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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think that this whole discussion is orchestrated by Republicans?

Not really. There are many reasons for moderates to be deeply concerned with the tone and language of many Democrats and the progressive left. They thought they were getting a pragmatic centrist aka Bill Clinton with Biden but we ended up with a president who seems to care more about national pronoun day than inflation and supply chain bottlenecks.

There is a distinct tone-deafness in the Democratic leadership to everyday needs and plights. I'm not really sure what is going on.

Do tell.

What magic wand do you think Biden should wave to end inflation?

And here's a fact sheet on the Biden Administration's action to tackle supply chain issues:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/10/13/fact-sheet-biden-administration-efforts-to-address-bottlenecks-at-ports-of-los-angeles-and-long-beach-moving-goods-from-ship-to-shelf/

Anonymous wrote:I feel like I get soured by the anticapitalist tone among some of the democrats. I am all for social programs and that includes universal health care. But there are a lot of programs pushed by the Democrats that I think are just redistribution of wealth and I am not for that.

Where do you live? Because redistribution of wealth is either happening to your detriment or in your favor RIGHT NOW with federal income taxes.

I often think people like the way words sound when they put them together but they really don't understand what they mean.

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Anonymous wrote:[/b]And, I'm sick of seeing my subordinates slack off at work, while I work 50-60 hours a week, as they demand larger and larger pay raises.[b]

I'll either vote Republican or not at all in 2022 and probably 2024. Someone will call me privileged, racist, or something else. Your knee-jerk response is exactly why people like me will cause Biden and co to lose... and lose big.

Turn off Fox.

I don't watch Fox, but Liberals constant cartoonist view of moderate Republicans is exactly why you will lose in 2022, then blame it on racism/sexism, then lose even more in 2024 before you get your act together.

Why are you working 50-60 hours a week? Either your company is understaffed and You are being taken advantage of, of you work overtime because your pay isn’t enough to support your COL. Just because you believe in working yourself to the bone doesn’t mean that is what healthy people do. What a horrible quality life. I can only imagine the way you treat your “subordinates“ who just want to have a decent quality of life. They’re probably also underpaid and overworked.

There are a lot of assumptions and over-generalizations in your response.

Enlighten me. Unless you are doing something Nobel like ending childhood poverty you don’t get brownie points for working 60 hours a week. No one’s ever put, “I wish I would’ve worked more” on their tombstone.

I am VP of Business Development for a federal contractor. I work 60 hours a week to ensure we have enough business to pay a salary to over 100 employees. I worked 70+ hours a week last year to ensure no one was laid off during the height of the pandemic.

Ok, I’m the PP. you did good work last year. But if working 60 hours a week is the norm I say that’s a really crappy way to live and you should not expect that of your subordinates outside every once in a generation pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:[/b]And, I'm sick of seeing my subordinates slack off at work, while I work 50-60 hours a week, as they demand larger and larger pay raises.[b]

I'll either vote Republican or not at all in 2022 and probably 2024. Someone will call me privileged, racist, or something else. Your knee-jerk response is exactly why people like me will cause Biden and co to lose... and lose big.

Turn off Fox.

I don't watch Fox, but Liberals constant cartoonist view of moderate Republicans is exactly why you will lose in 2022, then blame it on racism/sexism, then lose even more in 2024 before you get your act together.

Why are you working 50-60 hours a week? Either your company is understaffed and You are being taken advantage of, of you work overtime because your pay isn’t enough to support your COL. Just because you believe in working yourself to the bone doesn’t mean that is what healthy people do. What a horrible quality life. I can only imagine the way you treat your “subordinates“ who just want to have a decent quality of life. They’re probably also underpaid and overworked.

There are a lot of assumptions and over-generalizations in your response.

Enlighten me. Unless you are doing something Nobel like ending childhood poverty you don’t get brownie points for working 60 hours a week. No one’s ever put, “I wish I would’ve worked more” on their tombstone.

I am VP of Business Development for a federal contractor. I work 60 hours a week to ensure we have enough business to pay a salary to over 100 employees. I worked 70+ hours a week last year to ensure no one was laid off during the height of the pandemic.

