Feeling racist? Blood pressure pill Propranolol may open hearts and minds

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11. I would not call myself racist

but I have gone from being a regular responder/poster on Free Republic to Democratic Underground. I also think that Rachel Maddow is the best commentator on television. I started liking her with her Bush countdown clock. I never liked Bush, but I never realized how truly bad he coiuld be.

I started taking Lisinopril about three years ago. It is also a blood pressure medicine. I have to wonder.

I frankly think the Republican party is barking at the moon crazy. The breaking point for me was the anti-science movement and the craziness to think that tax cuts always generate more revenue. They are like parrots when considering solutions. Also the more defense is always better. Finally the unwilingness to look at other countries and see how they may be doing things better.

I still disagree with many things on this board, but we do have common cause in many areas. I tend to look at things from a freedom of the individual and economic sense. Kind of like a Libertarian who realizes that you are just not going to let people starve in the streets and past actions have set in motion forces that are difficult if not impossible to stop.

I guess my movement to what my father in law calls a Robert Taft republican has come about because of the blood pressure medicine.