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Today's Democrats are pretty much a lost cause.
The ones I know either are filled with hate and openly endorse violence, or have the attitude that Kirk was just a 'right wing Bible-banger' and to be ignored.
NONE of the Democrats I know even bothered to watch any of the Sunday ceremony, dismissing it as a 'political event'.
Of course NONE of the Democrats I know ever listened to ANYTHING Kirk said - like the rest of their bubble-shielded life, the only thing they need to know about 'the Right Wing' is whatever CNN tells them. They consider Fox 'far-Right' (in my experience the Gateway Pundit is maybe 'Right', although they are nearly always accurate, but Fox is 'mild-Left' or at best 'Center'), so of course they cannot listen directly to Fox - they just listen to whatever Huffington Post or CNN tell them that Fox (or Kirk) said. They do that and say they listen to 'all sides'...
Sadly, although many are "leaving the Democrat Party", many have been so propagandized that they absolutely cannot flip to Republican.
I see some of their points - the RINO faction of the Republicans make me puke, but realistically there is no 'third party' at the Federal level to go with.
I really DO think Libertarians should nearly always be voted for at the Local and State level though.
Anyway, there are a lot of people waking up now - so hopefully things will improve. No time to be complacent though...!
