I Hate Politics

@LeopoldBloom The problem is that Trump will not accept a loss, and he will exhort his cultists to violence on his behalf. He will not go willingly, and will have to be removed physically from the White House next January.

@windinhishair that’s the kind of crazy ass thinking that I was afraid we will hear.

@Driver2 Several of your gun nut cohorts on SW have not only threatened violence when Trump loses, they have promised it. And Trump threatened to contest the election last time. Don't you believe your bleach-drinking brethren?

@windinhishair their not the ones I worry about

@Driver2 Right. Because you support violence in support of Trump. You've made that clear.

@windinhishair I don’t and it’s the libs and dems who are silent about antifa and gave birth to the KKK
And that’s a fact

@Driver2 The descendants of the Dems who formed the KKK are now largely Trump supporters and Republican. And that's a fact.

It isn't libs and dems that are carrying around weapons protesting coronavirus restrictions with Trump's open support. And you don't see antifa out there. Nice try, but bogus.

@windinhishair the Republican Party was started to stop slavery and it’s wasn’t a trump supporter who shot at the republicans who were taking baseball practice.
Was it ?

@Driver2 You do know that was almost 170 years ago, right? While that is historical fact, it has no relevance to today. You should do some reading on Nixon's Southern Strategy to see what happened to Republicans and Democrats 50+ years ago.

A Democrat shot at Republicans at baseball practice and severely wounded a congressman and several others. He was arrested, charged, tried, and imprisoned as he should have been. Trump supported violent protesters at Charlottesville, including a man who drove all the way from Ohio to drive his car into a group and kill a young woman. Violence happens on both sides, but it is Republicans talking about violence to take back their country when Trump loses.

@windinhishair you cant Change history
Of course you try
Watch the Bernie bros lose their minds when the election gets closer

@Driver2 Of course you can't change history, but you can put it into proper context. Perhaps one day, you will be able to do that on your own. Keep trying.

@Driver2 History is - the parties flipped during the great realignment. Republicans were the big government liberal urban progressives, and democrats was the rural states rights bunch. Turns out, things change.

Oh and antifa bodycount - still zero. Rightoids do the lion's share of political killings in the country these days, and have for a long time.

@QuixoticSoul when did the realignment take place?

@windinhishair I know American history very well

@Driver2 You obviously don’t if you are oblivious about the realignment of the parties. Case closed.

@Driver2 Over the course of mid-20th. Teddy was really the last Republican liberal.

@QuixoticSoul please be
More specific , like within a decade

@Driver2 It was a racist response to the 1964 Civil Rights Act signed by President Johnson, so try 1965 to 1975. Look up Nixon's Southern Strategy to harness racist Republican votes in the South. It worked.

@windinhishair That was really more like a culmination of the process that started during the great depression. FDR's election was probably the point of no return, and by the time the Dixiecrats revolted, things were well unerway. The democrat party of yesteryear never would have pushed through the civil rights act - and republicans of just a few decades before wouldn't have opposed it.

@QuixoticSoul It did start earlier, but Johnson knew when he signed the bill that it would dearly cost Democrats in the South. Nixon exploited it to get elected in 1968.

@windinhishair while reading up on nixon read up on johnson too

@marybmom Good point. It helps with context.