The Republican Party has ruined America

As a youngster growing up in Vancouver in the 1960’s, I remember my Dad expressing his admiration for Barry Goldwater. As a Canadian, Dad could not vote for Senator Goldwater, of course, but he damn well would have had we been Americanos. Dad’s father grew up in Le Sueur County, Minnesota, and moved to Saskatchewan while still a young man shy of 20 years just after 1900 and joined the railroad where he worked as a locomotive engineer until he retired in the year I was born, 1954.

I caught a youtube segment of Goldwater condemning the “radical left” at the nomination event you see a caption of above. This is, of course, a default setting for opponents of Republican candidates in debates and such since. I laughed when I heard Ms. Kelly Loeffler, the GOP candidate opposing Raphael Warnock in the 2020 Federal Election runoff debate in Georgia use this term continuously in an attempt to disparage Rev. Warnock and Democrats.

I have no idea Gramp’s political leaning but sure as heck Dad would have been a registered…