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Talking About...U.S. Conservatism: Why did James Alex Fields from the Charlottesville protests get recommended 419 years in prison for killing one person?

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Why did James Alex Fields from the Charlottesville protests get recommended 419 years in prison for killing one person? If he were a liberal and rammed his car into Trump supporters and killed people, would he get the same harsh sentence? I really hate questions written by “conservative” zealots that seek to demonize fellow Americans who happen to hold different views on how the country should be governed. Not only are they insincere (not seeking real answers but, rather, making a political statement instead), but they are not well thought-out. Still, I’ll answer it, even though I seriously doubt it will enlighten the dude that wrote this, ahem, question. Firstly, James Allen Fields, Jr.  deserves  what he got for driving his car into a crowd of people who were counter-protesting a  Neo-Nazi rally  and killed a young woman, Heather Heyer. A life sentence in prison is far better than he deserves, actually, seeing as to how Ms. Heyer is dead and Mr. Neo-Nazi Fields is still

A response to 'Do liberals only hate President Donald Trump because he is one of the richest and most successful people in the world?'

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Not in the slightest, considering that Donald J. Trump is neither one of the richest persons in the world nor one of the most successful, at least as far as his business expertise is concerned. So if you think that all the discontent with our current Chief Executive is based on mere envy, well…no. It’s not. If anything, I strongly dislike President Trump for various reasons, most of which are based on his behavior and utterances over the past 30 years, including: 1. His penchant for having extramarital affairs, divorcing two of his wives to marry the women he was having the affairs with, and constantly hitting on other women  even though he was married.  The first time he did this, he ditched first wife Ivana for Marla Maples; the second time he did this, he ditched Marla for Melania Knavs. 2. His spiteful campaign to bring back the death penalty to New York State after the “Central Park Jogger” rape case in 1989, as well as his stubborn insistence that the five teenagers wh

Dispatches from Trump's America: Charlottesville + 2

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Two days after 20-year-old James Alex Fields, Jr. killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injured 19 others when his Dodge Challenger deliberately hit a group of counter-protesters who were leaving a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia., President Donald J. Trump finally spoke out against the KKK, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups.  "I just met with FBI director Christopher Wray, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions," Trump said. "The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly car attack that killed one innocent American, and wounded twenty others. To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend's racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered." Trump added, "As I said on Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence – it has no place in America. And as I have said many times before, no matter the color of our skin