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In reply to the discussion: Open letter from a constituent: "I am relieved to say I no longer think of myself as a Republican" [View all]JHB
(37,161 posts)Knowing what you know now, please consider something that might have seemed outlandish in previous years: That all of the things the Republican Party said it stood for, which were the basis of your support for it, were more PR than reality. And that it's been that way for a very long time, longer than your lifetime, even.
Your former party did not get to be the way it is overnight. It didn't happen over a matter of months.
It happened because axe-grinding and demagoguery in the service of a conservative agenda, perhaps more right-wing than you'd like to think, became the lifeblood of the party.
The Republicans act the way they do because that's how they arranged their party. They Built That.
Now that you see enough that you can't go along with that anymore, please consider that maybe there's other things you didn't see clearly previously. And that those of us in the Democratic party are not radical wildmen, just people who saw these things much, much earlier than you did.