Right?

It is disturbing AS HELL.

It seriously is

Jerry, what do you think of Greg Abbott?

I don't like him. He's another Ultra-Conservative Republican that they seem to love down here.

I honestly don't know. I haven't lived in New Jersey for many years. In my lifetime, there have been Democratic Presidents and Republican Presidents, but for many years, the candidates that would end up getting elected were rather moderate. For example, in the first debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, Nixon started out by saying "The things that Senator Kennedy has said, many of us can agree with," and, indeed, they held many of the same views. and through that debate, they showed a great deal of respect to each other, even though they were running against each other. If you compare that debate with the debates between the Democrats this year and between Trump and the other Republican Candidates in 2016, or between Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016, it's like night and day. Richard Nixon would be considered too liberal by the current Republican Party, and John F. Kennedy would be considered too conservative by the current Democratic Party, and now the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress do all they can to oppose any policy that the opposition party President puts forward. All vestiges of civility and doing what's right have disappeared, and everyone is out for their own interests.

Those were the days that I miss. Politicians were not extreme like they are now. I loved John Kennedy, but he wasn't a democrat (like you say) by today's standards. He was just a compassionate President with common sense and was beloved by both sides.

JFK wasn’t a Democrat?

l:

He was definitely a moderate by today's standards. It was different being a democrat in those days. My parents were democrats.

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