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Yes, I do think your willfully ignorant of you ignore the history of civil unrest and just plain bad behavior toward various administrations to declare that Trump’s administration has been treated so much worse than any previous administration. Reagan and Jim Brady were shot. Bush had people protesting outside his Texas ranch for his decision regarding Iraq. Scooter Libby outed a CIA agent because she didn’t agree with his policies. O’bama was regularly hung in effigy and he and his family were regularly compared to apes. The civil rights era as a whole. The assasination of JFK and Robert Kennedy. This administration hasn’t been treated any worse than administrations before them.

I will also say that it was wrong of Sarah Sanders to use her official twitter account to complain about the restaurant and to name it.

So in my opinion, both sides are being ridiculous. We better figure out how to get off this train (pun intended) before someone gets hurt. I worry that all this will led to physical violence and that is not ok.

I think when you’ve got such a big reaction/actions over on one side, you are going to get just as big reactions/actions on the other side. I think hat both sides at this point think hat the big reactions are needed to combat the others actions, if that makes any sense? I am not condoning ANY of this at all, just pointing out what I think is happening. It’s messy on both sides, and we don’t seem to know how to compromise anymore. It’s become All or nothing, so we get all this explosive crap.

A thousand times this. The leader of our country is repeatedly, purposefully inciting fear and hate, and he is using inflammatory language and lies to do so. Most of the members of his party are sitting quietly by watching it happen, if not adding to it themselves. And we are surprised a country in chaos is the result? The Office of the President is where we should be able to look for guidance in times of crisis, instead it is leading the charge in the opposite direction.

Interesting info...but I wasn't referring to Trump, personally, when I quoted the above. I was referring to our debt as a nation and what it means for our (national) future.

I think there is a possibility you are giving him too much credit. In my opinion a lot of people on the left are feeding on each other's fears real or imagined.  And of course, then calling him every name in the book--and from what I've read, they are making their own books of names I've never heard of--but they sound pretty bad!  

Try this one 

Sorry I should have said that the behavior starts at the top, or many are following the leader and his bad behavior.  Too many think if he can do it, why can't I?  He gets away with it, me too..  There is no excuse for any of it.  It is called personal responsibility.  

Fine people on both sides...  some not so fine on all sides!

I do think there is a difference in denying service to an individual vs denying service to a class of people when you are a place of public accommodation. That said, I don’t support denying service in either case.

Or ok with the billboard telling liberals to just keep driving and leave the great state of Texas.

That is a very good point. Something for me to think about, thanks.

The USA debt has been growing for YEARS and years.  It's incredible they can still be adding more to it.  It's going to hit the fan one of these days. Probably sooner than later.  

I am interested more on your thoughts on this. Can you elaborate?

I'm studying various aspects of the Civil War - i.e., the Civil War from the perspective of many diverse individuals and their families.

I'm trying to find out about a near ancestor of mine. It's important to me to find out about my father's grandmother for personal reasons. Because there are wickedly long generations on that side, she lived and died before there was much paperwork and virtually none has been found on her.

So, I took a DNA test, and had my mother tested as well to be able to rule out matches. 

I'm looking for any commonalities between matches that must go back to the early 1800's, late 1700's so that means mapping out a lot of other people's trees. Even though I grew up in the north, I have groups of matches that were all in the south and everything about their lives differs from my immediate family drastically. It's a struggle for me every time I see that CSA (Confederate States of America - the rebels of the Civil War) pop up.

I've studied quite a number of southern families. I finally found some empathy for anyone who fought for the Confederacy when I studied several families from Texas before, during and after the Civil War.

When I got to the Civil War in Missouri, my perspective changed yet again. Living there at that time must have been brutal. Since Missouri was both a slave state and still part of the Union, the state was terribly divided. It was a very dangerous time and place to live no matter what you believed in.



I've learned that it's really, really, really easy to categorize people and assume you understand their beliefs, their way of life even, without ever taking the trouble to actually learn about them.

But when you do learn about them, as individuals, you may confirm what you always thought, and/or you may learn things that touch your heart and change everything you always thought you knew about people on a personal level.





This hysteria from the left - and yes, I do mean hysteria with all the emotional drama that entails - is so damaging.

This banner of moral superiority that they hold forth as they go headlong into battle hasn't been properly earned. They are not morally superior. They were not innocent during our last presidential election. The motives to take down our current president are not as pure as the rhetoric implores us to believe.

This is the same party that put economic prosperity based on the enslavement of an entire race above the dignity of the human soul.

This is the same party that created the Ku Klux Klan in order to keep down those people of color who were freed by emancipation.

This is the same party who in this last presidential election hung their hopes and dreams on a woman who had more properly earned the right to a trial by her peers in a felony court than a national election for president.

This is the same party ripping babies out of their mother's wombs while they gnash their teeth over children being temporarily separated from their mothers, coyotes, and other odious persons at our border.



Donald Trump is not a gentleman. He is crude and he is obnoxious. Those who hate him are not gentle. They too are crude and obnoxious. And when they rally beneath the banner of moral superiority to try to oust the duly elected and seated President of the United States of America when they are in fact, not morally superior, they are creating a very deep divide amongst us.

The 4 bloody years of the American Civil War were set off by the firing on US troops at Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay by the Confederates who were resisting compliance with the rule of the United States.

Not so different now.

We have federal laws that define how we regulate our borders. They create sanctuary cities and march for no borders.

We have federal laws intended to create a safe and regulated method for immigrants to enter our country as well as a pathway to becoming legal citizens of the United States. They want people who sneak into the country for whatever reason to be given all the rights and privileges of those who earned those rights through our legal methods. To emphasize this, a concerted effort is made to never distinguish between legal and illegal immigration.



They are proudly resisting. Again.

Yes, there is great civil unrest throughout this country. Once again, it is based on a claim to moral superiority. And once again, the truth is anything but.