Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "Mass Exodus of Former Republicans from MAGA Party HEATS UP and HERE’s WHY" video.

  1. In 1980 when that clip was taped (literally, on magnetic tape as digital didn't become a consumer thing until 2 years or so later), I was still in the 9th grade and if memory serves, went Republican as both parents were. Over time, we migrated to the left and went mostly Democrat and that decision was in the early 90's and we have not looked back, but I recall the earliest discussion with my now late father many years ago while out at McChord AFB one day we were in the car as we were out doing some errands, with Mom maybe in the BX but I recall we had a talk and while we both disliked what the Dem's were doing (no backbone), we still felt they were better than the Republicans as they were at that time, running roughshod over the Dem's. That was around the time we switched. Fast forward to 2007, we've had the Dot com rise and bust, then the housing rise and its fall, then I recall driving home from work one day, Jerry Falwell Sr had just died and I was listening to NPR's Evening Edition on the radio when the announcement that Jerry Sr had just died and the host saying he gave rise to the Christian right (Evangelicals and Fundamentalists) and the Republican party fell into bed with them 40 years earlier (1977 or so). The party has now gotten much worse. Lauren Beabert has got it all wrong when she claims the left is authoritarian, when in fact, it's the right that is authoritarian, the left is totalitarian. Both political extremes have the same goals (to rule the world), but go at it differently, but with the same goal in mind, The left through atheism, the right through the Christian Evangelicals but in the end, do it MY way or the highway with no compromises (Fundamentalism, with Evangelicals at least willing to compromise, some). These days, I consider myself a centrist that does lean more left than right. But absolutely abhor the extremes on either political side. Just need to have read both Animal Farm and 1984 to see exactly that. BTW, recall Dessert Storm/shield wars and the draw down. I distinctly recall seeing the videos of the war while jobs here at home were hard to come by. I never liked either Bushes, but young George "Dubya" was likely the dimmest bulb in the Bush clan and benign overall and left the economy in shambles during the housing bubble and it's subsequent bursting, leaving Obama to do the cleanup. These days, I will not even vote for the right side anymore as they are so infiltrated with crooks, liars and cheats, like Santos, but if you are an extremist, I will not vote for you, at all, regardless of the left or right affiliation.
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  2.  @katherinejones8022  Note I said, the EXTREMES OF BOTH SIDES (radical). To be fair, the left for a long time (Dems) were weak kneed and let the Republicans run rough shod over them and thus were ineffective for a long time, but even that was often preferable to what the Republicans were doing. I read of the radical left and how they tried to push the narrative of the Vietnam war back in the 60's and in the end, while the war ultimately did end, their ideals didn't make it really far at all, and only further agitated the conservatives and thus may have been what has lead to the political climate we have today. The extremists are bad, regardless of which side of the political isle they are on, thus extremists are like radicals as they won't stop until they get what they want, even if it means violence. I did not vote for Sanders let alone Warren, but did like her more than Sanders, but did go for Biden. I have found Sanders not to my liking but DO agree that he was nothing of what Trump ultimately did. There was a candidate whom I can't recall but do recall his platform was all over the place and none of it made any sense and if memory serves, was too left (Not Sanders that I recall) even he was nothing like Trump and I feel we can't indict him fast enough, but suspect he will before mid year most likely, along with the Maga/insurrectionists as well.
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