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My readers are for the most part; male\/female, straight, white people that adhere to some variety of faith. \u00a0That should make us a protected class since we seem to be, currenlty, under the most attack in the world today. \u00a0Now the question is “how do you react to the MAGA hat above?” \u00a0I would guess, with some preconceived notion, that most of you would say, yeah let’s get on with that!<\/p>\n
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A minority who come here would probably have a completely different reaction. \u00a0It is with you folks that I want to share. \u00a0This is not a confrontation, I repeat, THIS IS NOT A CONFRONTATION<\/strong><\/span>, \u00a0it is my attempt to explain what that hat means to most of us that you would take issue with. \u00a0I hope to show you that what you are hearing on the main stream media is not true and that you’re being mislead. \u00a0Let’s set the standard for this. \u00a0I know many people that are right leaning and left leaning, they are all good people, and they have sincere, strong beliefs about their positions. \u00a0Any person that is a member of the KKK, or the John Birch Society or that are rioting in the streets with ANTIFA or Black Lives Matter, or the Womenn’s March probably falls further to the right and left. \u00a0If you do not consider yourself that extreme, then don’t associate yourself with those groups! \u00a0This blog post is not aimed at any of you, I doubt you would listen or would hate me for excluding you! \u00a0Why am I excluding those people? \u00a0Those groups and the people that adhere to their behavior are not in any way making America better, they are hateful and destructive against civil discourse. \u00a0Now that we have settled that let me share with those willing to listen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I know many people that would be proud to wear that hat and I want to tell you who they really are, which is counter to what you would here on CNN<\/strong> and MSNBC<\/strong>! \u00a0CNN<\/strong> was once a great news network, but they have now thrown in with the far left position on almost all issues. \u00a0It is very easy to see and research the thousands of examples of their out and out lying to the American public. \u00a0MSNBC<\/strong> has pretty much always been in that camp.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is the truth about those of us constantly maligned by the left.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Opinions on minorities:<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0The people I know and I know many, do not see minorities any differently than you do! \u00a0They work with, go to church and school with and have many minorities as friends! \u00a0In spite of what you are being told we do not, nor does our President, want ot make “America White Again!” \u00a0I am deeply offended by that characterization. \u00a0Most of my friends are offended by it to. \u00a0I would advise any Democrats trying to solidify their base to stay away from that one, \u00a0it is not true and highly volatile!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Opinions on the LBGT community<\/strong>.<\/span> \u00a0Most of the people I know are not interested in being gay, but they believe that people have to right to choose as they wish. \u00a0They believe that it is never right to abuse, or disadvantage someone because of their sexual orientation choses. \u00a0While we respect others rights to choose, we would not likely attend the gay parade to support them. \u00a0Allowing people to make their own decisions and supporting those decisions is two different things. \u00a0Support can translate to approval of the choice and I can only speak for myself on this one, I won’t do that. \u00a0Don’t get me wrong, I have a number of gay friends, men and women, and I like them very much, just not in that way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Opinions on Socialism and Communism.<\/strong> <\/span>\u00a0Some on the far, far left actually would like to end capitalism in America and replace it with Democratic Socialism or Communism. \u00a0Our opinion on that is it has never worked anywhere before, so why consider it for here. \u00a0It has had limited success in smaller countires, those with much smaller populations, but not in massive populations like the U.S. \u00a0Once you provide all everyone’s needs regardless or how hard they work, you change the dynamic of a society and innovation, and productiveness takes a bad fall!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Opinions on the 2nd Amendment<\/strong><\/span>. \u00a0Some on the left feel the only way to truly end gun violance is to eliminate the ownership of guns by the general population. \u00a0There is one major flaw with that thinking, with the countless millions of privately owned guns you would never be able to seize them all and those are legally owned guns! \u00a0The crinminal element of our society has very large stockpiles of un-registered guns, and you would never be able to even get a fraction of them back from criminals. \u00a0So think about this, if every legal gun owner in America willingly gave up their guns, and the criminals didn’t, who will protect you from them, then??!! \u00a0One other little thing, The 2nd Amendemnt<\/strong> gives us the right to own and bare arms, and that is a constitutionally guaranteed right. \u00a0One last thing the NRA (National Rifle Association)<\/strong> is constantly attacked when all we do is protect our constituional rights. \u00a0How many mass shootings or homicides have been committed by NRA members? \u00a0Look it up, you will be shocked! We’re not the bad guys!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Opinions on illegal immigration.<\/strong> <\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0It is falsely claimed that people to the right are anti-immigrant. \u00a0FALSE<\/strong>, we are descendants of immigrants, actually, except for American Indians we all are!!! \u00a0This is the rights “real”<\/strong> view. \u00a0We have a wonderful country, so wonderful that people from all over the world want to come here and live in our great country. We used to have a immigration system that, in a orderly way, allowed people to apply to become a citzen. \u00a0If they could bring needed skills and contribute, if they wanted to be “an American”\u00a0<\/strong> learn our language and become a part of our family, we welcomed them and it took many years to finally become a citizen. \u00a0Many cried tears of joy when they were granted citizenship!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We now have floods of people simply invading our country illegally and demanding to stay, not learning our language, many despising our country, and many going on the welfare rolls. \u00a0Some states have decided to not only to welcome them but support them even offering free heathcare and education all the way through college. \u00a0Think about it, these people are here illegally, they did not go through the system set up by our country. \u00a0They demand to be made citizens and yet do not want to really be Americans. \u00a0How many of you are being provided welfare, healthcare and an education all on the Federal Government? \u00a0(Transltion: the taxpayers)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here is the bottom line question that you cannot get any liberal to answer. \u00a0What is the limit we should set on allowing people into our country? \u00a0Is it one million per year, 10 million per year, limitlss open borders? \u00a0 Another good question that needs to be answered. \u00a0If only 10 percent go on U.S. provided welfare system how many more people can we have on welfare in America before we collapse the economy. \u00a0Are you willing to pay up to 80% of your earnings to support people that are coming illegally and won’t or can’t find work?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We all feel terrible to see people in other countries suffering, but there is a limit to what we can do about it!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My point is simple, that’s my hat, and I truly want to make America Great Again. \u00a0I believe we need to live by our constitution and our laws and we need to be caring and supportive of each other, but not give the farm away, if we do, there will be no farm for you and I.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Think about it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My readers are for the most part; male\/female, straight, white people that adhere to some variety of faith. \u00a0That should make us a protected class since we seem to be, currenlty, under the most attack in the world today. \u00a0Now the question is “how do you react to the MAGA hat above?” \u00a0I would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19944,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19939\/revisions\/19944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}