Dinos and Rinos

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This logo is just exactly what I wanted one of my AI’s to make for me. I asked for the Tao symbol of circle split into by gently flowing lines not cleaved into two semi-circles. Where the small circle would be I asked for sillohettes of a TRex’s head teeth showing and a Rhino head with two horns.

The symbolism shows not a democratic donkey and a Republican elephant but two animals which I think better describe both party’s followed by “IN NAME ONLY” meaning fakes. But the Republicans who repudiated Ronald Reagan’s call for big tent Republicanism quickly changed their tune when Reagan’s dementia kicked in coining the term Rinos for anybody who wasn’t a pure enough Republican for them. This was the era when the Anti Big Tent Republicans found challengers to primary any Congressman or Senator with a hint of compassion or what these anti-big-tentors considered liberal instincts. That meant me. To my minority way of thinking the anti-big tentors were the fakes – the real Rinos. But I was in the minority.

The anti machine gun law the Brady law was a Reagan idea born of the near assassination of President Reagan. With his departure the anti-big tentors called out the gun nuts to vote against people who had supported the Brady law. Ditto Pro-Choice Republicans like those who in 1972 put a pro-choice plank in Minnesota’s Republican Party platform. As more and more “born again” Christians found themselves flocking under the smaller tent they joined their homo phobia with six shooting anti-abortionists. With a long enough primary’s behind them there was no one left like me in the GOP. It became a party that had to attack the Voting Rights act and Teachers because blacks and teachers were untrustworthy.

Many of us were driven into the Democratic Party while Democrats fleeing were called into the GOP where the divide that threatens our Democracy lives with us today whipped into extremes by the transactional Donald Trump who believes in nothing so much as personal loyalty to him America’s Big Brother. I thought I had a column about the purging but the first half which you can read below starts with January 6, 2020.

Purging the RINO’s

There is not correspondingly large a group of exiles in the Democratic Party but Dinos does rhyme with Rinos and so I picture to people who ought to fuse America together again on the Democratic side as little T-Rexes. Rinos and Dinos. I celebrate the center and so I picture both groups pulling America together again with Republicans like me voting for centrist Democrats and vice versa on the Republican side.

As I’ve written many times before and as I end the column. There was a time when Republicans and Democrats intermarried without giving it much thought. America needs those times back.

About the author

Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

https://duluthreader.com/contributors/h/84/284-harry-welty