JUburton wrote:only 69 ted cruz has ever accomplished

Harry J. Deitz Jr. was correct that we need to come together as one nation ("The voices of We the People have spoken," Reading Eagle, Nov. 13). However, he did not explain how we do that.

We need to stop putting everyone into small groups that separate us from each other, as the progressive, leftist presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have done for the last 24 years.

We need to stop looking at each other, and stop our government from looking at us, as hyphenated Americans. We should be just Americans first, foremost and always.

When we create a special interest group that gets special consideration from the government, we disassociate all those not in that group from any law or entitlement that the government bestows upon that group.

We need to stop looking at people as white, black, Latino, Asian, LGBT, Muslim, Evangelical Christian, pro-life, pro-choice, etc. Hillary Clinton came up with a new group, the Trump Deplorables. And the sad fact most people don't understand is that when they allow themselves to be put into one of these groups, it isolates them from the rest of the American populace.

We are a country of laws for everyone. We need to get back to the idea of "We the People" and away from the idea of, we the people of a special interest group that the professional politician needs to cater to for our vote to stay in office.

Wake up, America.

Charles Loose
Lower Alsace Township

Soren wrote:I know we've discussed it ad nauseum but how did such ridiculous, baseless, hateful and conspiratorial thinking become the voice of a massive subset of the American populace? It's so weird/frustrating/upsetting/terrifying.

pacino wrote:I normally put these in the Reading Eagle thread but this is explicitly political and thought it had an interesting tidbit (the rest is garbage, imo):

Harry J. Deitz Jr. was correct that we need to come together as one nation ("The voices of We the People have spoken," Reading Eagle, Nov. 13). However, he did not explain how we do that.

We need to stop putting everyone into small groups that separate us from each other, as the progressive, leftist presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have done for the last 24 years.

We need to stop looking at each other, and stop our government from looking at us, as hyphenated Americans. We should be just Americans first, foremost and always.

When we create a special interest group that gets special consideration from the government, we disassociate all those not in that group from any law or entitlement that the government bestows upon that group.

We need to stop looking at people as white, black, Latino, Asian, LGBT, Muslim, Evangelical Christian, pro-life, pro-choice, etc. Hillary Clinton came up with a new group, the Trump Deplorables. And the sad fact most people don't understand is that when they allow themselves to be put into one of these groups, it isolates them from the rest of the American populace.

We are a country of laws for everyone. We need to get back to the idea of "We the People" and away from the idea of, we the people of a special interest group that the professional politician needs to cater to for our vote to stay in office.

Wake up, America.

Charles Loose
Lower Alsace Township

George W Bush is now a leftist progressive. They've taken their deeply unpopular two-term conservative Republican president and written him off as a leftist.

PSUsarge wrote:

Soren wrote:I know we've discussed it ad nauseum but how did such ridiculous, baseless, hateful and conspiratorial thinking become the voice of a massive subset of the American populace? It's so weird/frustrating/upsetting/terrifying.

Because a massive subset of the American populace needs something/someone to blame for their plight and Trump gave them those somethings/someones in his rhetoric. Pretty simple.

Soren wrote:

PSUsarge wrote:

Soren wrote:I know we've discussed it ad nauseum but how did such ridiculous, baseless, hateful and conspiratorial thinking become the voice of a massive subset of the American populace? It's so weird/frustrating/upsetting/terrifying.

Because a massive subset of the American populace needs something/someone to blame for their plight and Trump gave them those somethings/someones in his rhetoric. Pretty simple.

Yea but like, this predates Trump. He's the end game.

The riled-up lawmakers stopped short of calling for a change in leadership, but the two-week delay conceivably gives time for a challenger to emerge and lobby for support.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D) is weighing such a challenge. The 43-year-old Ohioan said Democrats need more regional diversity in leadership to appeal to a broader swath of the electorate — particularly the rural working-class voters whose steady shift toward Republicans in recent cycles helped lift Donald Trump to victory.

States like Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin “don’t have a lot of representation” relative to the coastal states, Ryan said.

“We lost those voters and we’ve gotta find a way to get them back in, and that starts with a message that resonates in the flyover states,” he said.

Ryan declined to say if he’d launch a leadership challenge, saying the first step in any decision was to delay the elections.

“We’re all having a conversation,” he said.

Pelosi would be the heavy favorite if a challenger emerged. She’s been Democratic leader since 2003, and her rise to Speaker in 2007 made her the most powerful elected woman in the nation’s history. She’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the party — money that trickles down to scores of rank-and-file members — and her reputation for uniting the party is unmatched.

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, in his first remarks since the American election, has called President-elect Donald J. Trump “a natural ally, together with the Russians, Iranians and many other countries” in the struggle against terrorism.

JFLNYC wrote:Is it possible Trump is the Anti-Christ? Just trying to put the best face possible on all this.