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Wry Catcher

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PREMISE: The Government under Trump&Co. is more Authoritarian than any Democratic Administration or Republican Administration ever.

The United States is a Federation, and power is divested to the states and municipalities. This and the Separation of Power are the genius of our Constitution; the Framers and signers of COTUS were opposed to a Monarchy with the power solely in the hands of a King.

The separation of power thus limited the power of the Executive, a power which has been abused by Donald Trump; an outlier of any prior President. Trump has cobbled together an Attorney General and the leader of the Senate to support Trump's lust for power. With the collusion of Barr and McConnell they have packed the federal judiciary with Federalists who are today supporting an Imperial Presidency.

The final power to support and defend the Constitution is left to the voters. Donald Trump is a megalomaniac ( a person who is obsessed with their own power ) and our Republic cannot survive if he is reelected.

The good people of Kentucky must not send McConnell to another term to the Senate. Like Trump, he has abused the power of the office, an office of trust which he too abuses. Both conservatives and liberals have seen this one man use the rules of the senate to roadblock legislation solely to defend his political party, and thus his personal power too.

As a Democrat I'm not alone fed up with the abuse of power by Trump, Barr and McConnell; all three are corrupt as are their fellow travelers.

‘Ashamed''' Trump 2016 Voters Explain Why They’re Ditching The President

and,

The Lincoln Project, Other Anti-Trump Efforts Endorse Biden : NPR

Lincoln Project former Republicans out to beat Donald Trump

Bush, Romney and Colin Powell Won'''t Support Trump Re-Election - The New York Times

Republicans Are Breaking From Trump Like We’ve Never Seen

It's past time to put single wedge issues away, and to support and defend our Constitution in the words and spirit by your vote. The deeds of McConnell, Barr and Trump repudiate the Mission and Vision Statement left to us in the Preamble to COTUS:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
 
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Well...the old BS detector is going off again so....time to mosey along
 
Big lies have big consequences.
 
Well...the old BS detector is going off again so....time to mosey along

If you mean me, you need to post an expository rebuttal to each point in my post. If you didn't, explain what you mean by the comment, "the old BS detector is going off again so....time to mosey along".

If you can't write or don't understand the word "expository", please let me know and I'll educate you.
 
PREMISE: The Government under Trump&Co. is more Authoritarian than any Democratic Administration or Republican Administration ever.

The United States is a Federation, and power is divested to the states and municipalities. This and the Separation of Power are the genius of our Constitution; the Framers and signers of COTUS were opposed to a Monarchy with the power solely in the hands of a King.

The separation of power thus limited the power of the Executive, a power which has been abused by Donald Trump; an outlier of any prior President. Trump has cobbled together an Attorney General and the leader of the Senate to support Trump's lust for power. With the collusion of Barr and McConnell they have packed the federal judiciary with Federalists who are today supporting an Imperial Presidency.

The final power to support and defend the Constitution is left to the voters. Donald Trump is a megalomaniac ( a person who is obsessed with their own power ) and our Republic cannot survive if he is reelected.

The good people of Kentucky must not send McConnell to another term to the Senate. Like Trump, he has abused the power of the office, an office of trust which he too abuses. Both conservatives and liberals have seen this one man use the rules of the senate to roadblock legislation solely to defend his political party, and thus his personal power too.

As a Democrat I'm not alone fed up with the abuse of power by Trump, Barr and McConnell; all three are corrupt as are their fellow travelers.

‘Ashamed''' Trump 2016 Voters Explain Why They’re Ditching The President

and,

The Lincoln Project, Other Anti-Trump Efforts Endorse Biden : NPR

Lincoln Project former Republicans out to beat Donald Trump

Bush, Romney and Colin Powell Won'''t Support Trump Re-Election - The New York Times

Republicans Are Breaking From Trump Like We’ve Never Seen

It's past time to put single wedge issues away, and to support and defend our Constitution in the words and spirit by your vote. The deeds of McConnell, Barr and Trump repudiate the Mission and Vision Statement left to us in the Preamble to COTUS:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."


