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I have been commenting on politics and news for months, starting with the recent Presidential campaign.  My point of view is to look at current news and attempt to distinguish between facts and fiction and also to communicate sensible comments on the absurdity of  politics today.

Americans are very polarized in their views and that polarization has been encouraged by politicians, particularly politicians in the Republican Party, for their own end.  I point to Senator Mitch McConnell who declared his goal to make President Obama a one term President back in 2008.  It is my belief that McConnell simply found the vulnerability of President Obama that he could tweak  - the racism in America that we all know reacted to an African American in the White House.  We could go back further and look at the impeachment of President Clinton.  Again, Republicans found the vulnerability of a successful President and took it as far as they could.

Simple fact - Republicans obstruct and Democrats compromise.  Republicans in Congress stonewalled every reasonable action put forward by democrats, culminating in their refusal to confirm President Obama's moderate Supreme Court nominee.  Republicans obstructed and then blamed the Democrats for inaction.  Huh?  Republicans want to go back to values and attitudes of a time that doesn't exist anymore while Democrats try to move the country into the twenty-first century.  It seems that the Republican Party's main value is power, while Democrats value is reason. 

Donald Trump won by promising a return to employment in industries that are dying or dead and by stoking all manner of fear and prejudice.  Actually, I predict that Trump will either decide to resign when the realities of governing confront him or he will be impeached.  Either way, we will simply face a new President who is just as frightening, maybe moreso because he is the ultimate conservative ideologue while Trump's values remain unclear.

So, I continue my blog as the Democratic Party confronts years of reactionary policies.  Please check out my pages, especially my effort to call out the many lies that are sure to continue.

Here's a sample of my take on Trump's Lies.  He declared that millions of illegals voted for Hillary Clinton.  Wow.  He scored big with that one - a two-fer of points for Trump - he manages to dismiss Clinton's 2.7 million vote popular win AND, as a bonus, casts further distress about undocumented immigrants.  Now here is a great lie - it manages to serve two purposes at once!   What a bonus!