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I was a registered Republican during my first 25 years living here. On my return to the states in 2000 I was shocked as to what the party had become. I voted for a Democrat( Al Gore) for the first time ever. In 2004 I registered as a Democrat and voted for Barack Obama in the Democratic Senate Primary, when he was an outsider. I had the pleasure of meeting him and talking to him when he campaigned in my town prior to the November election. Can't believe that it was 20 years ago.
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It's amazing to think how far politics has sunk (it's happened here and in UK as well).
In the US, the elections used to be genuine contests between competing ideologies, well argued and between people who had their faults and who you might disagree with politically, but above all, they were clearly decent people. That moment with McCain defending Obama a standout.
What we witnessed yesterday was an utter embarrassment to the US and the world.
The MAGA cartel are not all about protecting America as their brain dead, window licking followers think they are, they're intent on bringing down democracy, tearing the country and the world apart, you can see that in what they say and how they act. It's not about doing things for their people, it's about themselves, it's about power and it's about fascism.
Defies belief how anybody with any brains thinks a vote for Trump advances the United States in any way.
The Democrats are at fault as well. Asleep at the wheel, negligent in not replacing Biden 12 months ago with a younger, energised candidate to beat Trump's brains out and call him out on his utter BS.
America has one chance at this election. One chance to not screw it up a second time, like they did in 2016.