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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Hodgkinson miscreant brings negative attention to the left
If he wanted to make a statement he should have immolated himself. F this cretinous coward shooting unarmed people.
I pray all the victims get well soon.
JI7
(89,276 posts)Who wanted to stop Hillary from becoming pres
I hope this is correct.
JI7
(89,276 posts)And Bernie or bust means he wanted trump over clinton
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)FB should lock it IMO but I tend to think they should with all like this no matter what political or religious beliefs they may have.
Demsrule86
(68,696 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)There's more showing his political stances on it. He's anti-Trump, anti-DNC and anti-Hillary. He was a write in vote for Bernie or vote for Stein one.
https://m.facebook.com/james.hodgkinson.568
I believe that mental stability or instability isn't partisan. Obviously something snapped inside of him enough that he took the trip from Illinois put aside the feelings and love of his family and friends up there and started shooting at people. That's not mentally healthy no matter how you look at it.
On his page above there's a picture of what I think was his granddaughter, young girl having fun on a jet ski. My heart goes out to her and any other grandchildren or loved ones he had. I suspect they didn't see this coming.
Demsrule86
(68,696 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)If you suffer from high blood pressure already. I started to and had to stop. It was just too much.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)America is a violent country, and the left is just as American as the right is.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)It's bizarre that he's from the place where CDS helped swing the election.
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Kaleva
(36,354 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)And corporate shill? Or heard a "progressive" call her "shillary" ? I heard it over and over again from people both here and in the real world. Doesn't help to pretend that hatred was not ginned up on both sides. Wikileaks, Guccifer, Greenwald, TYT and Stein all pushed this crap and did it well after the primaries.
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)pirateshipdude
(967 posts)Sanders to this day aggressively goes after the Republican vote. We know many supporters were not Democrats and never Democrats, needing caucus and open primary in Red States. Because he is a Sanders supporter or shot Republicans, does not make him a Democrat.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,714 posts)pirateshipdude
(967 posts)I do think Republican voters own the hate, divisiveness, violence, murder committed thru their agenda. And I would have to own this as a Democrat, if the man was a Democrat. He was not.
That is my point of not owning it. How I will address on social media is that this was not a Democrat. He was a Sanders supporter that voter Stein. Anti-Democrat and X-Republican. I understand media will not present it that way. I will argue that point.
MFM008
(19,820 posts)Illinois is not a hot bed of liberalism ( where gunman is from). I was raised near there. My mom's family is from Decatur. They are all republicans.
Another reason she doesn't speak to them.
bresue
(1,007 posts)Is there not a label for extreme Independents? Just saying....
Demsrule86
(68,696 posts)Initech
(100,105 posts)The GOP is looking for any excuse to lock us up. This is getting scary. This is the last thing we need, this fucking lunatic.
bpj62
(999 posts)Bernie is also very Pro Gun so this will be a hard one for the right to sell.
Warpy
(111,359 posts)He was just one of those mad as hell people who wanted CHANGE and I don't think he much cared what form it took.
A deep thinker is not something he'd seem to be, nor was he partisan.
However, the gunz, gunz, gunz drumbeat of the GOP has finally bitten some of them on the ass. They'll try to deflect, of course, and the breathless bafflegabbers on the TV will twist themselves into corkscrews trying to spin it away from the NRA, but Republican Congressmen feel a lot less safe today than they did yesterday because they know how many gunz they've managed to get out there.
Now they know: and armed society isn't a polite society, it's a terrified society.
At least the injuries were not life threatening this time. The shooter has died so we'll never know what was going on in his head.
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)Warpy
(111,359 posts)He was a classic Hillary hater.
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)There were many libertarians and Republicans who supported Sanders. This individual may be one of those types.
JHB
(37,162 posts)...at one point he had changed his photo to FDR, pretty consistent hate on Republicans, etc.
If he was an ex-Republican as some people claim, then it was from before 2012. Joining a Facebook group doesn't mean he actually was one.
JI7
(89,276 posts)JHB
(37,162 posts)Thanks for the informative response.
I took a look at the page, and while it does seem to be anti-1%ers and anti-Trump, it would be interesting to confirm this information with voter registration and/or party affiliation data.
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)enid602
(8,658 posts)It gives tRump some shade. Let's see if he can change the narrative. He's still on a desperate position.