Steve’s Barking; The most dangerous person for the Democrats ☠️

 Who is the person who is the most dangerous person for the Democratic Party?☠️

This is a picture of me. No I’m not the most dangerous person facing the Democratic Party! But I do represent a danger to the party. I represent the regular party person who votes for the Democrats in every election, get the signatures for the candidates and contributes to the Party! I’m also the guy who is becoming very disillusioned with the Party! If there multiple people (millions let’s say) and we vote by staying home and ignoring the party that represents a grave ⚠️ to the Democratic Party in national elections, especially when they need all the votes they can get.

Steve’s Barking; Invasion of the political party snatchers

 The Republican Party is not my uncle’s Republican Party. They have been taken over by the Tea Party.

 Now the Tea Party doesn’t believe in government except government that benefits it’s members.

 Now I heard from the head of the Tea Party of the Bronx before they took over the Republican Party.

 He said that it’s impossible to win as a third party, but being part of an existing party by taking it over is something else. I now believe like the sci fi movie invasion of the body snatchers, the Republican Party is the invasion of the Political Party.

 Now I’m starting to worry that the Democratic Party will be taken over by lunes who invade it and take it over like the Republican Party was taken over by the Tea Party.

Steve’s Barking; Trump, Warren same cloth.

 It’s no secret that the president of United States would prefer to face Senator Elizabeth Warren in the election next year because of her  perceived  socialist views.
  Now  it’s assumed that Senator Warren only collects small donations and she doesn’t take PAC money. Me being the cynical bastard that I am thinks that it is possible that Republican operatives are sending money in the name of thousands of individuals to help her win the Democratic primary.
 Now if she were to win the the Democratic primary she couldn’t take money from the Democratic  Committee because it takes money from wealthy individuals and PAC money. Maybe I’m wrong just like Trump who said I don’t need to take money from PACS and lobbyist I’m self funded, then took money from the Republican National  Committee. Yea he was self funded, just like Warren will only take small donations.
 Trump makes like he’s the smartest man in the room and he had plans to fix the unbroken economy.
Warren has a plan to change to take on a trade imbalance were the numbers don’t show it if you include American brands overseas such as MacDonald's.
 Trump straw dogs are  immigrants  because that what his base wants to hear, Warren’s straw dog is billionaires because that’s what her base feeds on.
 Trump uses executive orders ( though most are unconstitutional) to get his way, now if I’m not mistaken, Senator Warren when asked how she was going to get her proposal done when most of Congress would vote against it said executive order.

Steve’s Barking; Riled up bases

The Republicans believe that the Kavanaugh nomination and the poor treatment(?) of him will rise up their base for the midterm elections. The Democrats think that the Kavanaugh nomination will rile up their base who normally don’t come out will. Well the way I see it the Republican base always comes out in the midterm elections, and the democrat stays home. Both sides have got to go after those who aren’t in their base, and hope that the Kavanaugh nomination will bring out people who are pissed off to their way of thinking.

Steve’s Barking; Money can’t buy you (love) votes

Recent insurgents have proved that winning you don’t have to spend the most money.
You have to have something else.
I can’t explain what it is, because damn our current President spent less in the elections then did his opponents (primary and Clinton in the general election).
The Social Democrats spent about 1/4 of what their opponents (the regular democrats) spent and yet they kicked b... .
The only thing I took away from this is have a message and get it out any way you can and it’s not the  person who has the most money to spend but the person who has the best message to rile up the voters.

Steve's Barking; Selfish politics

What is this being discussed right now in politics is conservative politics,liberal politics, alt right and   Progressive politics.  What is not being  discussed right now is selfish politics.  
What do I mean by selfish politics. Well they used to say all politics  are local and selfish politics can be considered part of the local scene. A local politician can help someone get a visa. They can help some one who has too many tickets and will not be able to work get some of those tickets dismissed.
The hope being that that those who get those favors will vote for and continue to vote for that  politician.
That's always been the case, that's why  senior centers are funded. Teen centers and clinics are funded. ( common knowledge ).
What not understood is negative  selfish  politics. Locally it might be the local politician who refused to take a call from a troubled  constituent .  No vote from that  constituent .
On the national level it may be a Hillary attack candidate  Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries, leaving a bad taste in the mouth of some of his fans. Again Hillary Clnton  feminist surrogates  who said that the young female voters for Bernie Sanders did so only to be around boys. Hillary needed those votes, but those voters were so turned off they didn't turn out.
Now I have a really bad taste in my mouth for the  governor of New York Andrew Cuomo. Am I really going to vote for someone who when running for office stated my pension is too high playing along with those who hate government and especially those who,are civil servants.
Another example of negative selfish politics is women's equality coming on the  perceived back of a white man. Well those men have a negative selfish political agenda along with those women who are their wives.
I'm laying it out, be careful of negative selfish politics.

