I get so sick of labels, when in this great country did this stuff start. I got a message from a republican friend ... this is my response ... I wish this whole business would stop with the parties .And in the 56 years I have been alive this seems to be a new trend, when did it all start anyway? Anyone know?
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Steve,
if you wish to label people don't do it to me. People are far more
complex to be slandered or place in little Ultra right wing boxes or
left wing boxes ... "humanist, liberal elites , secular facists... ya da ya da ..

That is a page out of history that doesn't deserve my time. When
any party, organization or people try to box others it is to demonize
them and that is only done to take away their rights, their rights to
free speech or to vote as they choose. In American if the majority want
something passed, if they majority want someone elected they will be
elected by due process much to the chagrin of the others. But I am
smart enough to know that every person I have met is both left
and right depending on the issue ... It is the organizations that try to paint
them into a box to steal away their free thought ... me I have none of
it. I vote on records. When I attend church, mine, or protestant if a
priest, minister, preacher or anyone start on politics when I am in
church I politely get up and leave for I am there for God not to hear
someone try to rant because others out there vote as they see just ...
Like wise I will vote along an organization line only if the record
proves they are right ... but that is a decision I do alone without
anyone's involvement ... free speech free thought made this country.
You can fall into categories and labels that demonize people
if you like, just not around me ...

Dan