1: How can you, as an Atheist, not appreciate the danger in being taken over by Theocrats? They are exactly, exactly, what the Taliban is and it pains me that an Atheist would not see this as our largest national threat.

@Ciravolostone Apologies. To answer the only question you asked: from a conservative viewpoint, there would be no justification for reversing civil rights improvements.

@rainmanjr Yes. The theocrats are becoming EXACTLY what the founding fathers were fleeing from. It grinds my gears that they will speak about founding fathers and what this country was built in in one breath and use the bible to back their stance in the next.

@Ciravolostone But the biggest reason to reject the GOP is their stance on religion. That is enough, boy fella. Keep your hug and just go do something to yourself.

I'm packing w you

Turdeau and Trump. Two winners.

@OlderMusicGeek cold puts out fire lol

@OlderMusicGeek, @PBuck0145 how dare you compare the two

@OlderMusicGeek The cold had a good deal to do with their developments. People have to rely on each other to make it through such Winters. That became their politics and it’s worked. Partially, maybe mostly, because they’ve not had to fund massive army’s. There is some logic in the idea that we created them and, now, they’re lower prices (due to the company no longer having to provide medical or educational benefits) have created a trade mess. We really can’t win.

@LadyAlyxandrea Neither can be trusted to keep their promises.

...& deep pockets filled by the oil corporations, yeah he is so dreamy.

@PBuck0145
FYI You misspelled wiener.

@Ciravolostone I’ll bet there aren’t many. People have become too damned comfortable and aren’t willing to actually revolt. That would be the only remedy for the kind of (check)mate they’re (Oligarchs) waging. SMH I think we’re fucked..

@Ciravolostone IMO the first two items are social issues not mentioned in the constitution. Those issues should never have been decided by court edict. Those issues should have been addressed either by our elected delegates, by the population at large, or just left to the states.

Even if a future court overturns those two decisions the world will not end for women nor for LBGT’s. People will adapt, and they will campaign for the needed laws rather than do an end run via courts.

So far as voting, the right to vote is one of our basic rights and is protected by the constitution. I really don’t get your statement about Blacks. At no time since Reconstruction have Blacks been forbidden to vote. Requiring picture ID is not the same as forbidding anyone to vote. What decision are you expecting that will deny people the vote?

The sky is not falling.

@WilliamFleming it’s appalling how much privilege you’re oozing here. Utterly appalling. You have to be screwing with us. You cannot be for real. You write like a psychopath. Utterly unfeeling. It doesn’t affect you so you don’t give a shit? How indecent and offensive.

@FreethoughtKaty You are not addressing anything that I wrote. What Supreme Court decision are you expecting will take away people’s right to vote?

How far would you go in letting the Supreme Court take over the running of this country? The conservative position is that issues should be decided in the legislature. What do you find wrong about that? Isn’t that what democracy is about, voting?

Under no system can every faction have its own way—its impossible. The responsible course is one of mediation, compromise, and accommodation.

@Ciravolostone I am speaking of the larger demographic group, not about individuals (Bernie is over 70). However, every survey on different social topics show the over 62 demographic opposing gay marriage, interracial marriage, more pro-life and far more evangelical in their Christian beliefs, than the younger demographics. The only progressive causes the over 62 demographic seem to support is Medicare and Social Security.

@Ciravolostone I went and looked up the various surveys on this topic. First, 62 is in the Boomer group and is treated distinctly from the oldest group (73 and older). So, I was not very precise using the age 62 figure. However, in every reputable survey there is a very consistent theme. As you go up the age they become more religious and less tolerant to gay marriage. Interestingly, although this is also true with abortion rights, the differential is not as extreme. Although support for abortion goes down as you progress through the age group, it is a smaller slope. I am not trying to make statistics fit my narrative. This is pretty logical stuff. People born in 1960 were raised in a very very different environment that people raised in the 2000s.

As a conservative, I agree with your statement.

@Ciravolostone If that was directed at me, I am a bleeding heart Liberal and just giving my opinion on the Conservative brain and thinking. Of course "todays" Conservatives think that only Conservatives should be allowed to exist and participate. I do not think they have always thought that way. Just my opinion.

Same here, on all counts.

Ditto.

Too much partisan "group identity" politics. Time to return to the grass-roots. "Ordinary" Americans appear to have more wisdom than do the politicians in power.