Posted on 09/03/2019 7:19:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Doug Ogden doesn’t know what to do.
The 75-year-old retired law enforcement officer is disgusted by President Donald Trump. But he can’t imagine voting for a Democrat in 2020, either. A self-described independent in South Carolina, Ogden doesn’t recognize the modern-day Democratic Party.
“The state of the Democratic Party is wild against wilder,” says Ogden, standing with his arms crossed at a recent town hall meeting for Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg. “It scares me.”
At the core of Ogden’s concern is a broader question about the direction of the Democratic Party and its values in the age of Trump. While Democrats are united in their fierce opposition to the Republican president, most party leaders agree that Democrats will not reclaim the White House simply by running against him; they must give people something to vote for.
But nine months into the first year of the 2020 campaign season, Democrats are no closer to resolving the big questions dividing their party by race, generation and ideology than they were on the day of Trump’s inauguration. And as the campaign enters a new heightened phase after Labor Day when far more voters begin paying closer attention, there is increasing pressure on Democrats to answer the questions behind their extended identity crisis. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Their candidates’ ‘platform’ reminds me of the kid in the candy store
When you don’t know what you want, you want EVERTHING!
“The 75-year-old retired law enforcement officer is disgusted by President Donald Trump.”
AP had to dig pretty hard to find this guy bank it.
The article seems to make little effort to explain the disgust. I guess the media expects people to nod like sheep and say "Of course. All decent people are disgusted by him."
If only these news reports would ask "why are you disgusted with Trump".? I would like to know how these people think. Always good to know your enemy.
Well-stated. BUMP!
Antifa, the latest terror arm of the democrat party, likes to use this chant.
“No border, no wall! No USA at all!”
I think that cristalizes the democrat party platform perfectly.
What exactly is he disgusted with regarding Trump?
He would do well to stop listening to the garbage media.
Here’s a guy who is retired LE toying with the idea of voting for the most anti-cop party in history. He should be disgusted with himself.
The democrat party is people who don’t so sex the right way, have chopped off some organs, hate this country, are plotting to destroy this country, want to take money from Whitey, want to eliminate Christianity, want to seize private property, want to suppress free speech, want to take guns from non-violent people, and want to eliminate the borders.
As far as identity and issues, the Democrats have decided to take the most extreme positions on everything.
On immigration, or illegals, they favor open borders.
They favor socialized medicine.
They all favor extreme measures to fight the alleged crisis of global warming. The only nuance is how far any Democrat will go in the extreme actions they want to take.
They favor abortion up to the date of birth; they oppose any restrictions.
They want to ban all guns from law abiding people.
They want 70% tax rates, to be “fair”. Everything is “unfair” to them.
They want reparations for slavery. They say they are just wanting to have a study of the subject, but that is the camel’s nose in the tent. There’s no way some commission studying slave reparations will come back and recommend that NO actions be taken.
Pick some other issues, and I’m sure you will find Democrats at the most extreme left end of that issue.
The Democrat party is about hate.
This cycle its hate of Trump. No policy, solutions, nothing. Just hate of Trump in the final analysis.
I’m pretty disgusted by a former LEO that wants illegal aliens overrunning the country.
>>Here’s a guy who is retired LE toying with the idea of voting for the most anti-cop party in history.
That he’s ACTUALLY a retired cop is an ASSUMPTION. Leftists lie about their background all the time.
You can bank on this to: they found a supposed law-enforcement retiree; but what they really found was a retired law-enforcement bureaucrat. All bureaucrats are disgusted by Trump. I’m glad they found one that’s also disgusted with the slate from the other side
I cannot imagine going through life like this idiot. I'll bet he will remain "undecided" until he goes to the polls.
We had an article posted the other day that was one of the best in a long time, IMHO. About how it isn’t “War” until one side fights back. While we have been talking about The Culture War for decades the GOP never seriously lifted a finger to fight it. “We can’t until we have the House...”. “We can’t until we have the Senate...”. “We can’t until we have the PResidency...”. Well, we handed them all three and we alll have watched how they botched that. Trump really is the first to “fight back” which is why they hate him so much. After seeing what a fighter looks like we aren’t going to settle for another Romney or McLame.
Identity crisis: no matter how much they wash and scrub their faces the Hammer and Sickle shows through again.
No help or support whatsoever from his party.
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