I worked for Republicans and Breitbart. Trump made me see whats wrong with the GOP.

[haele]

22. Well, care to explain why you were a republican in the first place?

Was it because you loved the lies that pandered to your feelings that you deserved your privilege over other's rights, or was it right wing religiosity, or was it the allure of authoritarianism that went along with fascism?

Or was it because you sheepishly followed whatever group you first identified with when you started voting, and you've sort of woke up because the GOP showed you it's true face and it disturbed your comfortable buzz?

If you were a republican because of the former, well - go Libertarian. Or Green. Or Freedom party. And just accept you're going to remain a powerless third party, but at least you're not going to be hurting the country.

If the latter, go ahead and join the Democrats, but don't expect them to change into what you wanted the GOP to be.

The Democratic party are a coalition of localized social and economic positions that leans progressive, even though they're not fully synchronized into a mono-policy party machine like the GOP is. If that's what you want, you're welcome.
If it's not - again, go third party.
But whatever you choose, remember it's you that's joining a political party; the party isn't joining you...and is not going to change just because you want it to.

Put it this way, Kurt, changing political parties is like looking for a new girlfriend after you decided you couldn't handle the old one.
Face it. From you're little essay here, it sounds like you're a typical dudebro tool of privilege in a small world in a situation similar to if you've convinced yourself that a "perfect" new GF is going to be just like your old GF without "the baggage"; not a legitimate way to look at any relationship (personal or political) with any other human being.
Until you expand your world and start accepting things exist outside of your own viewpoint that you need to consider if you're going to improve your environment, you aren't going to find that "perfect happiness".

Haele