Lets hear your experiences for Election 2014!

Its begun. As Drudge is terming it? "Reid unloads on President..."

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Hey, no one said this won't be entertaining to watch at times. :) 

(Rubs paws together) I sense good timing in joining the Journalistic arts with an interest to pure investigative work. Indeed..I think the coming months may give quite a lot to keep a bunny like me busy. 

I think you're right about the Republican population being split. I like to say I am conservative...but calling me a Republican can get ya hurt!

I believe there are two distinct camps in the Republicans as much as two distinct camps within the Democrats. It's all just become so much more polarized and zero-sum in how its viciously played out now.

Republicans have Conservatives and they have the Ultra Wealthy. The two CAN be the same..but often have nothing in common but basic world views. For instance, being conservative for me doesn't mean checking in my Soul at the door and losing empathy like a bad habit. It means I general favor certain ways of seeing the world and the human condition overall, with an eye toward seeing it become BETTER over time. The Ultra Wealthy that form the core of the Republican power, by contrast, may share my world views..but compassion usually ends with a red balance at the bottom of a spreadsheet. If one must be cracked to make the omelette of black numbers? So be it..Some people get cracked. That is a cold ruthlessness I'm simply not capable of, unless I go ALL the way ..and we'll never get into that area of discussion here.


Democrats..I believe..are worse for a split. There are the liberal democrats that I could have a beer with..and DID stand shoulder to shoulder with at Occupy. I don't hate democrats or liberals. In fact, I slept beside them, trusted my wife and son in camp with them, and one night before we decamped from Occupy? I faced the choice and made the decision that I would go down myself before seeing harm come to them, while i could still do anything to stop it. (One of those things that never made news outside those who lived it...but there was a short period where we had every reason to expect our camp to be destroyed by the homeless we'd been helping...and I was among the only Occupiers intelligent enough to have an honest to god weapon...which was well known by all, unfortunately).

On the other side, Democrats have among them...Progressives. Once upon a time, in ignorance, I believed Obama to be a socialist (wrong). I thought he might be a communist! (Err..Double..no,..TRIPLE wrong..since one cannot be both at the same time anyway..and NEITHER is what he is). Obama and his ilk are Progressive in the mold of Woodrow Wilson and a few other notables to have rode this nation right into the Great Depression and Dust Bowl years. (FDR got the bummer years...but his predecessors drove us into it). Progressives believe regulation will solve everything, and nationalization is NOT a good thing (scratch socialism), but Public/Private partnerships and joint efforts are as close as Government should come.....while using the leverage of that situation to regulate everyone within an inch of death itself. ...and they regulate THAT TOO, of course.

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So honestly? I don't see either side having a clear field to fire across at the other. They both have their own people fighting inward as much as outward, in what truly is a 'divided we fall' outcome playing out before our very eyes. I'd go with others who see a "Them" behind all this....but there is no room left for "Them" in the room of the Jumbo-Egos both parties bring to any table now. Just my thoughts...

** This is a reply to the end of the last page..and confusion by how it loaded in checking updates made me briefly think that had been the last one posted.. Ahh well...