Hiya. New here.

Little backstory: I grew up watching C-Span (don't ask), and I noticed a pattern emerge from the people doing floor speeches in Congress. For some reason one group of people were unpleasant, fidgety, self-contradictory weirdos who said oddly mean things that rang false, and there was always an "R" next to their name. Not everyone with an "R" was like that, but everyone like that had an "R". All of them. While the ones with the "D" just seemed like regular people.

The older I got, the more I understood what it was: The tip of the iceberg. There's no words for the evil I saw R's commit day after day, year after year, and they've kept digging themselves to hell ever since (and trying to drag America and the world with them).

But there's another side to that coin: When I watched C-Span, the "D" politicos often seemed low-key afraid. They seemed honest, but also seemed scared of the things they were saying, and kept trying to soften or smooth it out at their own expense and to the benefit of the "forehead-vein people" (as I often thought of R's back then). That's gotten worse with time, so it's up to non-politicians to keep it real.

With that thought in mind, someone recommended this site to me, so thought I'd have a go.