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LouC here!

Yeah, you enjoy that.

Great job judging the guy before he has a chance to post outside of his welcome thread. Since when are you the sole arbiter of who is or is not a conservative? Some people are RHINO's and some people are wingnuts.
 
I have to say I have never seen a new poster attacked on his intro thread before. You must be striking quite a nerve telling the truth LouC.

Thanks!

I didn't know I was unique in that?

I guess "truth" has become a much more pointed thorn in some people's sides than even I had realized?
 
Because folks at another political message board told me I was a Liberal.

I got tired of arguing with them so I just decided to accept it.

Now you're a libertarian. Don't argue.
 
I have been wallowing in the pure enjoyment of being a member of a nonjudgemental Political Party with members who don't consider me an "enemy" simply because I don't goose-step to the drum beat of the party head.

Well, which party is that? Certainly not the dims, and you say not the Rs.
 
Well, which party is that? Certainly not the dims, and you say not the Rs.

It is the Democratic Party. Not one single fellow Democratic Party member ever accosted me, denigrated me, verbally assaulted me, castigated me, laughed at me, or, in the final straw named me their "enemy" the way my once fellow Republican Party members did just for me expressing my point of view.
 
I think I've seen you around in the forum already, but I'm just now seeing this thread.

Honestly, terms for political idealogies can get really complicated once you step beyond the basic understanding of what most Americans have about liberalism and conservatism. Since high-school, I've always assumed the major difference between the two is change vs maintaining the status quo. When I think of today's liberalism, I think of wealth redistribution and the railing against traditional ideals. When I think of conservatism, I think about, well, the opposite. In that regard, I would actually consider the Obama/Clinton/Pelosi branch of the party to be conservative, just not nearly as much as the Republican party.

That last line might make some conservative heads explode in confusion, but if we were to look at the Democratic party from a purely economic perspective, it's very different from FDR's Democratic party . . . which was also socially conservative at the time--Jesus, I'm getting a headache.

I still, to this day, do not truly know the real difference between liberalism and progressivism, as I've been given and I have found different answers, but I identify as a progressive because of the movement that I'm a part of. I could also say that I'm a soc-dem (social democrat) but Sanders up and confused the term 'social democrat' with 'democratic socialist', so I guess that's what we're all calling it, now.

I don't consider conservatives to truly be 'small government' any more than liberals. I beleive that honor actually goes to the libertarians, who generally beleive in minimilistic government on all issues. An oversimplification would be to say that they're fiscally conservative, are generally not in favor of an over-bloated military, not in favor of drug or any similar prohibition, not in favor of inserting gov't and religon into the sex lives of consenting adults, etc.

When it comes to party affliation I have, for the longest time, not identified as a Democrat. I've always been to the left of them, and despise both parties in their current form. Up until 2016, I had always voted for Democrats purely on the basis that they weren't the Republicans.

If it were me, I'd simply call you a fiscally conservative moderate, depending on where you stand on social and foreign policy issues.

Actually, I'm starting to wonder if this forum ever had a recent discussion on political idealogies and such.
 
Hello to all. Looking forward to getting into the stream of conversation here! :2wave:

I was a happy Republican and Fiscal Conservative for decades. Then the Republican Party, in the last 12 years or so, started shrinking their "big tent" and just kept shrinking their focus in politics, to the point that, with the ascension of Donald Trump, and his giddy declaration in December of 2016 that we who did march to his drumbeat, essentially, were his "enemies", it was the last straw and the Republican Party had finally LEFT me out.

In late 2016, after the election, I moved to a new state and when I had lived there long enough I Registered as a Democrat. I have no illusions about the Democratic Party, but at least they have not installed an insane man-child at the head of the party, who considers me an enemy, and unfortunately, got him elected to the head of our Nation.

I am now a proud and happy LIBERAL, if that label makes you happy so that you can pigeon hole me in future conversations.

I still have Conservative leanings, in particular in regards what I believe our Federal Government should be and should do. Still that Fiscal Conservative I always was.

