Love this thread. Thank you to everybody who has shared here. My list of grievances against the Democratic party is long. I live in St Louis County Missouri. I will try to be brief. There have only been Democrats elected to my local government my whole life. It was Democratic Governor Nixon who threw me off the welfare rolls for food stamps. 2008 I was not doing well. It was Gov Nixon who failed to deploy the National Guard to protect Ferguson from the protestors who set fires in the protests of 2015 that caused extensive damaged to a suburb making a bad situation worse for poor citizens; though Gov. Nixon effectively applied the National Guard to protect County assets in Clayton Mo, a ritzy suburb. Our schools lost accreditation during Gov Nixon era. Murder rates continue to climb. Assaults on people have soared. Our new democratic prosecutor is not going to prosecute child support violations or less than 100 grams of any illegal substance as possession. This part of Atty Wesley Bell's plan to make St Louis safer, and more profitable for the drug cartels. The rest of Missouri, the Republican part, does not have these violence issues.
I lost 2 cousins, Nicki and Zac both under 25 years old to Fentanyl during Obama/Biden/Clinton era. When I was under 25yo, I doubt anyone in St Charles MO had died from Fentanyl. It is much harder to stop the drug cartels now, that they have established networks including police and media in the USA. St Louis City and County also are on pace for record-setting overdose deaths this year, said Brandon Costerison of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, that follows a record 760 Opiod-related deaths in the St. Louis region in 2017. I say the victims were murdered because the many victims didn't think they were buying something that will kill them right then. St Louis is well above the national average, with up to 95 percent of our overdose deaths involving the lethal drug according to St Louis coroner.
3 Houses on my block, 2 of which i share a property line with me went into foreclosure in 2008. The house just west of me just sold for a record for my street June 2019. Our family business that almost went out of business during the Obama era, each quarter since the 2016 election has improved on the last, and just set a new stock record price today.
I am not going to base my vote on how the Kurds or any tribe in the Middle East is mistreated. I see plenty of people mistreated here in St Louis, MO. I do not pay taxes or vote to support foreign interests. I am not going to base my vote on one article from the Wall Street Journal either. If the WSJ wants to influence my vote they should unlock the article so I can read it. I don't care anymore what the media thinks. Lame Stream Media evidently doesn't care what this rich white boy thinks. I remember when the MSM told us tobacco is not addictive, and glycophosphate is not harmful. I pray you vote in your own best interests. I do not believe the Dems will do any better in the future than Dems did in the past at making life better in the USA for taxpayers, especially gay men. I have written pages on this subject that I haven't posted, I think I have already said too much here. Thank you for reading this.