Mark Small

If adherents of the creed of this iteration of the GOP are so confident they are right - and that they believe in the principles upon which this country was founded - they should welcome every eligible voter casting their vote. 7/12

It appears that people are voting early in record numbers for this general election. The results of the elections - for so many offices - are only a start. Many people safe from discrimination were inured to the notion racism was a part of our past. 8/12

Racism/hatred/discrimination in every form have been w/this country fr its birth We never can rest in fight against these evils. We have seen too much hatred the past few years for any reasonable person to believe the roots of it run very deep and are not easily torn out. 9/12

D.C. Stephenson moved to Indiana 100 years ago to recruit for the KKK. His conviction for the murder of Madge Oberholzer, a young woman who worked in the office of the Superintendent Public Instruction, was thought by some to spell an end to the Kluxers. 10/12

If this iteration of the GOP is about keeping control of the country in the hands of a few, we need to understand they are the few. We need to vote and let the few know that their ideas are not accepted in the marketplace of ideas. 11/12

And here I thought this iteration of the GOP was all about free market economic policies. If you are confident of your position, you should welcome exchanges of ideas. Gosh golly, otherwise all it amounts to is cowardice. 12/12

See, this is where we disagree pretty significantly on things. The polices the right wing have put forth have never been about anything else than putting power in the hands of a few. They cover for it by claiming other issues, but those other issues are better dealt with by those

who oppose them. Every issue with the exception of how well they do at funneling money and power upwards and into the hands of fewer, they are worse at. They will literally burn a country down to make it happen.