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To: Real Man who wrote (113171)	11/14/2020 11:00:07 AM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By Lee Lichterman III Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116960

OK. Maybe you don't have a heart. Why would you say this: "Red States teach us they are losers and deserve to be shot on the spot. Let’s shoot anyone earning 30k or less on the spot, most importantly, anyone who loses their job, immediately." This is very radical and simply not true. The data does not support your statement. Some of the poorest people in this country are white people living in red states who feel left behind by blue state coastal elites. And you think they should all be shot on the spot? It's because of that kind of thinking that 72M people voted for Trump. Democrats think the only poor people in this country are black people. They don't understand that poor white people FAR outnumber poor black people. So the Democrats make their tent unnecessarily smaller and it's why Trump was able to take over the white collar workers from the historical alignment with Democrats. Poor judgement on the Democrats part. Then you go on to say: "There is no easy solution. Love your enemy. Love your neighbor. If you shoot them they will shoot back. I bet USA has more extreme poverty in city centers than Africa. Crime in the US is mostly about survival, you can cure it by giving these people food and shelter." This I can get behind and agree with. We can and should do those things. We should continue what Trump was trying to do, which is shut down the global war machine, but then unlike what Trump was trying to do, we should take that money meant for the military and shift it to rebuilding this country, including cleaning out the inner cities through homeless support, while doing massive inner city investment programs to lift ALL poor, black and white, out from poverty or at least give them a fighting chance. But you know what does not work? What Portland, Seattle, NYC, Chicago, and other blue state Mayors and Governors or doing, which is to defund the police and allow anarchy, chaos, and lawlessness to reign supreme. We need to go back to common sense solutions, which start with law and order and build on top of that. People who are not physically safe will think of nothing else until they secure physical safety. It is simply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Democrats have forgotten that. It is why black people increased the percentage of the vote they gave to Trump from 2016 to 2020. Black people especially understand the need for law and order. They are some of the folks who live in constant physical insecurity, which stacks the deck against them. And btw, that physical insecurity comes from within their own communities most of all, NOT from police, which is what the Democrats want them to believe. 95% of all black murders are by black people.