I’m a voting life long registered Dem.
But I haven’t voted that way in 27 years.
As for why I haven’t changed party affiliations...
Because I have come to believe that George Washington was right about the dangers posed by political parties.
I believe both parties serve Deep State.
I vote for anyone espousing conservative principles.
I vote for MAGA.
And I don’t give a rat’s patootie about the letter after the same.
If you’d ever been to a Trump rally, this wouldn’t surprise you.
You’d’ve seen a lot of us at Trump rallies.
And I was not criticizing, just curious. I get it. Do you live in a state that allows you to cross over in primaries?
Saw a bunch of people who were Democrats, had voted for Obama etc espouse disgust at the displays by the left last night on Twitter.
Most were saying things like “I’m done with the democrat party” or variations of it.
You remind me of my County Commissioner when I was much younger. He was a dem, but quite conservative. My father asked him once why he didn’t change parties, since his stances did not align with his party. He said that this way he got the votes of the democrats who voted party first and the Republicans who looked at the record.
“I believe both parties serve Deep State.
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And I don’t give a rat’s patootie about the letter after the same.”
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As we have all seen, and as you undoubtedly know, there are quite a lot of alleged Republicans who are as much a part of (and enamored with) the Deep State as most Democrats are. Starting with the vast majority of the Republican presidential slate in the early primaries in 2016, the guys that Trump beat like a rented mule because he had a coherent message that resonated with not just Republican voters, but with quite a number of Democrats also.
We are advised as young people not to judge a book by its cover. There are some good and decent Democrats, though a far smaller number than they used to be, and there are some absolutely shitheel Republicans. The cover on the book means nothing as does the letter after the name. As an example, were he alive and a lot younger, I would be happy to vote for JFK in today’s environment. I would not have voted for him in 1960 had I even been alive, let alone of voting age, because I think Nixon would’ve made a better president. But the JFK of the early 1960s was head and shoulders above virtually all Republicans of today in being a true patriot with good instincts for doing the right thing.
You should continue to do what Charlie Kirk would have undoubtedly advised you to do, which is to stick to your guns. You have obviously sat and thought about morality and politics quite a lot, and you have reached conclusions that makes sense to you on both a moral and political level. No one has a right to tell you that you’re wrong on values issues, though they may challenge you on some facts. I, personally, have never been a Democrat, and only ever voted for one in my life because I thought that the Republican he was running against was an absolute and total POS (Clinton in 1992, running against Deep State Bush - not that it made any difference, I was living in New Jersey at the time, and the winner of that state’s electoral votes was a forgone conclusion). You do you, and do what you think is right in your eyes and those of God above. Don’t let anybody tell you that your party affiliation means a damned thing, because it honestly doesn’t.
I have never registered as a member of any political party, nor have I ever considered myself a member of one. I have never, and will never, vote for a Democrat, but I don’t always vote Republican. I recognized at an early age that a lot of Republicans were scumbags, starting with Bush Sr.
Most of this administration is made up of Democrats. Former, but only because the lurching of the Overton window made remaining in the party impossible.
The primaries are the only elections that matter in my local elections. I live in the “liberal” part of my township — where Trump got only 84% of the vote in 2024.