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That's the problem, the Republican party can't get out of its own way.
The Religious right along with Red-neck Crazies have took over the place.
I said years ago, The Republican party should have distant itself from the Tea Party.
Here are my favorite quotes as of late:
"Obama is dividing us"
"The system is rigged"
Welcome to fricken 2016 far right
As Much as i don't like Obama's polices, lets keep it real, the division in U.S. has always been there. The media is making money off of rubbing it in people faces that have either, spent a life time trying to ignore it or trying to believe that it doesn't exist.
We "The Normal People" have been telling you clowns that the system is rigged for decades, Donald Trumps says it and all of the sudden you finally realized whats been going on
Every party has their extremes. The tea party is about less taxation and getting the government out of our business. Dems have the communists and Socialist who sing kumbaya and Republicans have the bible thumping, racist group.
The majority of the population is in the middle. Yet the parties rally around a few issues (abortion, religion, unions) and force us to pick the one that we agree with 51% of the time vs 49%.
Every party has their extremes. The tea party is about less taxation and getting the government out of our business. Dems have the communists and Socialist who sing kumbaya and Republicans have the bible thumping, racist group.
The majority of the population is in the middle. Yet the parties rally around a few issues (abortion, religion, unions) and force us to pick the one that we agree with 51% of the time vs 49%.
Agree that most Americans are centrist. I was crossing my fingers that Gary Johnson would qualify for the Presidential debates to provide another alternative, but it did not happen.
I really wish this election year gave us better candidates, as a Democrat myself, I can't stand Hillary and the Clinton corruption elitism that is basically no better than a Republican that gives corporate welfare to businesses that don't need it and cuts taxes for the rich.
The Clintons are corrupt, and have been for decades, the whole wikileaks just finally exposed it and is nothing new. The emails reveal who the "Real" Hillary is, but going back to the days when Bill was running things, they have so much baggage and are in the pockets of international heavyweights, that at the end of the day, the policies that will be introduced to supposedly help Americans, are truly just smoke screens to help continue the power and control of the world government that is really pulling the strings here.
I voted for Bernie and so wanted him to be the nominee and now with Clinton, nothing will change for the better of our nation if she becomes president. My fear is she will start another war somewhere just because her Saudi buddies tell her so.
It's very frustrating being a Democrat at this time, and not having better options in this presidential election year. Trump has serious personality issues, and isn't very bright or likable, but I like the fact that he isn't part any establishment that can control him. He basically will tell guys like George Soros, the Rockefellers, and the Rothschilds to Eff off if given the chance. These are the people that control policies in our nation, as they fund many big time political campaigns.
It's nice to see San Diego for once not being so Alabamaish. But on a whole, the county I feel is more moderate and will vote down many tax increase measures. We are not uber Liberal L.A. or Bay Area and we will probably never get to that extreme, but it's nice to hopefully see changes in local cities that have longtime been ultra conservative.
I feel like our long time local government leaders aren't representing the changes of what voters want and what the stats say. Take a look at our County board of supervisors. Only one of them is a Democrat, and the rest have been in office for more than 20 years! How is this possible?
No Latino, Asian or Black leaders on the board, only old White conservatives that don't represent or understand the cultural differences in diverse communities. So as San Diego grows more racially diverse, our government is not.
I seem to only post on here to quote you LOL. I agree with some of what you said. I am a democrat too but didn't vote for Bernie in the primaries. I swear as a millennial everyone was obsessed with Bernie except me. My problem with Bernie is his ideas were not realistic at all. He can't just wave his hand and change everything like education, healthcare etc. I don't think a lot millennials realize that. "Free college!" "Breaking up the big banks"! And "universal healthcare!" sound great but they don't happen over night. Plus he trashed the whole entire democratic party while running as president. If you want to get things passed as president you need to support the congressional candidates in the party your running with. Then he whined about the Democrats preferring Hillary over him. Obviously they are going to overwhelmingly support someone who has been part of their party for decades and doesn't trash them like Bernie did.
