Posted By RichC on September 30, 2020
“INCOMING!” (reference to the diving falcon photo)
With best intentions, I had hoped to post on Tuesday night’s first of 3 presidential debates for Wednesday morning – nope … maybe over lunch?
I am with those who are embarrassed at what we now see and hear from our political leaders. To be honest, the “offensive to me” juvenile name-calling sideshow, that rallied Candidate Trump to victory in 2016, seems mild compared to last night. The debate … or debacle … was what one might expect in a union hall or testosterone heavy military bar. I’m sure there are some of us who still prefer civility and respectful exchanges in debates covering political ideology, platforms and leadership accomplishments/failures verses hyperbolic claims and personal attacks?
If anything came from this for Joe Biden, it was that the VP looked more capable and less senile than expected. On the other hand, his exaggeration, presidential disrespect and disregard in choice of words (stupid, liar, shut-up man, etc) make President Trump’s juvenile nicknames for candidates seem mild. I couldn’t help but think about those moms, dads and teachers who try everyday to instill manors, 
appropriate behavior and respectful word choices in their children or students … this can’t possibly help them support either candidate?
About the only thing positive and helpful that I could come away with was to look at the “groups” lined up to defend and support each candidate. These groups are at least clear in their objective for the country and some are truthful in their political ideology. On the left there are the in-you-face groups … from BLM = Marxist, Bernie Sanders = socialism … and the “idea” group called ANTIFA (reference to Biden only recognizing them as an idea). Equally vocal, but usually less violent are the Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Hollywood big money elites, along with career government bureaucrats, leftist educators, environmentalists and globalists. There is overlap, but if you align best with these groups, you’ll probably support the Democrat’s platform that sees America as unfair, racist and significantly flawed.
To correct this injustice, the left needs political power to make constitutional and policy changes. Only then can they restrain citizens from making their own decisions aligned with their beliefs or advantageous to their careers or businesses. Only a bigger and a more dictatorial central government can do this, so more control is what they need. Instead of the Power to the People slogan from the 1960s … the left wants more power in the Federal government so they can control people.
Personal liberty and freedom are casualties in bigger and centralized government. The “groups” of people on the right opposed to a larger central government tend to support President Trump (he does A LOT with the the power he already is granted as President). For the most part, his supporters, and those likely pinching their nose to vote for him, do not want to see American’s individual rights siphoned away. They prefer free enterprise capitalism … operating fairly within our anti-monopoly laws …as opposed to socialism (government owned) or just more government regulated business (traditional liberal left). Those on the right believe lower taxes restricts government growth and in turn keeps them less intrusive in our everyday lives. If you want more services from government, vote for them locally. Conservatives on the right believe keeping taxes low also stimulates our economy by letting people chose where to spend their money rather then Washington DC bureaucrats spending it.
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now being openly squelched and censored if they don’t conform to their ideology. An individuals freedom and liberty is openly under attack and yet many Americans seem willing to let it happen, so as long is it fits their political view. 
