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Jen's avatar

Ken, you are truly the best! Thank you so much for your incredibly thorough and critically important information. You provide a unique perspective that other media doesn't have and always bring receipts!!!

PFC Billy's avatar

I'm looking forward to the year when the RNC and DNC have to split the costs in order to afford renting space in a run down VFW hall near the slaughterhouse in Des Moines IA to hold their joint convention.

John's avatar

True that Ken. Thanks for your perspective. 🍪✨🍪

Ken Klippenstein's avatar

Thanks! Lol why the cookie emojis ?

Judy's avatar

The corporate Centrist radical that thinks taking out Trump and his administration is all that needs to happen! Maybe he should have listened to more Hasan and less to the BlueSky crowd!

Klaus's avatar

Corporate centrist radical 😂. I’m stealing that.

Susan Skinner's avatar

Increasingly lax control over who has guns. 24/7 misinformation and people glued to thier electronic devices which are monitored by the surveillance state, as politicians and their billionaire sponsors rush headlong into viciously destroying what's left of our planet's resources.. Role models take their cue from teeveee shows and video games they remember(or are) watching, violence being the preferable way to resolve "differences". Right from the top.

Of course both "parties" are involved, and the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government, all in thrall to the next fake moneymaking scheme(which always involves war). The carnage will continue.

JennyStokes's avatar

Since when did the American public know 'left' from 'right.'

They have absolutely NO idea.

................add to this neither has the UK since the Left (Labour Party) was taken over by right wing facists.

Claire Phillips's avatar

Educated everyday Americans are fed up. Legacy media has normalized the worst crimes imaginable, hanging on to sadistic war criminals' words 24/7: normalizing the hell out of armageddon type talk. It's never been good. It's exceptionally bad now.

Randy Cunningham's avatar

You anticipated one of my Rants that I have on simmer when it comes to people becoming exasperated by an obtuse political system that only responds to the rich. As far as Trump's lick spittles going hyperbolic about the left, ROFLOL has been my response. I have been an active socialist for almost fifty years and I am constantly amazed at the conservative who think we have the country under our spell. It reminds me of how as children we used to laugh at elephants being terrified by mice.

kathleen quinn's avatar

Great article and great headline. Describes everybody I know in my educated, very well-fed, dutifully taxpaying world. Fortunately none of us own guns.

Edward Truncale's avatar

I have been a proponent of the need for a third party for years. We need the middle of the road party. The Common Sense party for the 50% in the middle. That would leave the other two parties with only 25% each. Actually as it stands Independent voters accounted for 34% of the voters. Just need to grab one quarter of Republicans and Democrats each and we are there.

JennyStokes's avatar

Yeah........great. ANOTHER 'middle of the road' Party!

Brian Keaney's avatar

“… ‘who are living in a world of unreality, bombarded by conspiracy theories, who decide that they have to take violent action.’” You mean like all those who attacked the Capitol on January 6?

Klaus's avatar

The term Far Left would be an appropriate characterization by some definitions, but that is not even a remotely accurate label for the Democratic Party.

JennyStokes's avatar

Europe and Western Nation know what the 'left' is but it seems the US does not!

Klaus's avatar

Like they often say: Europe’s conservatives are to the left of the US Congressional Democrats.

JennyStokes's avatar

Hello Klaus. I live in France and to be honest I did think this BUT much has changed in ERP

Now we have so many 'so called' leftists parties who move to the centre. Which is to me like 'sitting on a fence' and doing nothing.

I have been a TRUE Socialist all my life which means: Healthcare/schooling/decent education and looking after the poor.

In France nobody seems to care.

JennyStokes's avatar

Correct but what can you expect from an uneducated country?

I lived there for nearly 20yrs. Money rules the USA

Gili Chupak's avatar

Sorry, but this is a weak argument. Being highly critical of the Democrats and other far right politicians puts him squarely left of center.

Mike H's avatar

This is one-dimensional thinking.