I voted for Hillary in the primaries and will on Tuesday. She is very pragmatic and realistic. She's right...A $15 minimum wage everywhere is not the answer. You can't raise it that much in rural places across the country. $12 outside cities and $15 in cities is far more realistic.
Wikileaks didn't prove anything. All those emails can be taken out of context because it is not clear what the whole conversations were about and we don't know what emails were edited to look bad which is totally possible. Also it should disturb you that other countries like Russia are interfering with our elections and hacking into private conversations. Most of her "scandals" and "corruption" are made up by Republicans. If you look into some of these things like Benghazi and the emails you will realize it really isn't the huge thing they make them out to be. I mean all these Republicans sat on their hands when Bush and Cheney lied to congress, The UN, and the American people about so called WMDs in Iraq. We were led into a costly and deadly war (plus Afghanistan) over lies. I'm so tired of millennials and people in general believing every meme they see on Facebook and thinking they know more the FBI without doing their own research.
Trump was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He's never been poor his whole life. His father gave him a "small loan of $1 million" to start up his businesses. Your average American does not have parents to give them 1 million dollar loans. Somehow he has managed to sucker a lot of poor whites into voting for him by scapegoating everyone from Muslims to Latinos. His supporters cry about everything being too PC but when you call them racist or bigots they act all offended. His rhetoric is dangerous too. Three men were arrested for plotting to blow up an apartment complex of Somali immigrants that had a Mosque in it in Kansas. Those men are right wing terrorists who aren't Muslim but are Christian and white!!
He has no room to talk about corruption or people being crooked when he is both of those things way more than Hillary. Trump University, possible Russian links, bribes paid to Florida AG to drop Trump U case, his foundation...the list goes on!
My point is both candidates are nowhere near the same and Hillary is nowhere near as corrupt as you and Republicans try to make her out to be.
I'm happy to see SD is becoming more democratic. I believe the county will go blue for the third straight time on Tuesday. I'm hoping Issa loses his seat too. It would be nice to see Hunter gone as well but knowing the voters in his district that isn't going to happen. I also do agree that city and county politics is too stuck in the past and needs to move forward.
That's the problem, the Republican party can't get out of its own way.
The Religious right along with Red-neck Crazies have took over the place.
I said years ago, The Republican party should have distant itself from the Tea Party.
Here are my favorite quotes as of late:
"Obama is dividing us"
"The system is rigged"
Welcome to fricken 2016 far right
As Much as i don't like Obama's polices, lets keep it real, the division in U.S. has always been there. The media is making money off of rubbing it in people faces that have either, spent a life time trying to ignore it or trying to believe that it doesn't exist.
We "The Normal People" have been telling you clowns that the system is rigged for decades, Donald Trumps says it and all of the sudden you finally realized whats been going on
It is interesting. The DNC supports Hillary with every crooked twist possible. The RNC does not support Trump. Both parties lean towards the ... humm, status quo as to power and corruption. While I do not support Trump his main appeal is that he is not obligated to anyone, bought by anyone nor is he a crooked Politician (Yes I know a redundancy). This is his greatest appeal. If the RNC supported him as the DNC does Hillary, he would be way behind. In Trump's case it is people supporting him, not a political machine that has been bought.
I seem to only post on here to quote you LOL. I agree with some of what you said. I am a democrat too but didn't vote for Bernie in the primaries. I swear as a millennial everyone was obsessed with Bernie except me. My problem with Bernie is his ideas were not realistic at all. He can't just wave his hand and change everything like education, healthcare etc. I don't think a lot millennials realize that. "Free college!" "Breaking up the big banks"! And "universal healthcare!" sound great but they don't happen over night. Plus he trashed the whole entire democratic party while running as president. If you want to get things passed as president you need to support the congressional candidates in the party your running with. Then he whined about the Democrats preferring Hillary over him. Obviously they are going to overwhelmingly support someone who has been part of their party for decades and doesn't trash them like Bernie did.
