OK Ele. Why tell me that? I don't understand people who waste time telling me they don't care or say "who cares"?. Really. I get nothing from it. What did you get from it? Thank you for your reply and Happy Wednesday! :)
Midterms I usually don't give a rat's rear end about, that part of US politics doesn't affect the rest of the world much and thus doesn't concern me as a non-American. Leap year elections do, as you guys are electing "the leader of the free world". This time, I'm interested - if Trump hangs on that long. I want to see the expression on his face when no Republican candidate can get elected dogcatcher even in the reddest of red states.
I can hardly wait. We vote every election including in primaries Sbf. We don't start/stop being citizens. We are citizens 24/7 so we feel obligated to participate. 2018 will be a he** of a good year and what 2020 will bring makes my heart sing! Thank you for your thoughtful reply! :)
Here's the good news honey. it could not possibly be worse than what we had in 2016. I promise you that. We got the scum at the bottom of the barrel. If I'm wrong and we get nothing but scum again remind me of my promise and I shall apologize to you. Profusely! I'm serious! Thank you for your reply Spunky! :)
I hear you, Rosie. When I think that we get what we vote for, I realize that it isn't our fault - the choices we are given is the problem. Happy Wednesday. :)
How do you want it to be HarryD? What is your preference and why? Were you pro-Brexit? Wasn't that somewhat a populist/nationalist thing to do? Do you think it was the RIGHT thing to do? Thank you for your reply and Happy Wednesday! :)
I voted to stay in the EU, Rosie. The decision to leave was certainly a nationalist, and somewhat xenophobic, idea. Someone was putting little, laminated notices through people's doors round here, saying "leave the EU. No more Polish vermin." I'm sure there were people who voted leave for other reasons, but not most of them. I don't like the direction Cameron and May took the Conservative party, all they seem to do now is clobber the poor, and I have never favoured Labour. Jeremy Corbyn says many things I prefer to what the Conservatives propose, but he is too old-Labour for my liking, talking of re-nationalising the railways, and repealing the Trade's Union's Act, which Thatcher brought in during the eighties. All that the act does is force the unions to be democratically accountable to their members. It speaks volumes that they had to be forced to do that. Also, I don't believe Corbyn can be trusted to practice what he preaches. Since he became leader, Labour has had a problem with anti-semitism, which he just didn't get to grips with. He went to an event to commemorate when people protested against Oswald Mosley's British Fascist Party back in the day, but he won't expel the anti-semites from his own party today. Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone was just suspended for a year, then suspended for a further year. There have been fifty Labour MPs and counselors suspended for this. If he doesn't practice what he preaches on anti-semitism, why should anyone believe he will genuinely help the poor, the workers, the disabled? Corbyn is also a weak leader, and Labour are not even a good opposition. The way our system works, we need a strong opposition. I will be voting Liberal Democrat. I don't feel I could vote for anyone else with a clear conscience. The Conservatives will win, both nationally and locally, but this is about my values, not backing the winner.
Randy D 