(08-10-2024, 04:52 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(08-10-2024, 01:01 PM)copycat Wrote: I’m a moderate now?  I knew giving up coffee was a bad idea.

Allow me to clarify. 

I am not calling you a moderate because you are in the middle. I'm grouping you in with a class of voters that don't really want to rock the boat. They are "safe" voters. 

There is a group of people on the left and right, who identify with the old guard. You have Bush and Reagan Republicans who see Trump as a threat to conservatism. You have JFK and Clinton Democrats who think the left is becoming too radical. I consider these people to be moderates... not because they are in the middle, but because they see themselves as connected to the establishment. They care more about people that are causing a disturbance to the system than they do the system is breaking. 

So long as politicians play ball and say the right thing, the people I call moderates will turn the other cheek, even if the establishment candidates are selling out Americans, and I consider the people I called out the "safe" voters. 

Moderate is not the right word, so I will retract it. I don't really have a better word for it, though.

My stance is unless you Trumpsters call him out for the stupidity he does he will lose the people he needs to win this election.  He thought of Harris negotiating with world leaders on behalf of America scares the [BLEEP] out of me which is exactly what is going to happen if Trump keeps stoking the fires with unnecessary insults.

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