There is absolutely no supporting evidence of Democrats fighting racism or Republicans supporting it.

I wasn’t doing great - just like everyone else - and then Obama took office and things got worse.

Oh my GOOOODDDD! Get out the pitchforks!!!

I was very pragmatic - I worked very hard to avoid all the things Obama did to cost my money in taxes, business, healthcare, inflation, etc.

First the Democrats didn’t “sidle” they invented the KKK and every other form of racism against blacks in this country - from Jim Crow to lynchings, to suppressing the 13th, 14 & 15th Amendment implementations, to eugenics, etc. - for 200+ years.

So.....cut off your nose to spite your face?

I get it. You’re bitter.

A free press is vital to the health of our Republic and our representative system as one of the major estates in the checks and balances of our nation.

Name one thing Hillary would have been good at - I mean beside pay for play, she’s awesome at that.

Whose apologizing?

Yeah, its almost like Obama wasn’t constantly talking about how people weren’t “listening” to him or that “his funny name” was an obstacle or tellig reporters not to make fun of his enormous ears.

“but at the end of the day, going along with an administration like Trump’s will have consequences.”

Suburbs are where all the rich people who work in the city live, because they want their kids going to “good schools” and they don’t like property values decreasing because of “undesireables.”

grew up in several myself - all about 5,000 people (as you rightly point out anything larger isn’t really a small town) - and I enjoyed them all.

I get your point about your experience and I take you at you word without reservation but, do you actually “wonder why people can espouse wonder and value to experiences and events that were traumatic for us”?

That’s why I dislike films like Harry Potter which tend to romanticize such places.

its almost like more than one type of experience is possible!

You might have been misreable growing up in the opposite environment as well.

how many small town have you experienced?

perhaps one individual’s experience isn’t enough to represent the spectrum of experiences?