Steve's Barking; Hillary didn't lose the election because of the Russians!t

Hillary didn't lose the election the several weeks leading up to election eve, she lost the election in 2008 when she attacked Senator Obama, this wasn't forgotten by many African Americans despite support of African American leaders.
Hillary Clinton didn't lose the election becomes Comey, she lost the election when she said yes to taking the job of Secretary of State. Every mistake (perceived mistake) was magnified. If she wanted to be president she should have stayed senator.

Steve's Barking; The real third rail of American politics is ignorance

One keeps hearing that the third rail of American politics is entitlement programs. Nah the real third real is ignorance.
Ignorance of the pundits, ignorance of the press, and most of all ignorance of the voters.
We don't know our constitution, even though it's written in our native language English.
We don't know our history. Worse of all we don't know what those running for office really represent.

We the people don't know what socialism means. We don't understand capitalism  means (most of us think that capitalism means a free enterprise system). We don't know that the he best economic system is mixed economic system so that the free enterprise system can flourish.
I call this the third rail of politics because no one challenges the wrong headed positions of ignorance   of our laws. No one seems to know that we have a mixed economic system.

Question should everybody vote on judges and school board members, especially when don't know what they represent?
I know vote for every judicial position that comes up on the ballot and I don't know if the person I'm voting thinks that every man over 60 should be placed in a nursing home.
I vote for school board persons who may or may not believe that students should go to the bathroom during the school day.
I'm like most of my fellow Americans vote with ignorance. Should we be allowed to vote?
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Steve's barking; The Duck has a lot of catching up to do

Donald ( The Duck) Trump had a lot of catching up to do!
He's proud of the fact that he got 14 million votes in the Republican primaries.
The fact of the matter is 118 million votes were cast in the last general election.
Well the rest of the pack got 15 million and assume that 80 percent vote for the duck, so that gives him 26 million votes.
Now let's assume that 20 percent of of those voted are so pissed off that they don't vote and 10 percent vote for a third party  meaning that Hillary and the Duck are fighting for about 83 million votes.
Now 83 minus 26 equals 57 million. Now most of these votes belong to Hillary,  because they're Democrats through and through. So the Duck has his work cut out for himself self.


Why nickname the Duck.
Ducks giving tax information.
Ducks giving specifics on Social Security.
Ducks being honest.
Ducks telling the truth on his businesses.

* Number aren't exact so don't hold me to it.

Steve's barking;Voting against my best intrest

 Believe or not the two major presumptive candidates expect me to vote for them. The Duck  wants me to vote for him so he can blow up trade treaties. Now I may not be as smart as him but I'm positive that bringing back all those manufacturing jobs would bring gross inflation, and because I live on a fairly fixed income, huge inflation would have a devastating effect on me.
Now the Democratic presumptive nominee wants to go partial fix of Social Security, instead of having everybody no matter how much you make,having everyone  pay the same percentage let's .have a donut hole, stop everyone from paying the same, those making from $110,000 till $250,000(?) don't pay the 6 plus percent after the $110,000. Those making (?) over $250,000 pay the full amount of Social Security tax. Then on top of that there talk of enhancing Social Security. As I see that puts us in the same place as before, Social Security will only pay if I should live so long, 75% of what was promised in year 2033.
Now the presumptive Democratic nominee says that the health care system isn't broken and only a minor tweet will fix it. As my Medicare supplement begins to rise. If one doesn't know what's wrong with the system  you can't fix it.

The numbers that I stated about Social Security aren't exact numbers, so please don't lose your wigs over them.

Steve's barking; Bad news for the Republicans if "The Duck " wins

For all those who worry if Donald "the duck " loses the presidential election that the Republican Party would be in trouble, I'm stating just the opposite, if The Duck wins he would shatter too many beliefs on how to win election. He would be not have listened to anyone. He be his own man. The independence of Republican congressmen and woman to get special treatment for their districts or state would be in jeopardy.
The whole way the political parties look at elections would change? Or possibly the Duck would be America's Cromwell and after him, things will go back to the way they always were.

Steve's barking; The Duck is a muddled headed liberal

Donald (the duck) Trump wants to talk with Pak Pung Ju of North Korea. He wants to have better relations with Russia... Now if he was a Democrat he would be called a muddled headed liberal.
Dom Clinton has a get tough policy that if she was a Republican would be called a war monger (neocon)conservative.
That shows me how crazy my American political world has become.