I often wish I was a voter in Kentucky, but also in New York (Schumer) and San Francisco (Pelosi). The games are out of control on both sides. I don't disagree that Trump & Co. has taken an authoritarian turn, but the silent, acquiescing Republicans who will tolerate anything to maintain power are the real problem. And the equally greedy Dems are no better (the Kavanaugh circus comes to mind--entirely on the shoulders of Pelosi and her flying monkeys). Trump knows nothing about how government works, so it seems almost inevitable that he would try running the country the same way he did his business--in which he was the absolute BOSS. No reason the Republicans had to remain silent to all his shenanigans, though.
 
Will the poster who claimed my thread was bull**** offer some substance on why trump should be given four more years? What has Trump done to:

form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defense,
promote the general Welfare, or
secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity

Not a thing.
 
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I often wish I was a voter in Kentucky, but also in New York (Schumer) and San Francisco (Pelosi). The games are out of control on both sides. I don't disagree that Trump & Co. has taken an authoritarian turn, but the silent, acquiescing Republicans who will tolerate anything to maintain power are the real problem. And the equally greedy Dems are no better (the Kavanaugh circus comes to mind--entirely on the shoulders of Pelosi and her flying monkeys). Trump knows nothing about how government works, so it seems almost inevitable that he would try running the country the same way he did his business--in which he was the absolute BOSS. No reason the Republicans had to remain silent to all his shenanigans, though.

As an independent, I assume you will decide your vote on the issues and policies, and are not a single issue / wedge issue voter. I wonder how other independents will decide, I only once vote against a Democratic nominee for president, that was in 1980 when I voted for John Anderson (a Republican who ran against Reagan and Carter) and was on the ticket if I remember correctly as an independent.
 
As an independent, I assume you will decide your vote on the issues and policies, and are not a single issue / wedge issue voter. I wonder how other independents will decide, I only once vote against a Democratic nominee for president, that was in 1980 when I voted for John Anderson (a Republican who ran against Reagan and Carter) and was on the ticket if I remember correctly as an independent.

Yeah, you never know with me. I don't vote by party; I've been all over the board, vote for who I like--Dem, Repub and Independents. If they had nominated a decent Republican in '16, I probably would have voted for him. I strongly dislike Hillary Clinton, have for many years. Another reason to dislike Trump--he made me vote for Hillary!

My big issue isn't the two parties' platforms, although that's important to consider of course. My big beef is the partisanship that has become a monkey wrench in the machinery of governance, and it's getting worse all the time.
 
Looks as if 2distracted picked a good nom de plume; he hasn't had the time to respond to what I perceived to be an ad hominem.
 
Looks as if 2distracted picked a good nom de plume; he hasn't had the time to respond to what I perceived to be an ad hominem.

It's because your premise is actually a biased commentary and partisan rant.

The following statement is absurd in light of current events:

It's past time to put single wedge issues away, and to support and defend our Constitution in the words and spirit by your vote.

First off, democrats are the party of wedge issues; race baiting, LGBTQ, identity politics, immigration, children in cages drinking from toilets, etc. - It's not that they care, it's that they use the issues like a billy club and pander for votes.

As a democrat, I hope you've noticed that leadership in the Democratic Party are bowing down to a Marxist-terrorist organization whose endgame is the abolition of PD's across the country and the destruction of the Constitution and it's amendments.

How do we know this? Attacking statues of the founders will not satisfy their thirst for blood. They will turn their attention to the Founders Documents, which, if you follow the argument that the Founders were racists who founded the country with oppression, then the founding has to be undone and begun anew.

Democrats and the media are denying this, but this is the direction BLM is heading. First they need people kneeling and apologizing, next they need PD's to be abolished so there is no response team to counter their protests, then the real demands will be revealed, and it will be too late for all the politicians and corporations lining up to pledge their allegiance to Black Lives Matter - a Marxist-terrorist guerrilla operation.
 
Yeah, you never know with me. I don't vote by party; I've been all over the board, vote for who I like--Dem, Repub and Independents. If they had nominated a decent Republican in '16, I probably would have voted for him. I strongly dislike Hillary Clinton, have for many years. Another reason to dislike Trump--he made me vote for Hillary!

My big issue isn't the two parties' platforms, although that's important to consider of course. My big beef is the partisanship that has become a monkey wrench in the machinery of governance, and it's getting worse all the time.

I blame Newt Gingrich, and Tom Delay, both attacked the Democratic Party hoping to make the Republican Party a monopoly. This theme seems to be in play on Social Media, where every Democratic Pol has had his or her character assassinated with no proof and no substance.
 
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