Political Satire

Keep in mind that people tend to vote more conservatively as they get older, but even still this is encouraging!

 

My faculty advisor in graduate school had a framed needlepoint hanging on the wall behind her desk;
"I WILL NOT GROW MORE CONSERVATIVE WITH AGE".

 

I certainly did not become more conservative as I aged. Unfortunately I live in Ohio surrounded by Ridiots. It is rare that I vote for someone who wins.

 

I'm somewhat more conservative than I was in my 20s. I no longer want to overthrow the government and replace it with a communist one. I no longer celebrate when a cop gets killed. While I believe that polluters should be arrested, I no longer believe they should be executed. I support peaceful protest but I oppose riots. I was kinda radical then, now I'm more of a left-leaning moderate.

 

I tended to be pretty much middle of the road until 1980. Then in my job as an economist, working with income distribution among quintiles of the population, I watched in horror as the policies of RR stopped the decades long trend towards more equality in its tracks and began the pattern of making the wealthy wealthier….at the expense of everyone else…particularly the poor. And Republicans used every trick in the book to accelerate the concentration of wealth.

And everything they have done since including the pathetic Supreme Court nominations, gerrymandering, supporting DT, has raised my level of wanting more progressive government. Isn’t anyone else tired of prurient and ignorant ranting about “leftists and communists”? The ultra conservative, ultra wealthy are more of a threat to Americans than any “leftist” group ever was. In the words about a former Senator from my home state…and I’m old enough to remember McCarthy…”have you no shame?”

 

I agree 100 percent! The far right has been scrambling for decades to secure the continuation of minority rule, as the 2 senators from each state and the electoral college ensure that republicans have majority representation in congress, despite having only like 40 percent support. F'ing hate it, the majority of the population is progressive and wants to advance beyond the fucking NRA and mass shootings, and all of the other Qtrumplican bullshit. They have no platform. They want nothing except power.

 

Okay. And for good measure I'll text it to others and tell them not to share it.

 

And they wonder why we call them deplorables

 

So freaking grotesque

 

Deplorable, delirious, demented and deranged!

 

I forgot delusional!

 

Here in Oregon we're blue as they come, but when you get outside of Portland, Salem or Eugene and into the rural areas you'll see Trump signs all over.

 

Across America the split is actually rural versus urban. And unfortunately the people who seem to embrace the fascist ideology in some of these areas don’t like community, or taking care of disadvantaged people or democracy or science or education or …ad infinitum.

I know. I grew up in such a household with a continual barrage of racist ranting, hatred of anyone different. All his life problems were a result of people in Milwaukee and Madison. His dream was to build a house in the middle of 160 acres and intimidate anyone who came close with a batch of firearms. Never could figure that out.