I voted for Hillary in the primaries and will on Tuesday. She is very pragmatic and realistic. She's right...A $15 minimum wage everywhere is not the answer. You can't raise it that much in rural places across the country. $12 outside cities and $15 in cities is far more realistic.
Wikileaks didn't prove anything. All those emails can be taken out of context because it is not clear what the whole conversations were about and we don't know what emails were edited to look bad which is totally possible. Also it should disturb you that other countries like Russia are interfering with our elections and hacking into private conversations. Most of her "scandals" and "corruption" are made up by Republicans. If you look into some of these things like Benghazi and the emails you will realize it really isn't the huge thing they make them out to be. I mean all these Republicans sat on their hands when Bush and Cheney lied to congress, The UN, and the American people about so called WMDs in Iraq. We were led into a costly and deadly war (plus Afghanistan) over lies. I'm so tired of millennials and people in general believing every meme they see on Facebook and thinking they know more the FBI without doing their own research.
Trump was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He's never been poor his whole life. His father gave him a "small loan of $1 million" to start up his businesses. Your average American does not have parents to give them 1 million dollar loans. Somehow he has managed to sucker a lot of poor whites into voting for him by scapegoating everyone from Muslims to Latinos. His supporters cry about everything being too PC but when you call them racist or bigots they act all offended. His rhetoric is dangerous too. Three men were arrested for plotting to blow up an apartment complex of Somali immigrants that had a Mosque in it in Kansas. Those men are right wing terrorists who aren't Muslim but are Christian and white!!
He has no room to talk about corruption or people being crooked when he is both of those things way more than Hillary. Trump University, possible Russian links, bribes paid to Florida AG to drop Trump U case, his foundation...the list goes on!
My point is both candidates are nowhere near the same and Hillary is nowhere near as corrupt as you and Republicans try to make her out to be.
I'm happy to see SD is becoming more democratic. I believe the county will go blue for the third straight time on Tuesday. I'm hoping Issa loses his seat too. It would be nice to see Hunter gone as well but knowing the voters in his district that isn't going to happen. I also do agree that city and county politics is too stuck in the past and needs to move forward.
Haha, for reals you do Lol. I don't want to get into a political tug-o-war with you as I want to keep the peace! I also don't feel like finding a bunch of online links right now to prove that Clinton is more heavily corrupt than we all think( Saying you are for gays and women's rights, when you financially profit and deal with a nation that murders gays, supports terrorism, and stones women to death is a bit hypocritical, don't ya think?) including the ease of our own government being able to hack the voting machines and rig it for Hillary which is exactly what will happen as world leaders and individual world controllers won't allow a Trump presidency, and there is also no proof that the Russians are in on it as well, so I will say this. I am not voting for Clinton although I am a moderate Dem, I probably will be independent next election. I honestly don't believe anything she says, and the BIGGEST reasons why, is because she is a lifelong politician. Lifelong politicians don't cater to the working people like you or me, the struggling class, or anyone for that matter, she only answers to her money backers, especially someone like her and Bill.
I here you on the terrorist stuff, but come on, really? That is one incident, but compared to how many hundreds of deadly muslim terrorist attacks that have occurred around the world this year, is a drop in the bucket dude. They were probably really pissed off Americans tired of seeing muslim terrorists destroying the world right before their eyes, and they had enough of it. These people are simply incompatible with our Western culture society, and there is no way of changing their minds as they live solely based on islam an ancient, restricted, and a barbaric religion based off killing everyone that is isn't islamic, not a peaceful democratic way of living life if you ask me. When was the last time you really heard of Christians grotesquely murdering thousands around the world recently and wants a caliphate and sharia type law implemented in every government in every country in this world? None.
