Am I the only one that doesn't like anyone that makes their politics their identity?

[Floyd Eye]

Just to add-
I asked her once if she wanted to go to the range with me and do some shooting, so that when she is bandying about with her big fat opinions, she would have at least have SOME idea of what she is talking about (she has never fired a gun in her life).
She declined. She came to America as a child, from Scotland where guns are not really a thing. Her parents never owned any as far as I know. Her father was a Knight Templar and her family was heavily into freemasonry so I don’t know if that was any influence?
The mass/school shootings really get her wound up, and of course she blames the gun and not the person pulling the trigger.

I have a difficult time being around vocally anti-gun people.

I have a difficult time being around people period.

 

[84superchamp]

That's why group 1 is an endangered species now. They're all becoming Republicans ala RFK/Tulsi.

There used to be another group, the socially conservative fiscally left labor/trade/union "blue dog" type of democrat, and is where my background is. These are literally extinct on the left - they all are maga now.

Trump moved the GOP to the center on a ton of issues and it's a good thing he did, because otherwise there wouldn't be any political muscle to fight against this far left insanity that's going on.

You remember the religious right of the 80s and 90s? How crazy they sounded to the normal people? "Video games and DND turn your children into satanists"

The Democrats I guess are going through their own version of that.




Honestly the politicians deserve their own category, because we have no idea if they actually believe any of the retarded shit they say.

I especially imagine this is the case with the boomer Dems. I seriously can't tell if they are sincere or just playing a part sometimes.

I cannot imagine being 70 or 80 and being that dumb and naive - most people that age that I know in real life have a lot of worldly wisdom.

It makes me think they have some higher master they answer to

I belonged to that other group when I worked for a living, when the dems supported unions (USW here) but the fracture started with Clinton's NAFTA, a slap in the face for unions. I'm out of the union loop now, not sure who they support. Back then every election included lots of mailings from the union on who to vote for, I'll bet it a tough choice now.

 

[DanTravis62]

I belonged to that other group when I worked for a living, when the dems supported unions (USW here) but the fracture started with Clinton's NAFTA, a slap in the face for unions. I'm out of the union loop now, not sure who they support. Back then every election included lots of mailings from the union on who to vote for, I'll bet it a tough choice now.

100%. It started with NAFTA and ended, I think, with teamsters last year funding GOP candidates which is something I never thought I would see in my lifetime. My parents were absolutely gobsmacked when i showed them the head of the teamsters union on Tucker Carlson before the 2024 election.

The crazy part is that DJT made a calculated move to the center, and the left doesn't seem to understand that it's a losing strategy to keep going further and further left. If they want to be relevant, they need to take those chess pieces in the center back. But they aren't going to, it seems like.

It's funny how they don't seem to understand how silly they look pretending the emperor has no clothes. DJT is basically a protectionist version of a Clintonian democrat, let alone an "authoritarian." I mean, I guess you could say Clinton was "authoritarian" too because of Waco and Ruby Ridge.... but that's never an argument that they make. I wonder why?

I can't believe how crazy we've gotten from my childhood where Clinton was viewed as a "liberal" - and now I'm defending someone with very similar values and he's called hitler by 20% of the US. It's insane, and it makes no sense, and if any of the left wing people on the board had any sense they would realize how stupid it is too.

 

[84superchamp]

I had forgotten about that, Clinton's "handling" of Ruby Ridge and Waco. He sent in the heavy hitters and mopped up, and we can hear the outcry if Trump does the same thing in DC, Chicago or Portland. Selective memory on the left.

 

[Robostyle]

I had forgotten about that, Clinton's "handling" of Ruby Ridge and Waco. He sent in the heavy hitters and mopped up, and we can hear the outcry if Trump does the same thing in DC, Chicago or Portland. Selective memory on the left.

It’s not even close to the same thing though

 

[84superchamp]

It’s not even close to the same thing though

Yeah, Trump is doing "Clinton Lite" but they're screaming anyway.

 

[Robostyle]

Yeah, Trump is doing "Clinton Lite" but they're screaming anyway.

Trump isn’t killing families and burning children alive.
He is enforcing laws that were not enforced for decades.

 

[Floyd Eye]

I’m union. I know one co worker out of hundreds that votes democrat. Union leaders, including mine, still support them. Because it’s all about money. It’s the membership that has abandoned them. Because they realize democrats did the same thing they’ve done for blacks over the last 6 decades. Nothing.

 

[NoHassle]

 

[NoHassle]