May 10, 2008...2:25 pm
My Divorce a Day Later
It still hurts, this separation from my past and the realization that my political home is no longer my home. It pains me that in the year the DNC is having a primary contest between a white woman and a black man is the year I feel my party no longer has any use for me. I feel sad, but I also feel I did the right thing. And the people in the DNC who are happy to see me go can think I am a racist running dog, anti-choice, Republican, etc. but I am none of those things. I am very liberal, very pro-choice, and not a racist. I have no party home, because I can’t join the Republicans. No, I am a Democrat, pretty through and through, but my party went another way. I always wondered why moderate Republicans didn’t quit when they saw their party becoming ruled by extremists. Now I know. It hurts to do it. I wouldn’t change my religion for anything, but a political party when it ceases to represent the principles I hold dear can’t claim my loyalty.
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May 11, 2008 at 8:24 pm
huntingdonpost,
After you have sufficiently mourned, then follow my advice.
When you are finished going through the mourning process of changing from Democrat to Independent, then you will realize that you have been set FREE and will start to REJOICE, in my opinion.
Look, when one becomes a Republican or Independent, there is complete FREEDOM to do as YOU wish, WITHOUT fear of someone challenging your patriotism, allegiances or intelligence.
As a Republican or Independent you can begin to feel FREEDOM of expression once again to say exactly what you are thinking, instead of what you think you should say.
As a Republican or Independent you are NOT expected to be “politically correct” or say “politically correct” things in order to be excepted.
As a Republican or Independent you can have complete FREEDOM of CHOICE to vote for whomever and whatever initiative YOU want WITHOUT being labeled anti-this or anti-that, and held out as a freak or any other derogatory term that radical, elite Democrats have for those that do not tow their current political fads.
As a Republican or Independent you can vote for A Democrat, Republican or Independent WITHOUT being called a traitor or idiot.
Since you have changed your registration from Democrat to Independent, you have just set yourself FREE to fly and soar anywhere YOU want and choose what candidates and issues YOU like WITHOUT being scorned and ridiculed from those elites and leftists that don’t like you anyway, but NEED your vote to stay in power.
You have done a courageous thing, so now go ENJOY your FREEDOM!
May 12, 2008 at 9:04 am
It does sound painful, though I do not really know what it means, except from context.
As far as I know, people here do not “belong” to a party in any such literal sense. And of course, yours is a two party system. That is very hard to imagine as seen from here. It is either - or for you, but in Real Life that is not frequent, is it? Doesn’t it turn even practical choices into moral options?
May 12, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Denny, I think it is a matter of accepting that things are changing, and I am getting there. Now, I don’t know how being a Republican would set me free. My Republican friends seem very ideological, but they are neo-cons so on the extreme end. But I see your point about being an Independent. It may be time for the US to have a viable 3rd party. I don’t mean one built around Hillary Clinton, as these movements always fail, and while I like her as a candidate, I don’t want a “leader.” In fact, that is what scares me about Obama–the cult of personality.
Cantueso, the two party system is odd. It dichotomizes American thought. I am must think about your question about moral choices. I do think it invites personal moral choices into politics more than I have seen elsewhere.
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