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I no longer wish to be represented by a group that is full of psychotics that wish to spread their "interpretation" why God hates the poor, homosexuals, woman, and minorities.
Exactly. I voted Republican in every election from when I first was of voting age up until the Tea Party came into being and took over the Republican party.
George "Dubya" Bush was a disgrace to this nation, and while Clinton and Obama are no prizes, Dubya is uniquely horrible in his mismanagement: endless wars we can't afford, the Patriot Act, the Housing Bubble and Great Recession... seriously, if this clown and his cronies had set out to destroy this nation, they couldn't have done a better job.
I have no love of either party, but that fool showing by the Republicans was enough to get me to question them... and then the Tea Party hit the stage. Suddenly, I was supposed to: hate minorities, worship corporations, disbelieve in science, and be opposed to separation of church and state - but only for one religion - if I was to find a home in the Tea Party driven Republican party.
That was bad enough, but then I had the "opportunity" to work side by side with Tea Party supporters on a daily basis at a failing machine shop, and I was appalled. Racism was par for the course, along with ignorance and hatred. Of the two old, angry Tea Party nuts in my department, one of them couldn't go a week without a rage-filled rant about how "those people" - except he used the n-word - were responsible for every problem in this nation. Sometimes, he'd change it up and scream about gays, Mexicans, etc. but it was always the same bigoted theme. The other, older clown was just as bad, and even gave me a KKK recruitment speech once, telling me that what the Klan does is "okay" because "what they do to blacks is just expressing their 1st Amendment rights!" Yeah... sure... because the 1st Amendment covers lynchings... Top that off with the patriot murder fantasies - both of them loudly dreamed about "that day" when they could finally start killing the "people who needed killing," which were always: blacks, gays, people in the government, "communists," "liberals" and so on... well, the end result was disgusting.
As long as the Republican party keeps knuckling under to the Tea Party loons, I will not support them, nor will I support a party represented by ignorant, violent morons such as the people I worked with who were life-long Republicans and huge fans of the Tea Party.
I no longer wish to be represented by a group that is full of psychotics that wish to spread their "interpretation" why God hates the poor, homosexuals, woman, and minorities.
Interesting, I'm a republican, don't care about god or the bible, my best friend is a lesbian, I've been married to the same woman for 35 years, and I am black, my wife is white. So who are you talking about?
And what major world changing event happened in Dec. 1991? What major bubble grew and burst in March of 2000 and also started the rush from technology to something "safer" in real estate?
That is what the lying democrats tell you and of course you believe it..
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You were probably never a 'Pub, but I'm sure you enjoy you new life as an Obot.
These are two great quotes why the GOP is having issues and why I left. That people who disagree don't actually have a differing opinion, they are brainwashed sheeple part of some conspiracy.
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For God so loved the world, he gave his own begotten son, that WHOSOEVER believes in him shall have everlasting life..
I also don't get this...it's like the GOP existed back when Jesus was alive. That is just weird.
These are two great quotes why the GOP is having issues and why I left. That people who disagree don't actually have a differing opinion, they are brainwashed sheeple part of some conspiracy.
I also don't get this...it's like the GOP existed back when Jesus was alive. That is just weird.
A war has been created, to have us at each others throats, while they the government, stack the deck under the table.
It happened the same way in 1858.
This isn't mine, though I did go from slightly conservative to liberal. She makes some good points:
Guess it doesn't bother the person who wrote that article that Clinton's economic success brought about most of the problems our nation is facing today. Such as twisting the arms of the banks to make sure people got loans whether they had a way of repaying them or not was not in the equation and taking money out of the SS piggy bank.
I went the opposite direction. I even voted for McGovern. Then I grew up and started noticing what was really going on. I got smarter as I got older. Maybe we just have too many young people voting now. When did the voting age go from 21 to 18? Maybe we need a rule that says one cannot vote until they have been out of public education for at least 5 years and then they won't be voting Kool Aid.
A war has been created, to have us at each others throats, while they the government, stack the deck under the table.
It happened the same way in 1858.
I no longer wish to be represented by a group that is full of psychotics that wish to spread their "interpretation" why God hates the poor, homosexuals, woman, and minorities.
Same here.
Lifelong republican who, in my mid 30s, has grown sick of defending misogynist religious morons and the ass hats they run for office.
I never wanted to be this bitter/cynical about the government, but dem or repub, they are all paid-for wh*res with no interest in really helping anyone.
Lifelong republican who, in my mid 30s, has grown sick of defending misogynist religious morons and the ass hats they run for office.
I never wanted to be this bitter/cynical about the government, but dem or repub, they are all paid-for wh*res with no interest in really helping anyone.
Helping anyone with their own money or ripping it out of the hands of others to buy votes. I would also like to see a statistic as to the charitable donations of both parties. If you want to be charitable, you should use your own money to do so.
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.....I never wanted to be this bitter/cynical about the government, but dem or repub, they are all paid-for wh*res with no interest in really helping anyone.
Yes ..... I like the theoretical stances of Democrats better, but in practice they're not much better than Republicans. Just look at Obama kneeling in front of Wall St advisors, and Obama and Feinstein vigorously defending the total loss of privacy in unconstitutional practices implemented by the NSA and revealed by Snowden, whom they call a traitor.
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