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Scat said:
Unless it is a stupid, meaningless post I simply avoid posting in political threads anymore. It is not worth the aggravation of being condescended and belittled by any jackhole that disagrees with me. FYI, there are a lot of jackholes on jazzfanz. On both sides.
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<---jackhole, checking in!
 
str8line said:
How many of you mirror or are primarily influenced by your parents political views? How many have opposite political stances?
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My mother was a pretty liberal Democrat, my father was a libertarian. So I guess I mostly fall-in. They both served in the military (That's where they met) and I followed them in that as well.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
It is hard for me to understand this sort of thinking. The Dems are already way too far left. What we need is to come to agreement in the middle, not to move farther to either extreme.
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See my biggest problem is this whole “the Dems are” stuff. You are generalizing millions of people under one blanket statement of being way too far left. Isnt it possible that some democrats are not way too far left?
 
fishonjazz said:
See my biggest problem is this whole “the Dems are” stuff. You are generalizing millions of people under one blanket statement of being way too far left. Isnt it possible that some democrats are not way too far left?
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This. My wife identifies as democrat and even though I have always been registered as independent, I identify more with republicans. That said it is amazing how much we agree with each other on the issues.
 
str8line said:
How many of you mirror or are primarily influenced by your parents political views? How many have opposite political stances?
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I would say my father leans Democrat but mostly doesn't give a **** or think about it that much. My mother has always voted Republican and I'm fairly sure that she begrudgingly voted for Trump.
 
str8line said:
How many of you mirror or are primarily influenced by your parents political views? How many have opposite political stances?
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Socially I am very different than my parents. On issues like finance and world affairs I’m far more similar.

But they’ve both been gone for several years.
 
fishonjazz said:
See my biggest problem is this whole “the Dems are” stuff. You are generalizing millions of people under one blanket statement of being way too far left. Isnt it possible that some democrats are not way too far left?
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Bingo, good call Fish.
 
♪alt13 said:
@colton is a moderate Republican (straight up Republican 3 years ago)
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Fwiw I've called myself a moderate Republican multiple times on this site over the years. When I was a teenager in Maryland I would have said just Republican, but when I moved to Utah for college I realized I was WAY more moderate than the Utah Republicans were. I probably have gotten slightly more moderate since moving back to Utah 11 years ago. I haven't changed my views too much in the past 3 years, although being very anti Trump I have been feeling towards the Republicans a bit like Reagan felt towards the Democrats (he was originally a Democrat), something like "I haven't moved away from them, they have moved away from me." And I proudly voted third party this past presidential election.

Depending on what the Mueller probe concludes and how the Republicans in Congress respond to it, I may take the plunge and register as an independent. We'll see.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
I had a camping trip after high school I remember some details vividly. We were more on a ridge and we look down to other campsites. Some had set up a volleyball net and someone down there was blasting really obnoxious music. Bunch of us found a felled tree that some decided to carve a bench out of. We discussed philosophy and I remembered that conversation leading me to really dislike philosophy as a whole. I had an honest conversation with an ex-girlfriend that made me feel better but her worse.

I don't remember if it was the summer after high school, the year after, or the year after that.
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You think your pleasant day of camping compares to Ford being sexually assaulted by two drunken teenagers?
 
Scat said:
Do you realize how many people here think poorly of your wife now, even though they have never met her?
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Do you realize how little i would think of what you think ?

lighten up dude, was kidding nobody could make trump look like that you goose. but she is very conservative.
 
Douchebag K said:
Do you realize how little i would think of what you think ?

lighten up dude, was kidding nobody could make trump look like that you goose. but she is very conservative.
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And yet I doubt she’s any of the things conservatives are called lately.

Huh, weird.
 
Here's a statement released tonight from one of Kavanaugh's college roommates, and a friend of the second accuser, Deborah Ramirez. Make of it what you will, I found in eloquent and a strong argument for keeping Kavanaugh off the court. The senators get to read the FBI report Thursday, they vote Friday, I don't believe this man was interviewed, although Kavanaugh talked about him in his testimony last Thursday.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/brett-kavanaugh-college-roommate-jamie-roche.html

And here's to the partisan in us, of whatever stripe. Sometimes you get to fight revolutions, sometimes you offer resistance...

 
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