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To: epicure who wrote (364029)	2/22/2018 11:05:18 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 543153

I am not looking for wharfs approval. I have a simple disagreement with him about the Republican party and the threat they have been and are today. When he attacks my assertions, I find many of his arguments specious and without merit and I comment on them. I think I can defend my positions and am willing to do so in the light of day, without any personal attacks. To agree to something I do not think is true is not in my DNA e.g. I am quite sure I can make an argument the Republicans have been more or less the same danger they are today for the last 100 years and that Lincoln was a liberal. Both of which wharf disagrees with. I am well aware of the educated that are Republican and have explained my theories on that many times. And they follow most of yours, including a possible genetic difference e.g. maybe more left brain and less right brain, lack of liberal arts education, less mirror neurons and so lacking empathy, lack of sensitivity and even possible imprinting at an early age which seems to explain peoples difficulty in shaking dogma. Whatever the make up of Republicans, they are attacking us as a monolithic force and we need to meet that attack by defeating their dangerous ideas at the ballot box. I try to keep my thesis academic and I think both the reason we are in this dangerous situation and the way out lies in recognizing the threat and how it came to be. To use a well known phrase attributed to Sun Tzu: "know they enemy". Obama hated partisanship and he appointed Tim Kaine in 2009 as the head of the DNC who hated partisanship as much as Obama did. Then the two of them worked tirelessly on bipartisanship. Obama distanced himself from the DNC and liberals and worked hard to bring dems and pubs together even using Lincolns "Team of Rivals" ideas appointing many Republicans to his administration. Which I thought and still think was a disaster. But the Republicans are 100% into partisanship even having Reagans 11th amendment :" Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican" and the Hastert rule. So while Obama and Kaine were trying hard to bring the red states and blue states together, the Republicans were united opposing the Democrats and laying traps e.g. doing everything in congress to make Obama a one term president by refusing to pass most of what he wanted and many other tricks and planning for the 2010 election and gerrymandering. And the result was that we were slaughtered in 2010 losing 63 seats in the house. And to add insult to injury when Kaine was asked afterward why such large loss he said it was because the country wants more bipartisanship. He had not learned his lesson. They had outmaneuvered us by fighting us as a united force. Just like they are doing today. And today the Democratic party is in the worst shape it has been in 100 years and Trump and the Republicans are not only destroying the country's social structure, environment and safety regulations, they are leading us to authoritarian rule and fomenting pain and misery across the country. To the point you talk about leaving the country. My only request is that when anyone finds my ideas extreme or invalid then attack my ideas, not me. I seldom post anything I do not both fact check and review for its logic. I think I can defend my ideas. JMO :>)

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