A Note from a Republican

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Long story short, I got up there to register as an independent, said “Fuck it,” and now I am a Democrat. I certainly don’t agree with all their positions, but they are not bat-shit crazy like the GOP. That has to count for something. Additionally, I no longer have to read posts by the 24% crowd calling me a “true conservative” with quotes o’sarcasm (you know who they are). Not any more, bitches. I repudiate you, your party, and whatever the fuck it is you are currently pretending is “conservatism.” It isn’t.

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My comment:

Until the 2000 election I thought of myself as an Independent. I found merit in some of the things Republicans said and I found merit in some of the things Democrats said. Then came the aftermath of 2000. But I figured, what can one man possibly do? Hell, at least he's picking up some old hands as advisers (Cheney and Rumsfeld to name a couple). They'll keep him on the straight and narrow. Besides, the steering the ship of state is like trying to maneuver an aircraft carrier. It takes a lot of effort to make a small change in course, right? And when you come right down to it, both parties look a lot alike most of the time, right?

How wrong I was.

By the time 2004 arrived, I was pretty radicalized. (Thank you, GW, for getting me involved!)

Oh ... and Republicans ... where I once gave you credibility on issues of personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility and all around level headedness in the face of Democratic idealism ... forget it. I would rather work with Democrats and Liberals, trying to curb their enthusiasm than to try to cure the rampant insanity on the Right. You've wasted all of your credibility, your political capital, and your honor. Those are things which, once lost, are almost impossible to regain.

You've taken the first steps to balancing the budget and turned them into the largest indebtedness in history. You defend torture and support a war on a country that didn't attack us. You support the idea of starting yet another war against yet another geopolitical dwarf. You've mischaracterized those who don't see things your way - accusing them of treason, of supporting an enemy, of being disloyal - when, in fact, they are exercising their rights as citizens - the right of descent and of having an opinion different than yours. And then you favor the destruction of the very thing that distinguishes this great country from all the others - the one thing that makes this nation great - The Constitution - that systems of rules and checks and balances that has kept us on an even keel for more than 200 years! You want to give that up for an all powerful President - who looks and smells and walks and talks like every petty dictator that ever ruled a Banana Republic.

The sin of the American Left is to offer hope in a troubled world. They offer to work at fixing a broken government (one that you seem to have broken). All you seem to offer is fear and debt and war and death to a time and place well beyond the foreseeable future.

Yes. Everything changed after 9/11 - at least for you everything changed. You went insane with fear - and became the thing you feared the most.

You feared the repression of Communism - and you became repressive.

You were angered by the dishonesty of Communism - and you became dishonest.

You braced at the idea of the police state of Communism - now you want a police state.

You mocked the Commies for their "show trials" - now you hold show trials.

You condemned Communism for prison gulags and torture - now you have them and you support it.

You were appalled when the USSR's KGB spied on their citizens - and now you want to spy on ours - using the same second rate lie they used: "If you're innocent, you have nothing to fear."

You decried their violent interventions in other countries; Afghanistan, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany - and now you can't move an army into another country fast enough!

Communism didn't work. Shame on Communism. But worse, you have learned nothing from their mistakes and nothing from your own. Shame on you!

You have become your own worst nightmare and the mirror of history will convict you of all the crimes you were so attentive to in others. You call yourselves Americans? What makes you different from them?