Thread by @WollastonWntr63

Registered as a Republican

02/10/81 - 01/24/20

I sometimes wonder if Ronald Reagan were still alive if he'd be lamenting the 2nd time a party had left him. I can't speak for Dutch, but I have a strong suspicion he would be.

The Republican party has been threatening divorce from me for the last few decades and officially filed the day Reince Priebus declared Donald Trump the presumptive nominee while telling the two remaining candidates, Ted Cruz & John Kasich, to go take a hike.

Despite my better instincts to split from this perverted version of the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, I wanted things to work out of loyalty and for the hopes of participating in an internecine struggle for the heart and soul of the party. Surely there were still adults.

Yeah right... so if a divorce is what the party wants, then so be it. I'm tired of waiting for any signs of adulthood, true patriotism, any indication that at least one of them, ONE, won't disappoint & can say that their silly political career is not above the wellbeing of the

country they were sworn to protect and defend. Thank God for Justin Amash, but is he still a Republican? Nope, no place for honor in today's GOP. Hit the road kid!

As of today the divorce is final. It's not easy as being a Republican had been part of my identity for most of my life. I was a 5th generation Republican. My Great Grandfather was a childhood friend of Calvin Coolidge #30 in Woodstock, VT prior to the two of them moving to the

Boston area around the turn of the century. We have dishes and utensils Silent Cal had used while dining at my Great Grandparents in Lynnfield, MA.

Although I would have preferred to have registered as unaffiliated, CT has closed primaries, and I do sense the urgency and need to "give the full measure of my devotion" to the rescue of my country every step of the way. So I registered as a Democrat and will vote in the

primary come April 28th. Being center-right I am hardly an ideological fit for my new party. That said, I feel strongly this is not an election of policy preferences that might be considered during normal times. This is an election over the heart and soul of our country,

not a political party. Anyone who can actually see what is happening right before our very eyes and can fully comprehend the true depth of the peril we face knows it's not hyperbolic to say this election is about keeping humanity's last best hope humanity's last best hope.

I may be center-right, but it almost seems that the center-right and center-left aren't that much different against the backdrop of nationalist populism & post-liberal autocracy that have made inroads with the rise of the narcissistic demagogue some see as a president.

We love & respect our democratic institutions. We believe America should be a shining example of liberal Western democracy. We both worry about our diminished standing in the world and are fully aware of what this may bring in the not too distant future and beyond.

We both want to leave our children with their birthright, the American Dream, and not some Orwellian dystopian autocratic nightmare in Hell.

I won't be regretting my decision every time a Will Hurd disappoints me, or when a Martha McSally thinks her only chance to get reelected is to go full speed Stefanik, or when a Marsha Blackburn impugns & insults a decorated war hero & honorable public servant like

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. These Republicans in Congress stand for NOTHING!
THEY
MAKE
ME
SICK !!!!

As Congressman Adam Schiff so eloquently stated last night: " Right Matters, The Truth Matters, Without Them We Are Lost". This isn't a Liberal or Conservative position, it's common decency and common sense, something that all 328 million of us should believe in and take heed.

As long as only one of our political parties conducts itself in a manner consistent with taking Schiff's words to heart, that will be the party I support. For now, policy preferences be damned.

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