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Ruth Weiner's avatar

This is all well and good, but I doubt it will reach ordinary, common-sense people like me. My own grown children (in their 50s and 60s) simply dismiss what I have to say. I am well educated (Ph.D in chemistry, half a dozen technical books, several awards) but anything I say is dismissed out of hand. There has to be one-on-one action. I could give examples, but I don't want to get anyone in trouble. I am a widow and live alone, and neighbors and friends with whom I socialized no longer call and socialize (with one single exception).

Standing together is important. I was slow to broadcast my new Republican sympathies, but we only have two viable political parties, and not voting or voting for a third party is useless. The best weapon is still the voting booth, if it can be protected.

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madaboutmd's avatar

Your children are missing the bounty of your wisdom. What a darn shame!

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Daily Growler's avatar

I relate to your situation, having lost most of my old friends when the Dem party concocted Russiagate and left me behind, but I respectfully disagree that the Reps are the only alternative and that voting for a third party is useless. for most of my life I believed that the Dems and Reps were the only feasible choices, and that to vote third party was to throw away one's vote. Maybe once upon a time, but no more. IMHO both parties have demonstrated their indifference to the interests and needs of the American people, and we absolutely NEED another option. Our social media overlords would not have shut out the Unity movement in fall 2019 if the ruling elites did not fear the appeal a true choice would have for many Americans.

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Sea Sentry's avatar

A new party could be the Association of Jugglers, but without limitations on money in campaigns, more transparency and term limits (politics should not be a career), we'll just have the same problems with new parties.

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james p mc grenra's avatar

Daily...good point and i see where you're coming from, but let me ask, consider all sides of politics, seems to me that one side is much more at fault...if so, the fact that we might bring along a "Third Party", would draw from the One side and incur difficulty that one can not get free from?

With 3 Parties and 10 issues, that divide might become More diverse. thanks

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Madjack's avatar

Unfortunately most children dismiss or ignore their parents. It is a sad aspect of our culture

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Dana Jumper's avatar

It's intentional programming from schools and universities. Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler, etc all did the same thing. Alienate children from parents, destroy family, religion and education as the nucleus, take over the culture.

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