In case you were wondering, I AM NOT A FREEPER.

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Star Member JDPriestly (47,809 posts)

In case you were wondering, I AM NOT A FREEPER.


I'm not a FREEPER. I'm 71. I remember Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, George McGovern and all the good liberals. I read history and am reminded of the work the two Roosevelts did to clean up our government.

And that's the kind of Democrat I am. I believe in clean government. I believe in Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, public schools, high taxes on high incomes, racial equaltiy for all, welfare for struggling mothers and fathers (yes, I do), free pre-school education, fair wages for all working people and not just in the US, and all kinds of programs and initiatives that require us to work together.

I am as far from a Republican as anyone could possibly be. I have children. Like all human children they were born with four skills -- crying, wiggling, sucking and eliminating human waste. They couldn't see. They couldn't walk. They couldn't talk. They were completely dependent on me and their father and the good doctors and nurses in the hospitals. Anyone who has ever had a baby cannot seriously think that human society can survive, that human babies can survive, in a libertarian paradise or anything close to it.

We humans are social animals. No one of us can make it on his or her own. Any person who thinks he is better than someone else has not taken a good look at him- or herself. We really are equal.. We are born equally helpless. And every bit of self-reliance and every skill we develop, we learn from other people and from our environment.

I am the furtherest thing from a FREEPER that there could be. I am a DEMOCRAT.

Thanks, Manny for giving me the chance to say this and make it very clear.

When Hillary Clinton wrote that "It Takes a Village," she was right on. Unfortunately, she has turned to Wall Street, Walmart, Pete Peterson, etc. for the financial support to buy the election. And, unforunately, her husband signed bill after bill that undermines the ground on which our villages are built. NAFTA, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, Welfare "Reform," just to name a few. I do not think she should be the Democratic candidate.

If we want more of Walmart, Pete Peterson, if we want less of Medicare, Social Security, if we want low wages compared to the CEO wages, if want more corporate sequestering of profits overseas, if we want more wars, if we want more private and charter schools, if we want a society in which our very youngest and very oldest are on their own, then we can keep going in the direction in which we are headed. And Hillary Clinton, although not the worst, will, not through her will but through acquiescence to the corruption that engulfs her, lead us there.

But I say it is time to pause, to check our moral compasses and decide to follow a path that leads to a better life for us all of humans, starting with all of us Americans -- a life in which, without losing our individuality and individual freedom, we work together to improve the chances for the survival of the human race. That means listening to experts on the environment and making sure that we all benefit from the new, exciting technologies that we are developing. It means forming alliances with others in the world who believe in religious tolerance and freedom of ideas and speech. We need a new voice in the White House with a great deal of courage to forge down this path. We need a president with the ability to use the bully pulpit the president has to improve the world.

Obama has been doing what he could. But to carry his legacy further than he could, we need someone with a really bold, new approach who is not caught up in defending some family or other legacy, someone who dares to challenge Americans to create a more just society.

The Republicans have no candidate. Scott Walker is not very bright. He can't think for himself (that's why he depends so much on ALEC), and it shows when he has to think on his feet. Jeb Bush is another defender of a family legacy and a loser to boot -- utterly boring as was Mitt Romney. Rand Paul is an immature whiner. You can hear it in his voice. And no, that isn't his southern accent. That is the sound of the baby crying inside of him.

This is the time for Democrats to pick the best candidate possible. The time to tear down the weak slate the Republicans are offering will come later.

We need to allow more Democrats to put their hats in the ring. If Hillary wins in a contested race, she will be the stronger for it. But to hand her the nomination without testing her against other candidates is a big mistake. And I personally, for the many reasons I have stated on DU, do not want her in the White House. Two terms for the Clintons was enough. Three terms for the Bushes was far, far, far too much.

I could care less DUmmie. You're still an ahole.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026333398

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And every bit of self-reliance and every skill we develop, we learn from other people and from our environment.

Then when did you mutts make the wrong turn at Albuquerque since you can`t even wipe your own ass without help.

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I could care less DUmmie. You're still an ahole.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026333398

Yeah, this one's one of those quickly turning into a "greatest thread" yesterday; it's probably grown several miles longer since then.

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Star Member JDPriestly (47,809 posts)

In case you were wondering, I AM NOT A FREEPER.

I am as far from a Republican as anyone could possibly be. I have children. Like all human children they were born with four skills -- crying, wiggling, sucking and eliminating human waste. They couldn't see. They couldn't walk. They couldn't talk. They were completely dependent on me and their father and the good doctors and nurses in the hospitals. Anyone who has ever had a baby cannot seriously think that human society can survive, that human babies can survive, in a libertarian paradise or anything close to it.

Why not just abort them ?
It will keep the crime rate down...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/katie-yoder/2015/03/10/bill-maher-asks-if-abortion-responsible-less-crime

I guess libs just think completely opposite to me.
My thinking was  since abortion is supported and wanted by so many, and because it is legal that it devalues human life.
Once abortion devalues human life it becomes hard for anyone to believe that we as a society would want to prosecute criminals that take lives.
My logic leads me to believe that abortion has the effect of increasing the crime rate or that without it...crime would be much lower.