JakeStarkey
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wrycatcher, our family's hopes will go with yours for your nephew's safe return with his comrades.
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It may or not be isolated, for me it was very personal. I've thought of several ways to respond to your post mountainman and none seem sufficient. I think you're an asshole, and I guess that says it all.
The fact that a 12 year shot and killed himself has absolutely nothing to do with politics.
It was a tragic event that occurred completely outside of the realm of somebodies political persuasion.
If you think I'm an asshole for pointing that out, tough shit, I don't care.
I do believe you're an asshole, and I don't give a shit that you don't care.
Labor is greatly under appreciated and I'm always jibungled by how people like landscapers are looked down upon and paid horrible wages but if they all went on strike for a month we wouldn't recognize a single neighborhood. Iam not an economist but something is terribly wrong when citizens work 40-60 hours per week and struggle to eat and pay rent or mortgage.
What is it on the D Platform that keeps you in that register?
All politics are local. I know and have served on committees with elected officials of both stripes and their aides. The D's values are my values. I'm not suggesting that the R's values are much different, they're not, but their priorities are.
I think terms like "values" are a distraction. Methods determine the worth of any value and priorities are ordered by our actions. I've never been a D fan because there is an indescribable collective transference where it appears too many are in a contradictory contest to be the most socially aware but quietly tapping the bank. Ie. Housing Projects. Those were presented as a way of helping people but really all they have been are prisons with individually selected curtains.
...I share a belief that a fetus is a human being that deserves protection under our legal system, I hold several others views that are not consistent with what is traditionally considered "conservative."
Given the very unlikely opportunity, I'd vote to repeal the second amendment.
I'd vote against the death penalty.
I'd vote to allow gay couples to exercise every right and priviledge that straight couples enjoy.
I'd vote against any government-sactioned expression of religion.
I'd vote to provide a reasonable path to citizenship for illegal aliens as long as it provided a penalty for breaking the law in the first place that wasn't so harsh that it would keep these people underground.
I'd vote to take reasonable steps to reduce carbon emissions.