Is it coincidence that GOP states are RED as was the Russian Army.

He didn't do that either. Might as well charge him with wearing mis-matched socks.

 

This is really getting old isn’t it? Well maybe not. I have young grandchildren. A characteristic of small children is that once an activity excites them, they want to do it over and over and over again until it just gets annoying. Luckily little children can be easily distracted.


Are you not here displaying one of the characteristic behaviors of conservative thought? Can’t form a cognitive argument in support of one’s position, so the other guy is attacked, personally. How long has it been repeatedly pounded into your head things like that Democrats are authoritarians. No real proof of such an allegation, but just something that gets batted around the Conservative Dome until it be becomes the gospel truth. Yet it is a shallow belief, being as it is not based on fact. Being as beliefs tend to be more emotional than cerebral, when presented with evidence that contradicts those well seated beliefs, the response is an emotional one. Thus your shortcomings, in your mind alone, become mine.


If my posts are too long for you to grapple with, you do not have to read them. You can stay with the one line responses. This forum is full of them. But we both know the real reason you post such inane responses to my posts. Don’t we?

 

You could have reduced all of that down to this:

 

Your problem, not mine.

 

You are getting better already.

 

I have spent most of my adult life living and working in the Boulder Colorado area. Boulder is arguably the most liberal city in America. Interestingly enough, in a reversal of the national pattern, Boulder County is even more liberal than the city. As such, the extreme of the left, the Democratic Party, is more likely to be more Boulder-like, than any of the dystopian scenarios conservatives like to imagine.

Boulder, being highly liberal, is a lenient town with a small visible police presence. They are really strict on speeding and drunk driving. They are also hard on polluters. Beyond that it is a very free place to live. It was founded with the idea of equality between the races and sexes. The University was begun, in the late 1800’s, with a woman at the helm. From the beginning segregation was specifically forbidden. It is a culture that has been very supportive of both feminism and homosexuality, and of the environment. It is also a sanctuary for artistic, intellectual, and technological development. Crime is low and salaries are high. At only 17%, Boulder has the lowest rate of religiosity in the country. I can do nothing but laugh at those who would claim that Boulder, and the culture
in and around Boulder, approaches anything resembling authoritarianism.

Is this not what led us here, the false claim that the left was authoritarian? Not able to support that claim, it seems it is desired to change the subject.



Typically, a president achieves his agenda by persuading Congress to pass supporting legislation. The Trump failed in this respect. All of its achievements have been through executive orders. Which is why Biden has been able to so easily undo the Trump’s efforts with a flurry of executive orders. The only legislative issues of importance was the tax cuts, mostly for the wealthy, and the repeal of ObamaCare. The tax cut was going to happen, no matter which Republican would have been elected president. The repeal of ObamaCare failed.

The Trump had promised a wall, that he could not pay for. Mexico was not about to pay for it and Congress was not about to allocate funds for it. In defiance of the will of Congress, and thus the will of the majority of the people, the Trump diverted military funds to pay for its fence.

Biden clearly won the election. The Trump has been highly unpopular throughout its presidency, and I am certain it was well aware of this fact. Throughout it has been insisting that the only way it could lose was through cheating on the other side. It pounded that idea into the heads of its followers, day after day, week after week, year after year. As the election approached, and states took steps to make voting safer, in face of the pandemic, the Trump, and its allies, worked tirelessly to prevent such steps. It even went so far as to attempt to literally dismantle the Post Office, in an effort to frustrate the votes of its opponents. After it clearly lost the election, it has been on a campaign to pretend said loss never occurred. That it failed in this endeavor does not excuse its intent.

In the grand scheme of things political science can be laid out on a political line. At one end, to the right, is authoritarianism, with an absolute ruler. On the other end, to the left is a direct democracy, wIth every citizen voting on every issue. Both of these are highly undesirable and most countries find a happy balance between the two. This last election cycle has shown that many in the Republican Party are more willing to follow the will of the leader, rather than the will of the majority of the people. That, my friend, is authoritarianism.

 

Maybe that's why the Boulder police handled the investigation into Jon Bonet Ramsey's murder so ineptly.

 

Just when you think somebody could not post something dumber than before.

 

I better stop cheering for Alabama. Too communist!

 

With the murder rate less than one a year, is it no wonder?

 

You wouldn't recognize a true authoritarian if you saw one