Sorry dude, your "both sides are the same" crap doesn't fly with people who believe in American values. We find it anti-democracy and dangerous.
Tom
Maybe that "both sides are the same" crap doesn't fly with people who have different ideas, too.
I sure do know that the GOP has manipulated evangelical Christians into supporting their endless white Supremacishet agenda. They have been chipping away at the social safety net since FDR first set it up. Catholics and evangelical Protestants teamed up with oligarchs to write The Wedge Document, then Project 2025, and it's been Teabagger nonsense this whole time, and all the way back to the Jim Crow era. They're not into sharing.
I'm so glad that Kamala Harris, not Joe Biden, is the (presumptive and expected) Democrat candidate for President, I mean, thrilled, in a lot of ways. I am disgusted by her $6000 per child income tax credit, because the poorest people, and disabled parents, do not have taxable income, and have no reason to file an income tax return. These families struggle more. I am the disabled mother whose Social Security insurance payments were not taxable as income, yet, represented a dollar amount high enough to exclude me AND MY TWO KIDS from paying less overall than our better-off peers who had taxable incomes, and received tax returns.
ANYWAY. I am also very very very very happy and in 100% agreement with the Harris campaign's choice of Tim Walz, not Josh Shapiro, to be the Democrats' Vice-Presidential candidate. He's great! omg he's awesome on all the issues I've heard so far. AND NO SCHOOL VOUCHERS.
Josh Shapiro, aka Governor Cotton Candy, aka Governor Yellow Lines (the MIDDLE of the road), would have been a terrible pick, for so many reasons that I'm surprised but not surprised that he was even being considered. Fact is, there is no guarantee that having Shapiro as Veep would help the Democrats win Pennsylvania, aka Pennsyltucky.
BUT, but, what scares me is Shapiro's support from Republicans. I don't agree that it's desirable to "meet them halfway;" I never did. I've always been appalled by the Democrats who loudly insist that it's important to appeal to "the Right," I use that term loosely. Like, what the heck, discotheque? What's the deal, Castille? WHY NOT try to appeal to, you know, the LEFT?? oh gosh, what an idea.
So, I feel super-confident that Trump and Vance will dig their own little shallow dirt-holes, while Harris and Walz do that unity thing that Barack Obama had abandoned by his 6th month in office. I remember it was 6 months because that's when I tore Obama's picture off my wall.
I do not feel confident at all that Trump will ever see the inside of a jail cell. I have $5 on Not Gonna Happen.