And our government (Hillary) wants to immigrate thousands of these kinds of people into our country so they can take over and blow more things up? We are doomed if this happens.
This is why nothing ever really gets accomplished in DC and here in CA. If it does, it only benefits corporate interest, not necessarily the people...the high taxes is one of them one. You'd think the state of CA would help small business owners by slashing business taxes and other fees, but they don't. Why is that? My guess is because if they did, their corporate buddies would have major competition among smaller ones, and this would cut into their profits and influence in the market place. Take a look at any new major commercial real estate development that is built in SD County recently. Do ever see mom and pops in one of those lease spaces? 95% of the time you don't, it's all built for corporate establishments to house like a Starbucks or Subway that can afford the rents. So it is unfair in a way, and anti-small business as the corporations know this.
Small business owners live on very small margins, if you add up all the expenses running a restaurant for example, like food cost, utilities, cooks, waiters, possible unexpected repairs, they don't make a whole lot of money and need to charge high prices in order to profit and stay in business.
I too want minimum wage to go up especially in other cities in San Diego, but the major problem by doing this, is that workers in low level labor will definitely get their hours cut, and possibly get laid off. Smaller business owners will be hit the hardest as they don't have the kind of capital to absorb the wage increase like a Mcdonalds, so we might actually see more businesses shut down in SD if this happens or lay off a high amount employees.
I believe the major issue we have here is under reported inflation. The cost for goods keep going up, yet wages haven't matched those increases. Just like health insurance is incredibly expensive for everyone, or when you get the bill for going to the ER just to have some blood work done because you weren't feeling too well that day, and the total cost for the bed, blood draw, and other expenses are like $5,000-10,000! WTF! But this happens everyday to uninsured people and it's wrong. High inflation is the issue, although our government isn't here in the real world going to the grocery store, buying movie tickets, buying that new car that cost a fortune, high housing prices, I mean everything you can think of has gotten more expensive in recent years, so it is this very reason why our economy is struggling and hasn't grown much in the last few years as we rely too much on a consumer based economy. You can also blame the insane mark up's for some items that we buy when it cost next to nothing for manufactures to produce. Look at a trash can that has the little retractable step-lid at say Walmart? They are charging almost $50 for one! At the most the cost to actually produce it if you include shipping from China or Taiwan, cost maybe around $10 max. The profit margin on a big hunk of plastic is just mind boggling, and it tells me that companies are way out of their heads as far as pricing goes, greed knows no boundaries if you ask me.
Politics is all a game. So much negative talk and attacks that politicians don't even explain HOW they will truly change the very system that is not meant to change. It's hard to believe what any of them say anymore, but for future reference, what we need are people running for office that don't have any ties to any major corporation, or interest groups, world leaders or foreign countries that support destruction around the world.
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and now with Clinton, nothing will change for the better of our nation if she becomes president. My fear is she will start another war somewhere just because her Saudi buddies tell her so.
His rhetoric is dangerous too. Three men were arrested for plotting to blow up an apartment complex of Somali immigrants that had a Mosque in it in Kansas. Those men are right wing terrorists who aren't Muslim but are Christian and white!!
I also don't feel like finding a bunch of online links right now to prove that Clinton is more heavily corrupt than we all think( Saying you are for gays and women's rights, when you financially profit and deal with a nation that murders gays, supports terrorism, and stones women to death is a bit hypocritical, don't ya think?) including the ease of our own government being able to hack the voting machines and rig it for Hillary which is exactly what will happen as world leaders and individual world controllers won't allow a Trump presidency, and there is also no proof that the Russians are in on it as well, so I will say this. I am not voting for Clinton although I am a moderate Dem, I probably will be independent next election. I honestly don't believe anything she says, and the BIGGEST reasons why, is because she is a lifelong politician. Lifelong politicians don't cater to the working people like you or me, the struggling class, or anyone for that matter, she only answers to her money backers, especially someone like her and Bill. 
