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In reply to the discussion: Remember when we used to get angry about atrocities committed by our Government? [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)opposition and demonstration with others of like mind to try to stop such things. (other issues being right wing financial and trade policies shared by the right and faux left "new" Democrats that both have implemented since the nineties).
When Bush was Resident, my opposition to these things was common and well shared here, now my opposition results in attacks against my opposition to such things even by many posters that used to join me in such opposition.
I was naive and surprised by this turn of events that is an equal problem in the real world groups I have fallen out of grace with. I guess they call it party loyalty, or more appropriately partisanship, but I still can't shake the term "hypocrisy" from my thoughts when thinking of it.
It has left me wondering if my views belong in any party all, even though there was A time quite recently when I thought such views defined me as a Democrat.
Much to ponder regarding what it means to belong to any party, (even the one I've belonged to since the 70s) in this post millennial age...