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Checkerboard Strangler

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There is opportunity for those who are interested in harnessing their energy to a very heartening message:

"America is already great, it's always been great."

Want to knock on some doors? Make some phone calls? Put together a compelling email message? Study the issues and figure out ways to settle the frictions? Take apart embedded corruption and replace it with ethical public servants? There's a lot you can do, at the local level.

There is no reason to reinvent the wheel if you don’t have to. There is no reason to spend all your time and energy forming a new group if there is a perfectly good group that you can take over and save yourself years of work building infrastructure and name recognition. The truth is that most of us are disgusted with the Democratic Party because it hasn’t been doing what we believe it should do. One response to that is to give up and leave the party in favor of another. Another response is to figure out how to seize control of the party and make it do what it should. I mean... imagine having a Democratic Party that was acting in a way that you could get excited about. It would be nice!
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The Democratic Party Is Yours. Take It
 
Yes, if there’s anything the Democrat party is about, it’s “settling friction”.
 
I'd rather not be included in the Democrat evangelism. Please dont call or knock on my door, I may have to respond factually to the misinformation and hysteria and would rather not be screamed at and called a Nazi/racist/bigot/etc for having differing views. Thanks
 
I'm not a registered Democrat, but I won't be voting for any Republican candidates for a long, long time.

The GOP is now Trumps GOP, and I've seen enough of it in 1½ years to last a lifetime.
 
digsbe said:
I'd rather not be included in the Democrat evangelism. Please dont call or knock on my door, I may have to respond factually to the misinformation and hysteria and would rather not be screamed at and called a Nazi/racist/bigot/etc for having differing views. Thanks
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I see you live in Metro DC. I live downtown. You know who knocks on my door that I don't know before they knock? Landscapers, roof repairers, Jehovah's witnesses and Mormons. It'd be cool to have a political canvasser, if you will, knocking. At least they'd be talking about something that interests me.​
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
There is opportunity for those who are interested in harnessing their energy to a very heartening message:

"America is already great, it's always been great."

Want to knock on some doors? Make some phone calls? Put together a compelling email message? Study the issues and figure out ways to settle the frictions? Take apart embedded corruption and replace it with ethical public servants? There's a lot you can do, at the local level.



The Democratic Party Is Yours. Take It
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I am very happy to report that after a long hiatus, I have now rejoined the Democratic Party.

I initially was considering getting more strongly involved via a web presence and interfacing with the Party itself, but instead have decided to simply spread the word in my normal personal interactions as I go through life. But I am consciously active in this, consistently taking advantage of opportunities to engage in fruitful discussion.

Opportunity to be political active in my regular daily activities is quite prevalent though, as my immediate neighbors and daily activities & interactions predominately involve Republicans. Yep, somehow this cradle Dem ended-up later-in-life running in Republican circles!

Oddly enough though, the biggest nut to crack in this matter is the women that shares my name and bed. Yep, she's a Trumper. Doesn't like the way he acts, but loves his hard immigration stance. Woe is me ...
 
Rogue Valley said:
I'm not a registered Democrat, but I won't be voting for any Republican candidates for a long, long time.

The GOP is now Trumps GOP, and I've seen enough of it in 1½ years to last a lifetime.
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You surely don't have to be registered to pull the 'D' handle! ;)
 
Chomsky said:
I am very happy to report that after a long hiatus, I have now rejoined the Democratic Party.

I initially was considering getting more strongly involved via a web presence and interfacing with the Party itself, but instead have decided to simply spread the word in my normal personal interactions as I go through life. But I am consciously active in this, consistently taking advantage of opportunities to engage in fruitful discussion.

Opportunity to be political active in my regular daily activities is quite prevalent though, as my immediate neighbors and daily activities & interactions predominately involve Republicans. Yep, somehow this cradle Dem ended-up later-in-life running in Republican circles!

Oddly enough though, the biggest nut to crack in this matter is the women that shares my name and bed. Yep, she's a Trumper. Doesn't like the way he acts, but loves his hard immigration stance. Woe is me ...
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So...you're in sort of a James Carville/Mary Matalin marriage?
Wow, always amazing how that works.

It's not like I never dated a conservative, I indeed have! I just never wound up marrying one.
I dated a "poor little rich girl" named Amy, back when I was about 27 years old and newly arrived in Los Angeles.
She lived at the top of the hill called Culver Crest, which was the high society neighborhood, in a house her father, a very prominent doctor, had bought her.
She was the antithesis of almost every girl I'd ever been with, blonde, fair skinned, blue eyed, demure and very into the trappings of celebrity and flashy style. And I was a "boy from the wrong side of the tracks" for her, at least as far as I can tell.
Our time together consisted of a lot of guilt on her end, she believed that she was being naughty and wrong.
Sigh, if you really like someone and care about them, how is anything ever wrong?
The relationship ended but we parted amicably.

I don't know if she's a Trumper but I am sure she's still very conservative.
But I also know that she really enjoys "being naughty" and rebellious, LOL, when she gives herself permission to.
 
X Factor said:
Yes, if there’s anything the Democrat party is about, it’s “settling friction”.
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I would rather be a liberal than a traitor
 
X Factor said:
Since when has patriotism and pride in the US been important to liberals?
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I am retired military two tours in Iraqi

and I lean left

no deferments here

Were in Vietnam did Trump serve again ?

Oh ya, Ol Bone Spurs served supermodels at Studio 54, silly me.
 
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Checkerboard Strangler said:
There is opportunity for those who are interested in harnessing their energy to a very heartening message:

"America is already great, it's always been great."

Want to knock on some doors? Make some phone calls? Put together a compelling email message? Study the issues and figure out ways to settle the frictions? Take apart embedded corruption and replace it with ethical public servants? There's a lot you can do, at the local level.



The Democratic Party Is Yours. Take It
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Michelle O was never proud to be an American until she became First Lady. Leftists perceive Americans as racists. They perceive Americans as stupid.

Good luck selling your message.
 
Xelor said:
Off Topic:

I see you live in Metro DC. I live downtown. You know who knocks on my door that I don't know before they knock? Landscapers, roof repairers, Jehovah's witnesses and Mormons. It'd be cool to have a political canvasser, if you will, knocking. At least they'd be talking about something that interests me.​
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Haha. That's a fair point to make.
 
Rogue Valley said:
I'm not a registered Democrat, but I won't be voting for any Republican candidates for a long, long time.

The GOP is now Trumps GOP, and I've seen enough of it in 1½ years to last a lifetime.
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Your the type of people I have been speaking to for most of 18.
I have been volunteering, making calls and talking to people all year. I'm a gen x'er with a lot of millenials and baby boomers in my life.
Volunteering at the senior center has been one of the best political things i could have done. I can't wait to take my seniors to the polls this November....and I am in a red state.
 
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