I am not afraid of being wrong and admitting it when I am, but I am also not afraid to let others know when they are wrong! (So don't be wrong. :2razz:)

I don't love or enjoy all topics, no one does, but when I get intrigued with a story or an argument I tend to go overboard in doing background on the topic.

I am in my 60's but I am not impossibly set in my ways.

I enjoy humor and humorous things and some have said I have a quirky sense of humor, but I can also take a joke.

Oh, I tend to be verbose, at times, in case you haven't noticed that?

:lol:

Welcome! Let's have a good time and kick back some drinks :) :)
 
May 24th.
RAIN RAIN RAIN
No garden going in this year!
Drats!!!
If it hasn't been cold and rainy I have been clobbered with seeming non stop doctors visits or running to get this medical test for me or that EGD etc for my wife.
Ok Lou, as a good friend used to say to me, time to put on your big boy pants and deal with it!
:)
 
Hello to all. Looking forward to getting into the stream of conversation here! :2wave:

I was a happy Republican and Fiscal Conservative for decades. Then the Republican Party, in the last 12 years or so, started shrinking their "big tent" and just kept shrinking their focus in politics, to the point that, with the ascension of Donald Trump, and his giddy declaration in December of 2016 that we who did march to his drumbeat, essentially, were his "enemies", it was the last straw and the Republican Party had finally LEFT me out.

In late 2016, after the election, I moved to a new state and when I had lived there long enough I Registered as a Democrat. I have no illusions about the Democratic Party, but at least they have not installed an insane man-child at the head of the party, who considers me an enemy, and unfortunately, got him elected to the head of our Nation.

I am now a proud and happy LIBERAL, if that label makes you happy so that you can pigeon hole me in future conversations.

I still have Conservative leanings, in particular in regards what I believe our Federal Government should be and should do. Still that Fiscal Conservative I always was.

I am not afraid of being wrong and admitting it when I am, but I am also not afraid to let others know when they are wrong! (So don't be wrong. :2razz:)

I don't love or enjoy all topics, no one does, but when I get intrigued with a story or an argument I tend to go overboard in doing background on the topic.

I am in my 60's but I am not impossibly set in my ways.

I enjoy humor and humorous things and some have said I have a quirky sense of humor, but I can also take a joke.

Oh, I tend to be verbose, at times, in case you haven't noticed that?

:lol:



Hey, I'm also near Boise

Crazy huh?(LOL)
 
Hey folks! :2wave: Been hanging out in other burrows for quite some time. But I am checking in to say a hello and let you all know I am still alive and kicking.

Only 364,806 days to go before I can be reinstated as an Honored Guest on the Hannity Forum.

If you haven't heard I was banned there for a thousand years for (in essence) asking why Mods could insult and denigrate "Honored Guests" i.e. "Forum Members" but forum members couldn't call non members stupid without getting a 30 day time out?

That was the last straw that supposedly was my going over the line and being deserving of a 1000 Year ban.

:lamo
 
Contrary to the rumors and contrary to what some might have hoped, I am not dead, not yet.
No I have just been more consumed with private world events happening in my back yard or front yard as well as the case has been.
I am hoping to be back more frequently in another month or two.
Until then, keep it up and carry on, not that I needed to add that. Right? ;)
 
Hello to all. Looking forward to getting into the stream of conversation here! :2wave:

I was a happy Republican and Fiscal Conservative for decades. Then the Republican Party, in the last 12 years or so, started shrinking their "big tent" and just kept shrinking their focus in politics, to the point that, with the ascension of Donald Trump, and his giddy declaration in December of 2016 that we who did march to his drumbeat, essentially, were his "enemies", it was the last straw and the Republican Party had finally LEFT me out.

In late 2016, after the election, I moved to a new state and when I had lived there long enough I Registered as a Democrat. I have no illusions about the Democratic Party, but at least they have not installed an insane man-child at the head of the party, who considers me an enemy, and unfortunately, got him elected to the head of our Nation.

I am now a proud and happy LIBERAL, if that label makes you happy so that you can pigeon hole me in future conversations.

I still have Conservative leanings, in particular in regards what I believe our Federal Government should be and should do. Still that Fiscal Conservative I always was.

