Wow, I must be some kind of genius in your eyes then, Octavia, because for all but one of the 19 timers I've gotten, I knew exactly why I got it, and probably deserved it. In each case, it was a personal insult, typically based on a perceived (although usually real) lack of intelligence in the person I was replying to. I suppose that's a slur in your eyes.

If you are a Republican who never votes Democrat or you are a Democrat who never votes Republican you are the problem. Both Right & Left play identity politics. Actual government policy has become irrelevant. No wonder things are so screwed up.

Exactly. And that's why the swamp must be drained.

I was referring to the larger faction on this site, and how those that were more open to reasonable discussion have been leaving, and all that's left is mainly those who aren't here to engage, but to attack.

You're stuck using outdated demotard talking points, Octavia. The republican party, mostly due to two things, are now the party of the working class. Those two things are 1) Trump and 2) the demotards turning their back on the working class.

So trump is an everyday working man?

If you say so

Trump got most of the vote for people making over $100,000.. Biden got most of the vote for people making less than $50,000.

Republicans need that loud, braggadocious used-car salesman type character to sell their tax cuts for the rich to the poor.

You can get every bum in America to vote for you if you promise them a free handout. We all know Democrats core voters always got their hand out looking for the next person to hand them a freebie.

This is why repubs are not the party of the working class. You seem to be making my point for me.

If you mean literally homeless people, the latest figure I could find on that is only about 10% of them vote.

No, you are missing a huge portion of the democratic voting block, the people inbetween homless and working class, the welfare generation ,and the college liberals , the gender study majors that can't get a job and the people that have been brain washed to hate America . I am working class American, and things have never been harder to get by under this joke of an administration. Every time I go to work I have to keep an eye on my work truck because thugs and bums break windows to steal change. Can't even call the cops anymore, cause they don't show up.

Ah yes... Millennials / youth do tend to also vote democrat.

As far as your own personal woes, globally, inflation hurts everyone working class. According to statista-burglary & larceny both have been steadily declining from the 90's up to at least 2021. Maybe it has spiked since then idk. In any case, I guess it's time to pull yourself up by the ol' bootstraps?

Yea, people that don't have any life experience seems to vote democrat, they are still used to sucking on mommy and daddies teets and are not used to life slapping them around.. when it does they cry online about how capitalism sucks and how we need socialism. Oh trust me kid, I been pulling my own weight since I stepped out of high school, paid my own way through college and started a career while in college . When you have a food budget of 280 dollars weekly and you still run out of shit , you start thinking about all the bullshit politicans like Biden and heels up Harris is doing that directly effects us as the working class. There has been no decline in Chicago , Murders, rape, assault, and theft have been spiking outrageously for years now. #votedemocratChicago!

"Oh trust me kid, I been pulling my own weight since I stepped out of high school, paid my own way through college and started a career while in college"

And many democrats are the same. Why do you think the wealthiest counties in the US are Democrat-run? Look it up.

"There has been no decline in Chicago , Murders, rape, assault, and theft have been spiking outrageously for years now"

Then why don't republicans come in and save the day?

People get what they vote for. Chicago is a solid blue city. Big Cities are usually sources of great wealth because that is where Massive cooperations reside and banks have H.Q. and Capitalism is done ( shopping).