really just want someone to validate your own belief that liberals are evil and dumb.So, what does a millennial do when they don't have the answer, GOOGLE it!
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Unfortunately, the article absolutely nails it and that is just the way it is. One just can't see eye-to-eye with everyone, I guess.
Tell me how much of his own "skin" he has in the game? To my knowledge what he has put into his own campaign has been loaned, to be paid back by his election committee.