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Okay, lets look at what the polls say voters are concerned about. One is crime, and here the GOP has a big advantage. Democrats, including Roy Cooper have a record of being soft on crime, while President Trump has delivered on reducing crime. Illegal immigration is also a big concern, and again Republicans have delivered while Democrats just make the situation worse. Illegal immigration also raises the cost of living in many areas including housing, health care, and insurance.
Inflation is a big issue, and this started galloping out of control under Biden. To really get a handle on this, we need to cut deficit spending, which is a major driver of inflation. A majority of Republicans favor such cuts while almost all Democrats oppose them.
Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 7:44 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Bob is simply a supporter of the globalists. He touches all the globalist bases. He supports the globalist open borders agenda. He supports the globalist climate agenda. He supports the globalist "woke" agenda such as radical gender ideology. Globalism is at its heart a totalitarian ideology that advocates rule by the elite. But Bob is not one of those elite, as he does not get an invitation to Davos, just one of the useful idiots of that movement.
It is also curious that he follows the lead of the globalist media in throwing around the term "extremist". To the globalist media, there is no such thing as an extremist on the left, but if you are even slightly to the right, then in their spiel, you are one. A good example is to look at German politics. To the globalist media the Left Party, which is the old East German Communist Party with a new name, is never called "extreme". Neither are the far left nutters of the Green Party. on On the other hand they constant use that label for the Alternativ fur Deutschland, whose positions on issues are essentially the same as the pre-Merkel Christian Democrats. There is little difference between the policies of the founder of the Christian Democrats, the great postwar German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and those of current AfD leader Alice Weidel. The same is true in the UK, where they fail to call the nutters of the Green Party extreme but apply that label to Nigel Farage and the Reform Party, even though Farage has essentially the same positions on issues as Sir Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. "Extremist" is a favorite buzzword of the globalists and Bob paints himself as one by throwing it around like he does.
Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 4:06 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Again, thank you for making my point.
In November, voters should consider carefully each candidate and ask, will that person work to benefit the things that are important to me? Or are they pushing a self-serving agenda that continues down the rabbit hole of outrage and division. Remember, in an election, nobody gets everything they want, anyone who tells you different can't be trusted.
Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 1:02 pm
By: big Bob
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What Big Bob considers extremism was, and is a facet of what it means to be a true patriot, which the vast majority of Democratic Socialists are not, including all of their recent presidents, and failed contenders for that office.
Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 8:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is easy to see the extremism on the left - the DSA, ANTIFA, BLM, etc. On the other hand, it recently came out that the extremists on the right, the KKK, National Socialists, white supremists, etc. all seem to be funded by the far left Southern Poverty Law Center, which is now under indictment for money laundering in that operation.
Bob, you have outed yourself on these boards repeatedly as an extremist but now you try to posture that you are not one? That is really rich. Mainstream liberalism or mainstream conservatism is NOT extremism. The DSA, on the other hand, according to a respected liberal Democrat US Senator is "deeply anti-American."
Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 4:01 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Extremism:
I purposefully stayed away from attacks on one side or the other to point out that extremism has certain characteristics and is problematic regardless of the source. As long as it's me against you, each will see the other as a whack-o and keep marching down the rabbit hole to our own detriment. History teaches us that unless enough of to push back against extremism, the outcome will be f-ing ugly.
Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 3:07 pm
By: big Bob
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Immigration policy is a good example of how Democrats have galloped to the left over the past few years. John F. Kennedy vigorously enforced our immigration laws. So did Jimmy Carter. So, even, for the most part did Barack Obama. It was only when the group that pulled the strings in the Biden regime arrived, that they put their open borders globalist ideology ahead of our immigration laws and went full bore to thwart them and deliberately flood our country with illegal aliens. Now, almost the whole Democrat Party puts even illegal aliens who have committed other crimes in our country ahead of American citizens. It is all about partisan power and their globalist open borders ideology.
Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 9:45 am
By: borderhawk
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Elon Musk did an interesting chart showing how the left in the American political spectrum just kept marching farther left to the extreme, so that Musk himself kept his same views but what had made him left of center in an earlier time now made him right of center. It was not that his positions had changed but that what the left end of the spectrum representing just kept moving farther and farther left. You can view that chart here:
external-content.duckduckgo.com
Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 7:54 am
By: John Steed
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What has happened over the past 6 or 7 decades is that the political spectrum has galloped to the left. What was a moderate position in the 1960s is now a conservative position. What is a left position today is very far to the left of what one would have been 6 or 7 decades ago. That makes the left today the extremists, and they keep getting even more extreme, as the DSA illustrates.
A good example is a campaign ad from former GOP US Senator Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts) about a decade ago. It showed John Kennedy starting an actual speech JFK gave on issues and Brown finishing it, illustrating that Brown's positions on issues were the same as JFK's had been. Another is a Republican US Senator this year introducing the exact anti-immigration bill that Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) had inteoduced decades ago. Democrats have move to the hard left to the point that the DSA chairman's comment that their goal is communism does not even phase them. Republicans now occupy the political ground that John F. Kennedy and other Democrats like him once occupied and the left now calls that "fascist". Will, you need a lot more study of American politics.
Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 7:40 am
By: John Steed
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Many are extremist. When a pendulum is pushed one way, we understand as men that it will swing back again with the same energy.
Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 11:56 pm
By: Will Simmons
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What point is that, Bob? That you are the resident extremist on this site??????
Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 6:28 pm
By: Bubba
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Thank you both for making my point
Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 4:26 pm
By: big Bob
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The left is disingenuous when it talks about "human beings" because in their ideology they always put one set of people ahead of others. That is the essence of DEI, for example. Conservatives believe in merit not the arbitrary ranking of rights based on race, sex, sexual deviency, and other categories.
The left focuses on the "rights" of the gender confused, trying to force the rest of society to accept them in the locker rooms, rest rooms, and sports teams of the other gender. The fact that doing so goose steps all over the rights and privacy of the other gender is of no concern to them. Letting boys into girls sports gives them an unfair advantage and is highly unfair to female athletes. Yes, putting illegal alien criminals ahead of American crime victims, and illegal aliens over lawfully immigrants, are other good examples. The left wants to pigeonhole people while the right sees everyone as an individual. Woke ideology is a very good example of extremism.
Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 1:15 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Any normal principled person puts law and order over criminality. The far left like "Big Bob" does not. That is why he and most Democrats put criminal illegal aliens, those who have already committed crimes in our country over American victims of those crimes, including those murdered, raped, or robbed. Putting criminals over victims is a vicious form of extremism. Yes, it is putting ideology ahead of human beings, the crime victims.
Here is a good rebuke to Democrats like "Big Bob" delivered to a Congressional committee by a black American father whose daughter was severely and permanently injured by an illegal alien who was not supposed to even be in the country: redstate.com Listen to that anguished father denounce the Democrats who let these illegal aliens in. But those of "Bib Bob's" ilk, the Democrats, also are extreme in giving a preference to those who wantonly defy our immigration laws over those on waiting lists trying to do it the right way. Putting scofflaws ahead of persons trying to do something legally is also a mark of far left extremism that permeates today's Democrat Party. The Democrats, like "Big Bob" put their open borders ideology ahead of the American victims of illegal alien crime (and indeed some illegal alien victims of illegal alien crime). They also put their open borders ideology ahead of the aspiring immigrants doing it the right way by promoting a system that allows scofflaw illegal aliens to jump in line ahead of them. Democrat politicians have openly admitted they push that agenda because they think illegal aliens will get a "pathway to citizenship" and vote for them. For Democrats it is ALL about power.
Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 12:08 pm
By: borderhawk
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Another feature of extremism (left of right):
Ideology over human beings. Extremists are willing to dehumanize others to further their ideology or world view. Today it's worse than ever. Technology allows us to sit behind a keyboard and say awful things we likely would not say in the public square. Boundaries get pushed; real people get hurt. Every extremist works off this concept of pitting one group against another.
Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 10:52 am
By: big Bob
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Accurate???? What "Big Bob" does is stereotype people. Citizens have enough to be upset about without having to "manufacture outrage". Most conservatives have some exposure to the left/liberal MSM during their days, so at least on the right, most people are hearing both sides. Those on the left, however, probably do lack exposure to sources from other perspectives.
One popular internet source of news, the RealClear site, deliberately posts articles from both sources on the left and sources on the right. It is a good way to stay up on what the other side is saying.
Commented: Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 @ 3:21 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Will: The metaphor - "I'm okay; you're okay" - does not work in today's political landscape.
If the very best politicians are not elected going forward, we may prove to 'NOT be determined to survive as a Constitution Republic.' You do remember the Vegetable Biden Administration ... Right?
Commented: Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 @ 3:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Can we not look objectively at anything anymore? I mean Big Bobs last comment was accurate
Commented: Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 @ 2:42 pm
By: Will Simmons
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Extremists defy our laws and support others who do. Normal citizens respect our laws and want to see them enforced. That includes our immigration laws. Some far left extremists not only condone illegal aliens breaking our immigration laws to sneak across the border, but it does not even upset them when those illegal aliens then start breaking our criminal laws on a wide variety of things from murder adn rape and burglary to shoplifting. Normal citizens want to see our laws enforced. Extremists like "Big Bob" do not.
Commented: Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 @ 2:27 pm
By: borderhawk
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The only "extremist" I have seen posting on this site goes by the screen name of "Big Bob". To him, if you are to the right of AOC or Bernie Sanders, his little mind tells him you are an "extremist". If Bobby really wants to see an extremist, he just has to look in a mirror.
Commented: Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 @ 1:28 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Another feature of extremism (left or right):
Manufacturing outrage. Since we tend to only access media sources we agree with, those sources, which must turn a profit, understand that the best way to increase traffic or viewership is to amplify certain points of view to keep their audience coming back for more. The truth no longer matters. It's about "clicks." Social media has perfected this method by keeping us outraged over this, that, or the other thing to the point nobody knows what's going on. We lurch from outrage to outrage as we are taken advantage of by people whose primary concern is personal gain. Every extremist knows that fear, makes them relevant.
Commented: Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 @ 1:06 pm
By: big Bob
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Thank you both for making my point.
Commented: Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 @ 12:46 pm
By: big Bob
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Big Bob, there are not enough hours in the day to outline just how Non Patriot Leftists are a huge drag on the sustainability of this Republic. Every normal American knows that.
No right thinking American believes that Illegals should be allowed to pour into our nation of laws, and then once we get lawless vegetables, like the latest Democratic Socialist Idiot, out of the office of the executive, patriotic Americans are not going to enforce our immigration codes. Big Bob: There is only one side to what is real.
Commented: Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 @ 10:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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