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Hekate

(90,697 posts)
1. So you think if they change parties it will stop the death threats?
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 08:22 PM
Feb 2021

They’re getting death threats against themselves and their children.

J3AC4

(58 posts)
4. It would help our government to run a little smoother.
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 08:27 PM
Feb 2021

As far as the death threats go, If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Aristus

(66,380 posts)
2. Okay, you're new here, so maybe you haven't heard the (very, very old) news.
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 08:24 PM
Feb 2021

It's the Democratic Party (italics mine), not the Democrat Party.

We're a big tent, and we welcome even people who can't say the party's name correctly.

But it couldn't hurt to work on that. Especially since saying "Democrat Party" makes you sound like a Republican.

Aristus

(66,380 posts)
10. Sorry. Pet peeve.
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 08:40 PM
Feb 2021


It's even more peeving to know that the Republicans say it wrong deliberately to provoke a reaction. So I'm just giving them what they want.

But there are things one should not be silent about...

Bucky

(54,013 posts)
3. They're still in favor of a gun glut, billionaire tax cuts, & climate denial
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 08:25 PM
Feb 2021

The fact that they're not DTF over Trump trying to murder them doesn't exactly make them moderate or liberal

andym

(5,443 posts)
6. Just because they found Trump guilty, which he obviously was, doesn't mean their politics changed.
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 08:27 PM
Feb 2021

So why change parties?

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