re: How did you develop your political beliefs?

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In what ways do you think white culture is being erase? And curious to your thoughts on what our nation looks like by following the direction you speak of.

Both serious questions

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- Tearing down Confederate monuments without any consideration for historical context is probably the most overt example in recent news. I get that the Confederacy isn't exactly a shining moment in our national history, but the monuments aren't about and were never about glorifying slavery or the systemic abuse of blacks. The sites and monuments themselves always explain that they were erected in memory of the valor and sacrifice of the soldiers defending their homeland and way of life. Protestors briefly tried to push their momentum after Charlottesville and agitated for the removal of monuments to people like Thomas Jefferson, which in my opinion showed their true colors.
And, again, it's always white history that's targeted by these things. Nobody is trying to get rid of Black History Month or replace statues of Martin Luther King.

- On that note, but a separate issue, outside of unquestionable moments of national solidarity like Pearl Harbor or 9/11, agitators in the media and among leftist politicians love to act as though there are no positives to white history and that we're nothing but racist genocidal monsters. Columbus is only remembered for his hostilities with Native Americans and not for the daring voyage across the Atlantic that led to the foundation of our country. The Confederates get reduced only to being defenders of slavery. Even now, despite the fact that white taxpayers paying for welfare are the only reason most urban black communities don't immediately collapse, the media wants you to believe that whites are still somehow oppressing blacks en masse.

- The constant pushing in the media of the idea that white people in America have "no culture" (although rarely stated explicitly in those terms) is straightforward erasure.

- And while it hasn't hit the US just yet, I did say "Western" rather than "American" specifically for a reason: the mass migration of Muslims from Africa and Southwest Asia into Europe, at a rate far faster than they could ever assimilate, is destabilizing those states and creating a growing underclass of non-Western, non-white people who have demonstrated decreasing respect and tolerance for the culture of their host countries. America might have had to face a similar issue with Hispanic migration from Mexico, were it not for us electing Trump and actually enforcing immigration laws again.

Don't get me wrong on any of this, America is a multi-ethnic society and always will be. There's always a place for anybody of any race to come here, assimilate into our shared values, and be fully American. But that means there's a place for whites as well, which means the massive media push to demonize whites at every turn is incompatible with this vision of America being for everyone.

If we went the direction I'm talking about, you would see immigration laws being respected and people of all races getting along and living and working together in far greater harmony than they are now, because they would all be working under one united vision -- the American Dream, being able to live your life how you damn well please and enjoy your freedoms and the pursuit of happiness without being constantly harassed and condemned for the actions that people who look like you committed hundreds of years ago.

Thanks. While we lean in different directions politically, I appreciate the clarity in which you detailed your view. Well thought out and communicated post.

For me it was simple. Every damn time a democrat was in office my taxes went up...period! Screw them and their social programs that only put a band aid on the problems. Get your damn hands out of my pockets!

Ive seen what liberal policies have inflicted on it's constituents. I like at the division the liberal party has caused I look at who the target bill payers are for the liberal wet dream of progressivism are. I look at how many unborn the left kills off. I look at how the left seeks to destroy the fundamental fibers that have kept this country about the rest for over 200 years. I see the confusion and pain on the LGBTQACDEFGHIJKLMNOP and how they need serious help but never find it.


The list could go on for days.

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How did you develop your political beliefs?

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Was raised a Kennedy democrat, was still a democrat when Reagan was elected, strange thing happened after I quit getting high in the mid 80's, the fog lifted and the conservative truth opened my eyes.

I knew we we in trouble when a dude with sunglasses and a saxophone showed up one night on the Arsenio Hall show and duped America into voting his azz into the White House. From that point on there was no way I would ever vote Prog/Dim again.

Compassion
Logic
World view
Observations

Vote based on
"Lesser of two evils."

Easy. It's extremely hard to support democrats when your family owns several businesses, a frick ton of land, and other sources of income that democrats want to steal from you.

Why should I have to pay more because sharkesha is a dumbfrick with 10 kids? Why should I have to pay more because Sally smoked a pack a day and eats 7,000 calories a day?

Democrats want nothing but to steal from those who work their arse off and give to the lazy. frick them.

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I was 10 when Reagan was elected. His leadership, value system and political ideology was easy to latch on to.

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Well put. I was 13 though. Otherwise the same thing.

Ayn Rand and Ron Paul. Voted Libertarian in every election since I was 18.