The Reasonable Side

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I’m kind of tired of being told how naïve and dangerous a moderate left ideology is compared to extreme right ideology.  If I vote anything other than Trump Republican, I’m often accused by holier than thou conservatives that I’m voting for crime and weakness.  There is this idea on the right that if I’m not for an expensive border wall and the elimination of birthright citizenship and asylum seeking, that I’m totally in favor of being invaded by another country.  That’s not to say that the left doesn’t have their own problem with imposing straw man arguments on Republicans.  No side is without their own respective bogeymen, but it’s the Republican Bogeymen that actually seem to be the ones running things on their side.  I just feel like I’m not necessarily the one that needs to take a step back and actually listening to what the people I’m voting for are actually saying.  Take Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT).  He supports dismantling federal programs for education and interstate highways, and things unless those are removed, the Left will start a Civil War.  This isn’t me reading into vague comments or twisting context.  He actually said those things at a Lawyer’s convention.  You can watch the speech.  And yet I’m the one who’s unreasonable because I want background checks on guns and thinks we should help desperate people from other countries?

A Bigly Endorsement

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Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for his Senate bid…and I have to wonder how Romney feels about that.  I can’t imagine that Trump has suddenly become self aware, and I think he genuinely thinks that he’s maybe helping Romney.  But it’s still odd, considering how often and how fervently Romney has spoken out against Trump and his policies.  But back to Romney, I wonder if he’s going to distance himself from that endorsement or run with it.  I know he officially thanked Trump, but even in his thank you, it seemed like he was quick to pivot back away from him.  So who knows?  It will be interesting to watch though.

The Importance of Our Historical Monuments

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The Washington Post has noted that Trump has defended southern Confederate monuments as important to American history while ordering that Native American monuments in Utah be shrunk.  Some might call that hypocritical, but I’ll settle for despicable.