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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

As a voting system prone to misuse, voting by mail should only be allowed in limited cases, such as where a person is going to be out of town on election day (and during early voting) or unable to get to the polling place. That account of the mail ballots at the nursing home in Saxony-Anhalt is a very good example of how voting by mail can be abused.

When I worked in eastern Europe, a number of countries in that area did not allow any voting by mail. For voters physically unable to get to the polling station, they had an interesting practice of the "mobile ballot box". A person who could not get to the polls notified the election officials during the morning of election day, and in the mid afternoon, a team of election officials, along with election observers got in a car and drove a small ballot box and a stack of ballots around to all the people who had requested the mobile ballot box.

For voters who were abroad, every embassy opened a polling station for citizens to come vote. In countries with a lot of expats or large size, they also opened scattered polling stations at other sites. In recent Romanian elections, they have had the closest polling station located in Norfolk, Virginia. Recent Moldovan elections have had one polling place in North Carolina, which has moved from Raleigh to Hickory to Asheville. These extra polling stations have been organized by the embassy in cooperation with the country's central election commission.

Voting by mail should be available but only for those with a good reason to vote that way. The reason is making election fraud more difficult.

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 7:02 pm By: Steven P. Rader

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

Roy Cooper was a budding socialist before socialism was cool. North Carolina does not need that wanker in the Senate. I wish we had a stronger candidate for the GOP, but Michael Whatley will have to do. He is the only game in town now to stop Comrade Cooper.

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 3:40 pm By: John Steed

Fact:
Trump votes by mail.
Good enough for him, good enough for us.

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 2:57 pm By: big Bob

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

Mail-in voting is an engine of election fraud everywhere. A criminal investigation has been opened in Germany on mail-in vote fraud in an upcoming state election there, and already there is a smoking gun: rmx.news

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 8:14 am By: Rino Hunter

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

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

Washingtonian: I will defend the honest politicians I know well, and those that I have the acute knowledge to know from far away.

The problem that remains is we need more of us.

Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 5:51 pm By: Stan Deatherage

My Kingdom, My Kingdom for one honest politician/bureaucrat, or even an honest attorney.
Socialism is obviously not the change we need, but "the system" is broken...thoroughly.
Show me any part of the local and even state Govt that wants to "serve" WeThePeople! Everyone of them is serving themselves, and anyone who steps up to defend these self serving people mostly likely has money in the game. There is NO reason to praise any politician. Theyare NOT heroes AND they are not any smarter than the ppl here. And guess what...NOTHING said on this platform is going to reform govt. The self-serving nature is too entrenched. WE are NOT SAFE. The city is not safe! BBob if u have a plan, explain it in detail. Talk is cheap.

Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 4:26 pm By: Washingtonian