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not_the_one

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30. welcome to du... BUT
Wed Jan 1, 2020, 05:21 PM
Jan 2020

The division between US and THEM has been made for us, by THEM.

In any Democratic solution there is a belief in Human Rights, which allows a willingness to believe what one wants to believe. It is when someone tries to force it on the rest of us that the differences emerge.

If someone doesn't want to have an abortion, they don't have to. Yet THEY are determined to turn any woman who wants control over her own body, and who does, or anyone who helps in any way, into a criminal, and punished as THEY see fit.

If THEY want to keep their women barefoot, ignorant and pregnant, the only ones who can stop them are THOSE women. No democrat would ever try to push that status on ANY woman. If THEY want to keep their women as property and subservient to them, the only ones who can stop them are THOSE women. Those women know that there are other options available to them, but they have to be willing to make the choice, and whatever sacrifice is necessary, to attain that for themselves. We can help, but we can't force them. We CAN try to prohibit them forcing their beliefs, however misguided, on anyone else.

But the democratic party would never support forcing anyone to live under a political system that WOULD.

If THEY don't want to have a same sex relationship, then they don't have to have one. But they are determined to use a (questionably sourced) religious reference to force their interpretation on the rest of us. There should be NO religion in politics. Separation of church and state is ALREADY in the constitution.

THEY have turned current relevant political discourse into arguments for white supremacy, making all non-whites the enemy to be shunned, deported, even killed.

Democrats are the BIG tent party, and we are proud of it. Our big tent allows freedom of personal thought/opinion with the understanding that NO ONE can be forced to give up their Human Rights to please those who DON'T BELIEVE IN THOSE HUMAN RIGHTS.

THEY are the "whites only" tent, and THEY are proud of it. They are the "so-called" Christians, who, if Jesus (who would NOT fall into their "white" category) did come back, would be persecuted by those very same "so-called" Christians.

The lines have been clearly drawn. This is a fight to the death for the country, and possibly for our lives.

I have no interest in trying to find the good in ANYONE who will still identify themselves with an R behind their name, because THEY KNOW the new (and, allegedly, improved) definition of what that R means.

Maintaining the optimistic outlook that "there is good in them" ignores everything they say and show to us, every day.

We need to take off the blinders and do what needs to be done.

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