Has the United States become a dictatorship?

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Having Trump for life would be a hell of a lot better than the hell on earth worthless good for nothing leftist visualize for this country.

@puck61 lol. Yeah because a mobbed up oligarch on par with Yeltsin is a good thing.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow No Proglodytes Need Apply!

[@puck61 look forward to Social Security and Medicare both gifts of us liberal leftists😊

@monte3 You ever had rock chips tear your face up?

@puck61 I am sure that makes sense, but I am unsure how... 🤔

@puck61 "Having Trump for life would be a hell of a lot better than (...)"
— How terrible! That's political treachery. You cannot be serious.

@helenS I don’t think he is actually. But I do think it is a real I thought on the far/alt right.

@monte3 @helenS All I am saying is that having Trump as president for the rest of our lives would be better than the hell on earth that so called "progressives" would usher in, if they had control.

@puck61 and I keep telling you that you should look at the evil we progressives have already done. social Security, Medicare and let’s add civil rights. I know the the Republican Party of that time supported it, let’s face time those were “rhino” Republicans. And for that matter southern Democrats opposed it, but than became Republicans!

@monte3
I saw the movie Abraham Lincoln, with Daniel Day Lewis, I think. Is it true the Democrats resisted the freeing of the slaves and their being given the vote? I thought JFK was Democrat and he tried to deliver civil rights, and was shot dead for it, his brother Bobby was also shot for it five years later. Or is my understanding wrong?

@PevRusMad in 1865 the Republicans were the progressive party, and at that time yes the Democratic Party was the party of slave owners etc. The Democrats morphed into today’s Republicans and same the other way. I am not aware of the idea that JFK and Bobbie were killed because of civil rights. What is certain is that LBJ carried on with the work, probably more competently than Jack Kennedy ever could, have and passed both landmark bills. At this time (1965ish) the south was nominally Democrat, a carry over from 100 years earlier. But by 1970 Nixon initiated his southern strategy and brought the south into the Republican fold. I hope this helps.
Abraham Lincoln with Daniel Day Lewis was a great movie 👍

@monte3 I have always made it clear that we owe a debt of gratitude to real liberals. Problem is - there aren't very many real liberals out there now. There is a horrible toxic ideology that has hijacked the title of "liberal", but it is every bit as evil as early mid 20th century fascism. More so because it could potentially do much more damage. Blue dog / yellow dog democrats don't seem to realize that they are backing the most evil ideology to rear its head in the last 5,000 years. So called "progressive" thought opens the door to every evil a human being could possibly imagine. It's time for "Good ole boy" democrats to wake up to the fact that the democrat party is dead, and has been replaced with something worse than insidious.

@helenS @monte3 Yes! I am very serious. It would be better to have Trump as president for life, than to have leftists in control of this country. If the left was to have the lions share of power, they would soon be passing out 'poop maps' for every city in the United States. The left is morally and spiritually bankrupt. As much as they would destroy our infrastructure and material/ financial management , they would also destroy intangible resources as well. It is a potentially deadly ideology. Look at Chicago and Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Seattle, etc , and then look at Nagasaki and Hiroshima and you can plainly see that "progressivism" is more destructive than nuclear bombs. If it were within my power, I would stop at nothing to cure the world of this horrid ideology.

[@puck61You say that liberals were good and acknowledge the countries debt to them , but now they have turned evil. I am seriously asking WHERE you think that happened. Where do you see the path changing. I am guessing Vietnam Nam, ken Burn’s PBS documentary makes the point that the Vietnam Nam split between protesters and those is favor is America’s second civil war. And in a fit of idiocy the Democrat party did have its McGovern moment. But I claim that dispute still being the party of the young we are not those people. Obama’s ACA was, I claim , in the same spirt as FDR’s Social Security.

@puck61 while I ageee that the unbalanced extreme ideologies of Bernie and Warren are toxic, it’s a far leap to suggest that we’d be better off with an incoherent egomaniac as the alternative.

He has made us weaker as a country.

He’s not even a Republican. His policies make no sense. He is erratic and irrational.

Frankly, I don’t know why people support him. It’s literally impossible to know where he stands other than his constant reminder that anything good that happens is because of him and anything bad that happens is someone else’s fault.