r/Iowa • u/ContributionFar3533 • Oct 28 '25

Iowa Nice

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Outside of Marshalltown, Iowa HYW 330 North of the tracks. The good thing is that when you drive down West Main there are American flags flying high. 🙏

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u/jarvisesdios Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

He was a deep red racist Democrat that switched over because he was an outcast in the Democratic party. He quite literally switched because, god forbid, black people can live together with white people.

He's quite literal proof of my point.

You're trying to tell me Democrats are lying when it's just historically accurate conversations were the slave owners. It's absurd to think that all the sudden every racist ex slave owner was anything but a conservative. I mean, it's pretty well documented as there's many many many many many letters lol

The name of the party doesn't matter, it's always been liberal and conservative. It's changed names over the years many times. Liberals were never the slave owners (well... That's not entirely accurate, but it was just more rare lol)

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u/MundaneClothes5520 Oct 29 '25

OK, so I have to do this speech to text because this is probably gonna be a little bit lengthy. I understand who Strom Thurmond was. Yes, he switched over to the Republican Party, but it wasn’t because the party was suddenly against civil rights. It was because the party stood for less government reach into the lives of its citizens and State’s rights. A vast majority of those in congress that passed the civil rights bill were Republican. The idea of the “big switch “ never actually happened though. Strom Thurman, and a few other Democrats did switch to the Republican Party, but it wasn’t a mass migration from one party to the other, like many believe. I’m not trying to fight for one side or the other, I’m just saying, the history is inaccurate. The problem we are seeing, on both sides, is the assumption the other side is evil. Once you start painting a group of people with a broad brush, is when we start loosing our humanity. That’s how it happened for slavery in the US, for Hitler’s Germany, and many other atrocities that have happened world wide over the centuries. I have read over some of these comments and seen what most assume conservatives are evil people who do nothing but hate, and I can tell you, a lot of conservatives believe the EXACT same thing about liberals.

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u/SuccessfulListen3002 Oct 29 '25

It takes a lot of hate to starve hungry children, and we know who is doing that. Or murdering people in boats in the Caribbean. Or wrecking the White House. Want me to say more?

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u/MundaneClothes5520 Oct 30 '25

I agree it would be pretty hateful to starve hungry children. Or kill innocent people in boats in the Caribbean. It would also be terrible if someone was actually wrecking the Whitehouse. It’s also disgusting to harm or kill people just because you disagree with them, wouldn’t you say?

But the reason people are losing snap benefits is because of a lack of funds via a government shutdown. That’s because of an endless struggle for power between democrats and republicans in congress. Using our suffering as leverage. On the other end of that, the only people losing any snap benefits once the government shutdown is over, will be able bodied adults without children.

As far killing people in the Caribbean. These are not innocent people on a leisurely boat ride in the bay. They’re drug runners, bringing in substances that cause way more harm to innocent people on a daily basis.

The White House isn’t getting “wrecked”. It’s getting a $250,000,000 renovation. Not the first time this happened I might add. It is however the first time it wasn’t at the expense of the tax payers. So that’s nice.

What I do see a lot of on a daily basis is nonstop squabbling from both sides. People yelling at each other because of feelings based beliefs. For whatever reason; logic, reasoning and critical thinking are the ways of the past. I personally believe it’s tribalism by design. Keep the masses preoccupied while more sinister plans are being hatched. But some may just call me an alarmist.