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In reply to the discussion: Why should I be a Democrat? [View all]Warpy
(111,899 posts)In fact, when I updated my voter registration a couple of weeks ago, I very nearly left "party" blank.
Like you, I'm a far leftist, been one all my life, got truly sickened by watching conservatives drag the party to the right in an attempt to overcome the appeal of Nixon's courting the bigots and Reagan's courting the religious nuts.
Now there's a concerted effort to drive the left out of the party, inspired by Russian trolls and picked up by party conservatives who seemingly don't know trolls when they see them.
Conservatives in our party and theirs have had their way since 1969 and the wreck this country has become is the result. Oh, it's nice to have made some social progress with things like marriage equality, but women's health has taken a huge hit in most states, young black men are still shuffled off to prison on the flimsiest evidence (if the cops don't shoot them first), voting rights are getting restricted all over the place, and wealth inequality with working people strip mined to fatten the rich makes damned sure we don't have the resources to fight any of this.
Conservatives have had a long run, too long, and they've fouled up nearly everything they've touched. At their best, they put the brakes on the worst excesses of the left. Being in power has prevented them from being their best.
I guess I'm sticking with this party out of pure spite, not to mention there isn't an alternative party anywhere that's gotten it together to be more than some lunatic's fiefdom. Unless there is a formal purge, I'm going to stay here and be in irritant to all the conservatives who threw away elections because of tight fisted idiocy and who threw away governance by stiffing the middle class almost as badly as the Republicans have.
I'll continue to be an irritant who tells them what they're doing wrong and what they need to do to fix it. Undoubtedly they'll all have me on ignore soon as they try to convince themselves that failed conservative policies will eventually work if they pursue them long enough, you know, like that room full of monkeys on typewriters with editors waiting for Shakespeare's plays to emerge.
Join me?