To the person "Interpol" who keeps referring to certain users on this board as racist trolls. I for one do not appreciate that. You know nothing about me.
When I first joined this MB, my first post was called Choices. In it I mentioned the possibility that Officer Wilson suffered a broken eye socket. My source WAS NOT a media site but an inside source which I cannot reveal to trolls such as yourself. But as soon as the article came out the next day I ran with it. My mistake...never cared for media anyway.
The CT scan of course could not be Wilsons....no one could have access to that but it could have been used just to show what that type of fracture may appear but fractures can be different not always the same.
If it comes out that Officer Wilson has no facial injury, I apologize to the world.
Take your name calling and stick it.
Now I remember why I quit these ridiculous message boards and social sites to begin with. TOO much drama!
How do I know that statement is not conjecture? Study every poll you come across on a political forum. The results always skew heavily in favor of where right-wing ideologues are on issues.
Could it be that most people are to your right?
You (collective) seem to think that your beliefs and politics are the center and anyone 2 steps to your right is insane. But who, really is center? Certainly not me. I realize that I'm 2 steps right of Rush Limbaugh.
So, just remember that when you see polls slanting to the right, others may see them slanting left.
In the real world, no, it could not be that most people are to my right. There are more to my left. Immigration was not an issue that frankly meant that much to me. It was brought to my attention by progressives. Women's contraception was not in my direct view until many women in my life who are on the left brought it to my attention. That our law enforcement deserves greater scrutiny of their practices and that many people of diverse backgrounds have specific stories of intimidation by the police is, again, something that never mattered to me because of my white privilege. Progressives brought that issue to light to me.
For about 30 or 40 good years after Roosevelt, what Nixon called the "Silent Majority" was that group of people who don't vote or follow politics, but whose thinking strayed towards the center-right.
In more recent times, it is clear that the silent majority is now center-left. It's the reason why Republican politicians have such a vested interest in making sure fewer people vote by eliminating voting machines or voting on Sundays or voting early.
In the real world, 75% of the American public does not want Social Security or Medicare to be cut. I want them to continue, but I do want to see cuts in areas that would not affect 95% of the public, but could save us real money over the long term. I think that's centrist.
The vast majority of the public now supports gay marriage. The shift on that issue has been dramatic in the last 15 years.
The majority of the public is for abortion rights.
80% of the American public wants to see taxes raised on the wealthy and super-wealthy.
75% of the country thinks our military budget is way too high.
On all the big matters, the silent majority in America is on the left now.
But if you were to ask polling questions on all these things on this site, the views would not be representative of the world we actually live in. They simply would reflect the deluge of a specific brand of know-nothing conservative ideology that floods political forums everywhere.
I would have been an Eisenhower Republican. Today, the Eisenhower family endorsed Barack Obama. Twice.
The right has moved much further to the right, while the far right seems to have moved into the crazy house. Of course, crazy people don't see themselves as crazy. To them, everyone who doesn't agree with them 110% are commies, which is a strawman the right is still having a big war with.
I want the military budget cut, but I've been supportive of the elimination of ISIS ever since Obama wanted to bomb Syria. I'm to the left on one thing and to the right on the other, the centrist that I am.
The right wants police budgets slashed but bad cops protected. I want to protect police jobs but overhaul how we train our officers and who we hire, because it has become clear with the events in Ferguson and St.Louis and New York the week before those that too many guys from high school who were assholes we knew wouldn't amount to much ended up becoming cops.