Steve's barking; It's not how much you spend on the military it's how you spend the money

 It's silly season in the United States. It's been silly season since January when the presidential politics started.
The book big thing that those running for office blabbering on about is money spent on the military.
Let me get my nickels worth in, we can spend 10 times what the next country spends, but it's the quality of what you buy that really counts. If you're spending your money on high price kitchen help were in n the old days it was done by the ordinary soldiers ( we used to call it KP).
If we spend billions on aircraft that doesn't work. It doesn't doesn't matter how much you spend, especially if your enemy who is spending less has better equipment because the adversary has to be.

I almost forgot, the cost of all countries are cheaper to make weapons and the pay is lower, so yes the adversary might just have a monetary advantage.

Is military procurement a Republican works program? Sometimes I wonder.

Steve's Barking; Poles, it don't mean a thing till Sept

Why does anyone care what the poles say in the U.S. Presidential race. No body gives a sh*t until September.
As anyone who has followed American presidential politics will tell you that hardly anyone really thinks of the presidential politics once the nominees have been selected. We Americans can now worry about our sun tans until September when the elections get into full swing.
Nobody even watches the conventions anymore. It's not must see TV like when I was a boy.

Steve's barking; Registering for voting and not voting is like........

If you are registered  to vote or vote only every so often it's like having your ears pierced and not having a stud in the hole.
The best protest one can have is when a group doesn't want you to vote and you find a way to vote anyway.
When African Americans complain about unfairness and they are the majority and they don't vote, making them a minority in the voting community they have met the enemy and they are it.
When we complain about Gerrymandering and we don't vote in all elections, well as Pogo said in the comics, we have met the enemy and he is us.

Steve's barking; His nomination means the death of the Republican Party

His nomination means the death of the Republican Party, so said the when Barry Goldwater became the nominee of the Republican Party in 1964.
Was it the end of the Repulican Party. Not hardly. So even if Donald Trump is the Republican Parties nomination and they go down in inglorious defeat Democrates shouldn't gloat but should strive even  harder, and not be the party of arrogance as they were after the 64 election.

Steve's Barking; Donald (Duck) Trump and the new Republican conservatives

There's a new Republican conservatism brought about by the campaign of Donald Duck.
The new conservatism of the Republican Party. Conserve Social Security. Conserve Medicare.
The Donald understands this is what the old people want, and we all know that the older you get the more conservative you are.

What happens if the Donald wins the Republican nomination and promises to bail out Porto Rico.
Would that split the Latino vote?
What happens if the Donald promises to lend Mexico the money interest free to build the wall along the boarder having a Hugh.public works project? What would happen if the Duck promised to give a thousand bucks to all illegals to leave, would they take it? Or how many would take it?

Steve's Barking; American politics or brat attack

Another free commercial for candidates for president better know as candidate debates.
In all the debates what is lacking is a clear definition  of how each positions of each candidate will benefit the American public.
What is the most important thing the Republican candidates want you to know about is that in most cases their more conservative then the next candidate.Now a big question in the Democrat debate is that candidate Hilary Clinton may or may not be a progressive.
I like to call this a brat attack. This is like what bratty children sound like. Your Daddy is ugly. No your daddy's ugly.
 I call myself a progressive, after all I need Social Security, get a government pension, live in a housing complex that was created by progressives. Got my education through the GI bill, and worked for a government agency that was created by a progressive agenda, so if I wasn't a progressive I would be a hypocrite.
I also like to call myself a Hamilton conservative.
In some way being a Hamilton conservative and a progressive are miles apart and in other ways they are the exact same thing. When we think of America's founding father's he was called the most conservative, yet he was the one who was the most anti-slavery. He was also the one who pointed out that the constitution in it's preamble states to promote the general welfare. What could be more progressive then that.

Steve's barking; The name of game isn't win primaries

The name of the game isn't to win primaries, or even get the most votes.
The true way to win the nomination to get at least 50% plus 1 delegates if no one gets that amount then we get what is called a brokers convention which hasn't happened in recent memory.
It's quite possible not to win a single primary and still win the nomination of a party.
It's also possible to win a vast majority of primaries and not get the nomination.
That's the Donald's problem. I don't think he's going to get enough delegates.

Steve's barking; Why Uncle Bernie Winning would be good for the Democratic party

Uncle Bernie needs new voters to win.
There is a good chance that these new voters would vote along party lines, voting for Democrats.
In order for Uncle Bernie to win there must be a huge turnout of new voters.
If the Democrats put up candidates in every congressional district, the house will (surprise, surprise)  turn around.
The Democratic party needs new blood,so if my thesis is right they need Bernie more then Hilary for Hilary would not bring in new voters.