OK, how do we want to do this.......
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LOL... That thought did cross my mind.
Knickslions
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It’s never stopped you before lol
I am ready to be gaslit from the Left. Bring it on, LOL.
The precedent was already set there. Giving people a chance to discuss. You know, come together despite our differences.
Most of the time the leftwing pols are gaslighting their constituents, not us.
Jokerman
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That's all they do. Who you responded to simply post smiley faces.
The funny thing is that I am a pretty much centrist person. Both extremes are obnoxious and, in my view, wrong. Trying to have a reasonable conversation with either side has become impossible. The loudmouths from either side feel the need to become louder and louder without ever listening. The 60% of rational Americans who are in the middle are stuck listening to the nut jobs on both the right and left…….really unfortunate.
I agree. The extremists on both sides are typically the loudest. But today's dynamic has changed that, and that's the existence of Trump. People truly viscerally hate the man for him existing (and winning of course). Heck, some even hate the people who voted for him. Now the 60% in the middle you cite is more like 40%, but instead of an even split of extremists a 30% each, the extremism on the left is skewed now. What was 20-60-20 is now more like 40-40-20.
Honestly, any objective review of the last decade would support it.
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With one side, it's tribal. It provides an identity. Virtue signaling, cognitive dissonance, and doubling down come with the territory. There's little in individual efforts, like charitable giving because, again, it's about the appearance of being more wise and caring.
IMHO
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I’ve been voting mostly Republican since Ronald Reagan. However, since Reagan, every Republican candidate for president was not good ( in my eyes), he was simply better than his opponent. The only candidate since Reagan that I actually liked was Ross Perot.
The problem we have now is that almost everyone in congress votes along strict party lines regardless of their personal beliefs on individual issues. This results in minority issues being approved simply because they are affiliated with a certain political party and we are all stuck with the resulting legislation.
A small minority of democrats support trans gender issues, but they are a part of the democratic platform.
A minority of Republicans support right to life issues yet Roe v Wade was effectively overturned.
There are too many instances where representatives in congress do not vote the way their constituents want, but rather the way their party dictates because they want their own minority issues to go forward.
The problem we have now is that almost everyone in congress votes along strict party lines regardless of their personal beliefs on individual issues. This results in minority issues being approved simply because they are affiliated with a certain political party and we are all stuck with the resulting legislation.
A small minority of democrats support trans gender issues, but they are a part of the democratic platform.
A minority of Republicans support right to life issues yet Roe v Wade was effectively overturned.
There are too many instances where representatives in congress do not vote the way their constituents want, but rather the way their party dictates because they want their own minority issues to go forward.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is a moderate democrat. Look what happened to her.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/04...ll-rep-al-green-immigrants-save-act-politics/
“There is a really profound demand in our country for an efficient government,” Gluesenkamp Perez began, before being interrupted with heckles that she was a “traitor.”
Just a few months ago, Democrats praised Gluesenkamp Perez for winning Washington’s formerly Republican 3rd Congressional District. Some called her the future of the Democratic Party as she bucked a national trend of liberals losing ground in the election cycle. Now, she’s trying to maintain support in Clark County’s largest city.
Earlier this month, Gluesenkamp Perez was one of just four Democrats to vote for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility or SAVE Act. It would require proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration. Critics say the bill could make it harder for some Americans to vote.
“Any idea that I am standing to disenfranchise people is patently false,” she said to the booing crowd.