Its a good thing modern day Dems weren't around during the Boston Tea Party

You're arguing to argue which at this point sounds like rambling since you're off-topic and all over the place.

Fact is that the colonists spread to new territories after defeating the British and its "Royal Proclamation of 1763". They had no problem attracting immigrants to help populate land.

Fact is that the colonists were NOT united against the British. Some regions even went to war with each other. Quakers, Amish, Mennonites, etc. were pacifists and Loyalists who lived in regions that didn't fight during the Revolution.

Fact is that New York City was financially successful and the center of trade and commerce. It became the capital of the U.S. in 1785.

New York City's population increased from 22,000 to 33,000 during the war because Loyalists from other states fled or came to fight. There were also 24,000 British soldiers who had defeated Washington. Half the population left after Britain's defeat for Britain and Canada.

Fact is many of the states I named were part of Mexico.

Fact is the U.S. economy relied on slavery especially in the South.

You watched too many Tarzan movies. No, they weren't "enslaved, imprisoned, sold" by their "own tribal leaders". I'm positive that you have no idea how offensive, stereotyped, racist and incorrect your comment is. I suggest instead of being a slavery apologist, you open an African history book and learn.

Fact is some African slaves were still literate no matter how much you wish to malign Timbuktu.

You can type more by editing your previous post. Sometimes it's buggy where it limits a certain amount then allowing more later on. For other reasons it could be by years on MC and post count.

Walls of text indicate, maybe not intelligence, but extensive book learning and contemplation. I'm not willing to conform to the world post-social-media where there are character limits—whether enforced or not. My thoughts are essay-length, because that's what I read. There seems to be tons of regulars here trying to get their daily fix for politics, but in my eyes, no one is saying anything of substance. It's all surface level with no deeper analysis.

I'm also not here to make friends, and I will never obtain the kind of post history as some of you guys & gals.

The first thing I'd say to anyone in discussion about politics is to look at what the politicians do, rather than what they say. You have a 1975 quote from Reagan on here about liberals trending toward fascism. It's no hard task, or great feat of leadership to string together words in a dishonest sentence. If you want to hang your hat on this Reagan quote and hope for it to echo into eternity, then you are one sad individual.

By strict definition, neither party is fascist, really, but nobody in their right mind is gonna look at Reagan's two terms and then say that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were more fascistic. Reagan's running mate was the former head of the CIA, and former agent himself. He also let Howard Hunt, also CIA, into the Nixon White House. Later, they were engaging in imperial-level shit all over Central America. Funding right-wing coups with the profits made from gun-running in Iran—a terrorist nation. They built up the Military Industrial Complex to an absurd level.

They do this to corner the market on the vote-tally. Those who have fascistic tendencies are already going to vote for Reagan, Bush and Trump over their opponents. However, if they can also redirect and portray the Democrats as fascistic then the low-information voters on the fence who don't like that sort of thing may either stay home or vote the other way by ignorance. Accuse others of what you are. Trump used this playbook immensely.

Trump seemed to portray himself as leader of the freedom-loving, Christian conservative party, and Law & Order president. He's a straight up criminal grifter, sexual predator and philanderer, and will likely soon be imprisoned as several of his appointees have already. His history of this was all known for decades, particularly by New Yorkers. He, therefore, managed to get a hefty criminally-minded degenerate vote who paid attention, and then also support from straight-laced idiots who watch The 700 Club and Huckabee. The latter would be embarrassed to be in the same room as someone like Stormy Daniels, I'm sure.

When Clinton banged interns... it was the same thing. He & Gore had nothing to lose by it, and everything to gain. These are socially conservative intellectuals from Arkansas and Tennessee. I have little doubt that Bill & Hillary Clinton probably have a vanilla love-life the same as Mike & Karen Pence. Bill played up the hip, saxophone-playing party animal attributes so that he can obtain/keep similar-minded voters who soured on the Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale-type Democratic campaigns. Turned out that voters wanted candidates as flawed as they are.

I also think Hunter Biden and his hit-the-skids/drug-addled videos, and the "laptop" story are all self-imposed fiction. It HELPS his dad with voters, not hinders. Liberals under Biden, particularly in academia, have been adopting somewhat more of an authoritarian mindset as of late, and you seem to be picking up on that. Perhaps this comes in the form of Critical Race Theory "wokeism" or whatever the buzzwords are for it. However, this is a very sad post-Trump effect on society. If you don't want it, then why didn't you vote for Hillary Clinton when you had the chance? Do you really believe having someone like Trump as a backlash to Obama didn't flare up tensions regarding identity politics big-time?! Cause-and-Effect, and this must be tallied into any smart voting decision. Also, the strong-man populism that Trump adopted has now been legitimized and has to be utilized during the campaign to stay competitive. If you don't like it (and neither do I) then lets publicly try Trump in a court of law for his many financial or insurrection-based crimes. Seeing this all play out will turn the American people sour on authoritarism, perversion, moral decay—candidates will turn back to moderate, policy-driven and less flamboyant figures, and there will be less focus on all that I mentioned above... hopefully.

I want less theatricality in politics. If policy is the focus, then Americans win. This is Moviechat... so save the drama for the movies.

If you know all this and are purposely perpetuating it, then I want nothing to do with you. I'm working to tamper the polarization, not enhance it. Others seem to be looking for Civil War, part II. As a war-time veteran, it pisses me off greatly that folks would encourage that sort of thing for their own gratification.

Don’t care. Even a baby like you should be able to understand something:

There’s a difference from an individual who’s not trying to collect ghetto friends, fairies and queers, and low class, irate, promiscuous women into their life—while at the same time, wishing them the best in their communities. Democrats work for them, but Republicans don’t give a damn. That’s unacceptable and unpatriotic.

I’m in a swing county, now turned from Red to Blue since 2016, and I’m going to work to keep it that way.

A good part of my extended family has moved from New England to the Carolinas and in a couple decades the whole Eastern seaboard will be Blue—from Florida to Maine.

The MAGA party protect white-collar criminals, and their government oaths of office mean nothing to them. If you agree, then you’re on my team as far as I’m concerned. I hope you live in a swing state.

I served my country. My old CO works in the Department of Energy. Research Operation Burnt Frost. I was there!

Veterans support Biden/Harris!

What do you think of the Iran deal currently in the news?

https://moviechat.org/nm0081182/Joe-Biden/64ffbd2283b6106bd4c9c80e/6-billion-for-Iran