A Day in the Life of a Congressman

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16. Thank you! But lately it seems like no matter who gets the most votes, we get Republicans.

I changed my voter registration; I'm no longer a Democrat. I'm "No Party Affiliation".

I can no longer be supportive of a party that has moved so far to the right. This NSA dust-up is just the final straw, the party that doesn't support working people, chooses universal surveillance over universal health care, and seriously entertains cuts in Social Security is not the party I want to be associated with.

And after how I've seen supposed liberal and progressives on this board embracing the idea of an ever more intrusive, punitive, authoritarian govenment...I want to get as far away from them as I can.

When Democrats start acting like Democrats, supporting civil rights, and individual freedom, when there is as much attention paid to preserving the 1st, 4th and 5th as there is the 2nd, when jobs and infrastructure are real priorities, when a candidate campaigns on dismantling the for-profit prison system and the TSA and DHS, and restores Americans' ability to travel within their own borders unmolested, then the Democratic party may actually once again be the party of ordinary Americans.

Thank you Alan, for being one of the outliers.