I am not afraid of being wrong and admitting it when I am, but I am also not afraid to let others know when they are wrong! (So don't be wrong. :2razz:)

I don't love or enjoy all topics, no one does, but when I get intrigued with a story or an argument I tend to go overboard in doing background on the topic.

I am in my 60's but I am not impossibly set in my ways.

I enjoy humor and humorous things and some have said I have a quirky sense of humor, but I can also take a joke.

Oh, I tend to be verbose, at times, in case you haven't noticed that?

:lol:
Welcome Lou.
 
Hi to all my Friends, Family, Allies, and a warm hug and hello to all my Esteemed Enemies!

Still not dead.

Just been wallowing in the real world mundanities of late!

That and I have been basking in the warm glow of a decidedly more normal world scene.

What an incredible and remarkable and tragic year 2021 has been above and beyond our still present Pandemic and Plague!

So keep up keeping on as I am certain you all are doing!
 
Hello to all. Looking forward to getting into the stream of conversation here! :2wave:

I was a happy Republican and Fiscal Conservative for decades. Then the Republican Party, in the last 12 years or so, started shrinking their "big tent" and just kept shrinking their focus in politics, to the point that, with the ascension of Donald Trump, and his giddy declaration in December of 2016 that we who did march to his drumbeat, essentially, were his "enemies", it was the last straw and the Republican Party had finally LEFT me out.

In late 2016, after the election, I moved to a new state and when I had lived there long enough I Registered as a Democrat. I have no illusions about the Democratic Party, but at least they have not installed an insane man-child at the head of the party, who considers me an enemy, and unfortunately, got him elected to the head of our Nation.

I am now a proud and happy LIBERAL, if that label makes you happy so that you can pigeon hole me in future conversations.

I still have Conservative leanings, in particular in regards what I believe our Federal Government should be and should do. Still that Fiscal Conservative I always was.

I am not afraid of being wrong and admitting it when I am, but I am also not afraid to let others know when they are wrong! (So don't be wrong. :2razz:)

I don't love or enjoy all topics, no one does, but when I get intrigued with a story or an argument I tend to go overboard in doing background on the topic.

I am in my 60's but I am not impossibly set in my ways.

I enjoy humor and humorous things and some have said I have a quirky sense of humor, but I can also take a joke.

Oh, I tend to be verbose, at times, in case you haven't noticed that?

:lol:
Welcome Lou, to both the forum and Socialism 🤣
 
Actually no. That is not at all the full situation.

I had been a lifelong Registered Republican. For the most part I was a happy Republican, from the time I turned 18 back in 1975, until about the year 2000. The whole Republican hierarchy obsession with the Clintons began to concern me about the direction the Right was taking. Still I gladly voted for George W. Bush for President as I had voted for him as Governor of Texas where I was living. But what I saw as the misuse of the worlds feelings after 9/11, their support for America, I saw that goodwill misused for the needless invasion of Iraq. Oh I voted for Bush for a second term, despite his taking the Republican Party down what I felt was a very wrong road.

Then there was the election of Barack Hussein Obama. I had felt for some time that the Republican party was moving in a direction I just did not feel I could any longer go. But Barack's election, the way so many Right wing family and friends reacted, their hate, their bigotry, their mindless vitriol, which was mirrored in the thoughts and actions of my fellow Right wingers on that other board just made me feel more and more there was little place for me under the Republican tent.

I never voted for Obama, I argued against much of his work as president, but I couldn't and wouldn't accept the lies and the unfounded smears that were a daily part of what I was experiencing. So I didn't accept them, and the more i did that the more I was labeled a "filthy Liberal".

The straw that broke this Republican camel's back was the insane ascension of Donald Trump to the presidency and to the leadership of the Republican Party, with his post election December greeting to his friends and to his enemies (those Americans who didn't goose step to his drum, which included me) being the end of my being a Republican.

Shortly after he was elected I moved to a new state and when it came time to register to vote I accepted the Republican's disinvite and registered as a Democrat.

I certainly have no regrets.

The Republican Party happily LEFT me out.
You are a thoughtful constituent.
 
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