My DH and I were moderate Republicans but we are at the point that we don’t think we’ll ever vote Republican again. The anti-democratic forces that are fueling Trumpism, January 6th, and the tax “reform” cuts that focused on the wealthy, complete unwillingness or acknowledgement that legislatures have to compromise and no one gets everything that they went, the disgusting state of healthcare in this country, and a host of other factors, have shown us that while the Democrats still suck, and that the woke culture claims make us roll our eyes so hard that we get headaches, at least they will push for some things that will benefit all the people and have the government try to,figure out how to make regular people’s lives better. The current Republican Party has succeeded in the great con - convincing those people who are the most disadvantaged by their policies to vote agains their own interests, and creating false narratives that blame it on other forces, and try to pin it on “Bra**on and the Dumbocrats and the socialist antifa” and getting traction on it because let’s me honest, the left-leaning media still has some shame. That and we’re not interested in seeing the Handmaid’s Tale become a documentary.

Our political position didn’t move; the political landscape moved around us.

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Anonymous wrote:[/b]And, I'm sick of seeing my subordinates slack off at work, while I work 50-60 hours a week, as they demand larger and larger pay raises.[b]

I'll either vote Republican or not at all in 2022 and probably 2024. Someone will call me privileged, racist, or something else. Your knee-jerk response is exactly why people like me will cause Biden and co to lose... and lose big.

Turn off Fox.

I don't watch Fox, but Liberals constant cartoonist view of moderate Republicans is exactly why you will lose in 2022, then blame it on racism/sexism, then lose even more in 2024 before you get your act together.

Why are you working 50-60 hours a week? Either your company is understaffed and You are being taken advantage of, of you work overtime because your pay isn’t enough to support your COL. Just because you believe in working yourself to the bone doesn’t mean that is what healthy people do. What a horrible quality life. I can only imagine the way you treat your “subordinates“ who just want to have a decent quality of life. They’re probably also underpaid and overworked.

There are a lot of assumptions and over-generalizations in your response.

Enlighten me. Unless you are doing something Nobel like ending childhood poverty you don’t get brownie points for working 60 hours a week. No one’s ever put, “I wish I would’ve worked more” on their tombstone.

Anonymous wrote:People vote on issue important to them. I have been a swing voter quite often but currently the Rs seem like the safer bet but I will vote for whatever candidate that seems more moderate.

What nationally known Republican do you think “seems more moderate” right now?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t agree. The Uber-progressive current DC City Council— with all of its terrible policies (especially with regard to crime)— is actually IN power.

I’m in DC, which policies are you referring to? I’m embarrassed to admit haven’t focused on local gov lately.

- youth rehab act
- second chance act
- violence interruptors
- catch and release, super lax, “woke” criminal policies for teens (see the girls who recently killed the Uber driver)
- endlessly raising taxes with a budget surplus (4m estate tax exemption and other tax increases this year)

What else do you need? There are so many examples. We are a bastion of liberalism. We voted 96% for Hillary. Basically, Virginia has a much more fair tax structure.

People vote on issue important to them. I have been a swing voter quite often but currently the Rs seem like the safer bet but I will vote for whatever candidate that seems more moderate.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t agree. The Uber-progressive current DC City Council— with all of its terrible policies (especially with regard to crime)— is actually IN power.

I’m in DC, which policies are you referring to? I’m embarrassed to admit haven’t focused on local gov lately.

Twitter is not real life.

I don’t agree. The Uber-progressive current DC City Council— with all of its terrible policies (especially with regard to crime)— is actually IN power.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sick of the identity politics from Dems and the GOP. Trump was all-in on the nationalism/white/christian junk. Democrats are all now all-into hyper-racialize politics of the Black/White variant.

I'm relatively wealthy, but willing to pay moderately higher taxes. I want police reform, but not defund the police. I want my kids to learn about racism, without hyper-racialize curriculum where everything and anything is racist. Inflation pisses me off. And, I'm sick of seeing my subordinates slack off at work, while I work 50-60 hours a week, as they demand larger and larger pay raises.

I'll either vote Republican or not at all in 2022 and probably 2024. Someone will call me privileged, racist, or something else. Your knee-jerk response is exactly why people like me will cause Biden and co to lose... and lose big.

Turn off Fox.

I’m a different poster, who also voted for Biden, but feels the same.

