"Is there sanctuary for the disenchanted Republicans in THIS Democratic Party"

[sofa king]

19. Thank you for your considered response.

Congratulations on discovering empathy after 25 years. I really mean that, and it does give me some hope.

But I note that your conversion appears to come after 25 years of supporting the party that tore at the social fabric until your friends began falling through it. Then it became serious. I will not recite the list of unforgivable events that transpired in the time before you changed your mind, which did not affect anyone you cared about.

If another forty million people who are just a little less thoughtful than you wander over to our side, we're not going to convert them, we are going to become them, and the Democratic Party will inherit the mantle of callous indifference which is and has been the hallmark of the Republican Party for the past 50 years.

Again, I appreciate your efforts and I sincerely hope you are learning that helping others is its own reward, but please don't leave the door open once you've come in.