[Hoot Gibson]

Nine pages of exactly what’s wrong with our country right now, we have let a group of dirty career politicians divide us over ideas that most the time they’ve came up with for that sole reason.  It is possible, even necessary for us to have differing opinions as long as we can Respect each other enough to sit down, Listen and compromise.  They get on television, act insanely angry and ready to disenfranchise each other, then go behind closed doors and eat lunch together.  All that being said anyone who doesn’t understand how the Afghanistan withdrawal was a complete debacle needs their head checked.  The #1 priority of our military is to protect our citizens and our leadership failed miserably.  From deserting Bagram air base, which is where the withdrawal should have been completed, to leaving billions of military equipment, and American citizens behind, heads should roll.  Blindly supporting all this for the sake of a political party is asinine and if you try then it’s time to do some serious soul searching. Every single person involved in this regardless of politics is complicit but will never be held accountable because they’ve got us trained now to do exactly what they want, blame each other.

If you read posts in this forum extensively, you will find that there are four individuals that consistently lie to support President Biden and almost anybody else with a (D) after their names on ballots.

I consider myself a conservative and did not decide whether to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 until days before the election because I did not believe that he would follow through with his campaign promises because his record had been one of a liberal Democrat, IMO. However, to my surprise, Trump implemented many policies that I could support as a conservative. He also did many things that I disagreed with - but overall I believe that he made a good faith effort to keep as many of his campaign promises as possible. That said, I wish that he would not run in 2024 because I would prefer a more conservative and younger candidate.

You are right about the two parties. They both attempt to polarize the electorate to win elections. Most Republicans are not political conservatives but nearly all of them run as conservatives. Gerrymandering of House district lines has led to the election of a few extreme liberals and extreme conservatives but overall, there is not much difference between the two parties overall. I will never vote for Democrats because of the party's position on abortion, the Second Amendment, and a few other issues that are very important to me. I cannot vote for Democrats, knowing that they will vote people like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer into top leadership positions. I am no fan of Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy either but there are not enough conservatives in elected office to elect more conservative representatives into leadership positions.

I also agree with you about the withdrawal from Afghanistan. It is hard to understand how anybody could defend Joe Biden screwing up things so badly. How could anybody defend an administration that would allow Taliban terrorists to participate in security operations for an evacuation of American citizens and Green Card holders that worked for our side during the war? The withdrawal sounds like something that the writers for The Onion might have concocted.