This identity politics and shouting anyone down who wants to employ objective criticism in policy development, is getting out of hand. What I mean is the push to redefine math education so it’s less rigorous in order to help social engineering and quotas and what not is insane. The push for restorative justice and violence interruptors that don’t work and other lax liberal criminal reform polices over tough on crime policing is stupid. The constant outrage and hyperbole and exasperated language on some many things these days is so annoying. Not every little problem is caused by systemic racism. It’s okay to ask about personal accountability and wanting to be strong on crime in the face of rising murder rates and crime. It’s okay not swallow every single part of this current social justice movement and to both want strong education and safer cities and not be a “racist”. So yes, Dems will lose big because voters will simply and quietly vote for whichever party is less morally rigid. Both sides are shtty in their own ways. Whether it’s religious zealotry on the right or moral absolutism on the left in the form of triggered SJWs yelling at everyone.

you were confusing activists with the Democratic Party. Those are two very separate things. an activist may push the Democratic Party but the Democratic Party is nowhere close to what you’re referring to. However if you look at the current GOP they are extreme. they are a party who has refused to refute the big lie, they have pushed anti-VAX anti-mask agenda, they push election shams, they have pushed these radical authoritarian ideas. You really need to separate what is noise from a group that has very little power to who holds the power which are the parties and what they are both doing.

Both parties have crazy people. Liberal crazies are more vocal these days. They are a distraction.

Case in point: https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sick of the identity politics from Dems and the GOP. Trump was all-in on the nationalism/white/christian junk. Democrats are all now all-into hyper-racialize politics of the Black/White variant.

I'm relatively wealthy, but willing to pay moderately higher taxes. I want police reform, but not defund the police. I want my kids to learn about racism, without hyper-racialize curriculum where everything and anything is racist. Inflation pisses me off. And, I'm sick of seeing my subordinates slack off at work, while I work 50-60 hours a week, as they demand larger and larger pay raises.

I'll either vote Republican or not at all in 2022 and probably 2024. Someone will call me privileged, racist, or something else. Your knee-jerk response is exactly why people like me will cause Biden and co to lose... and lose big.

Turn off Fox.

I’m a different poster, who also voted for Biden, but feels the same.

This identity politics and shouting anyone down who wants to employ objective criticism in policy development, is getting out of hand. What I mean is the push to redefine math education so it’s less rigorous in order to help social engineering and quotas and what not is insane. The push for restorative justice and violence interruptors that don’t work and other lax liberal criminal reform polices over tough on crime policing is stupid. The constant outrage and hyperbole and exasperated language on some many things these days is so annoying. Not every little problem is caused by systemic racism. It’s okay to ask about personal accountability and wanting to be strong on crime in the face of rising murder rates and crime. It’s okay not swallow every single part of this current social justice movement and to both want strong education and safer cities and not be a “racist”. So yes, Dems will lose big because voters will simply and quietly vote for whichever party is less morally rigid. Both sides are shtty in their own ways. Whether it’s religious zealotry on the right or moral absolutism on the left in the form of triggered SJWs yelling at everyone.

you were confusing activists with the Democratic Party. Those are two very separate things. an activist may push the Democratic Party but the Democratic Party is nowhere close to what you’re referring to. However if you look at the current GOP they are extreme. they are a party who has refused to refute the big lie, they have pushed anti-VAX anti-mask agenda, they push election shams, they have pushed these radical authoritarian ideas. You really need to separate what is noise from a group that has very little power to who holds the power which are the parties and what they are both doing.

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Anonymous wrote:[/b]And, I'm sick of seeing my subordinates slack off at work, while I work 50-60 hours a week, as they demand larger and larger pay raises.[b]

I'll either vote Republican or not at all in 2022 and probably 2024. Someone will call me privileged, racist, or something else. Your knee-jerk response is exactly why people like me will cause Biden and co to lose... and lose big.

Turn off Fox.

I don't watch Fox, but Liberals constant cartoonist view of moderate Republicans is exactly why you will lose in 2022, then blame it on racism/sexism, then lose even more in 2024 before you get your act together.

Why are you working 50-60 hours a week? Either your company is understaffed and You are being taken advantage of, of you work overtime because your pay isn’t enough to support your COL. Just because you believe in working yourself to the bone doesn’t mean that is what healthy people do. What a horrible quality life. I can only imagine the way you treat your “subordinates“ who just want to have a decent quality of life. They’re probably also underpaid and overworked.

There are a lot of assumptions and over-generalizations in your response.