You’re welcome, Peter. There are people I respect in all parties, and there are people I don’t care for in all parties, including my own. I don’t ever want to lump any group, with a few exceptions like ISIS, together and make blanket statements about them, and I sure don’t want to make blanket statements about individuals.Thank you.
Turnout was overall lower in the 2014 midterms for example, compared to the 2012 presidential election, but check this out:
truthrevolt.org/news/medved-stupid-myths-about-turnout-demographics-and-gop-victory
Thank you, Sy.
I almost forgot for a moment about all the Dems who are trying to tell us whom to nominate (Trump).Kind of sad (if not entirely unexpected at this point) how you pin all the divisiveness on the GOP.
) According to one group's facebook page they're claiming over 1000 anti-Trump protesters are coming to Janesville, which has a police force of 120. It's going to be interesting.No Peter, I can’t “play” the race card because I know for instance some Republicans supported Ben Carson until they didn’t. And there are other Republicans such as Mia Love. Still something happened when Barack Obama was elected. It showed America had come far. I cried that night, tears of joy, to have been able to be alive to witness America electing its first African American President after all that had transpired in our nation’s history. Yet, even though he pretty much is in line with other Democrats, left of center and certainly not as far left as I would say Bernie is, his election sparked something in people, something which I have never been able to quite put my finger on. But it caused something to come to the forefront in people. As I said, something I’ve never quite seen so early in a Presidency. And while I personally don’t find Obama divisive, I’m sure others don’t find Trump divisive either. Brightest blessings for a most Happy Easter, Peter!Thank you, Sy.
Kind of sad (if not entirely unexpected at this point) how you pin all the divisiveness on the GOP.
I admit that some Republicans have had their share of divisiveness, but Obama has also been extremely divisive.
(Now you can play the race card.
There is a lot of name calling and innuendo from both sides. Would you ever suggest that I can’t possibly be a Democrat if I am really Catholic? There are some who have suggested that. Would you suggest I am a near murderer for the same reason?When the United States proudly elected and reelected Barack Obama, we took a positive giant-step in our evolution as a nation. Bolstered by the promise inherent in our progress, I believed, along with many others, in our ability to continue moving forward.
But, apparently, we are instead degenerating. We are dragging our knuckles and stooping to the shameful level of potentially electing Donald Trump: a serial liar, racist, narcissist, buffoon — with no experience whatsoever in public office.
Those are the first two paragraphs of Donald Trump’s Followers: A Blind Rebellion.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have to say Wow.
While I read the first paragraph I briefly entertained the hope that the propaganda about how electing Obama twice meant a “positive giant-step in our evolution as a nation” was, if not flat-out sarcasm, at least something the author planned to mitigate in the rest of the article.
That hope radically dimmed as I read paragraph after paragraph that made the GOP out to be savages unfit to share this land with the Democratic Party. Not to mention how he completely ignores the incredible amount of demagoguery that *Obama *has engaged in (and continues to engage in).
My question is: Is that the way *most *Dems see us Republicans? If so – and considering that we haven’t even nominated Trump, yet – then we’d better be prepared for an enormous amount of the same if and when the Clinton/Trump duopoly becomes a reality.uch:
I don’t see Obama as divisive within the Democratic Party, however, I do know Republicans can’t stand him. I do see Trump as dividing Republicans, but I agree with you, some of them don’t.
And to all here at CAF.I think you can be a good Democrat and a wonderful Catholic, and I’m sure you are a terrific Catholic. You show that in the high quality of your posts.
Thank you for the kind words. I have to give credit to my mom (who most likely is now in Purgatory and would appreciate any and all prayers).
Alright, I’ll trust that you’re telling the truth.
It’s just the usual way that Dems respond when I point out how divisive the President has been.As the saying goes, it takes two to tango,can’t fight with someone who refuses to fight, etc. Neither side is blameless in this discussion.Alright, I’ll trust that you’re telling the truth.
Neither is praising the “wonderful” work Planned Parenthood does for women – except for when it comes to abortion – “wonderful” things like distributing contraceptives to kids and testing for sexually transmitted infections, both of which contribute to the Culture of Death in which abortion has thrived.
Considering the number of Republicans who are “pro-life” – except, oddly enough, for when it comes to T____ – I wouldn’t suggest that at all. Happy Easter.
I think you hit the nail on the head: they’re both highly divisive, and they’ve both hurt the GOP greatly.
Do you see that as a Catholic attitude?
It could be as Catholics may see the present regime as harmful, with jobs being outsourced to India, with American factories closing down, with children being killed in one war after another, with partial birth abortions, with Hillary demanding that religious beliefs be changed, etc.