I went with a small group of them to a "townhall" at a high school audtitrium to hear our Congressional rep, a longtime entrenched D. Every single time anyone asked her a tough question - this was right before Obama Care passed the House, there were small groups in each of the four corners of the room who would start to rhythmically clap and scream," WE LOVE YOU [insert name of the Congressciritter] " They'd drown out the tough questioner each forced to stop and sit down, the Rep would smirk and ask a pasty-pal for a softball question. I was dumbfound. I now knew what it was like to be in an Orwell's 1984 with Big Brother rule. One Party rule. No dissent ever allowed.
I was too. Back when Dems were what Centrists are now. Then Greenpeace (who I donated to) started blowing shizzle up and I thought to myself, “This isn’t a well-meaning activity organization, it’s a terrorist group.” I stopped sending them $ and left the party, only to return years later so that I could vote against Crooked Hilary in the FL primaries (and we all know how THAT turned out 🤦♀️). I left again and haven’t looked back. I and so many others consider ourselves Classical Liberals, which more closely resembles the Republican Party today…though even they have their own taint. Given all of that, I do believe people can change. But only if they can recognize and reconcile the cognitive dissonance they’ve been living with for YEARS.
Changed me from moderate right to ‘WTF are we doing here’ right, lol.
I thought Tea Partiers were just a bunch of cranky old men, perhaps not.
I went with a small group of them to a "townhall" at a high school audtitrium to hear our Congressional rep, a longtime entrenched D. Every single time anyone asked her a tough question - this was right before Obama Care passed the House, there were small groups in each of the four corners of the room who would start to rhythmically clap and scream," WE LOVE YOU [insert name of the Congressciritter] " They'd drown out the tough questioner each forced to stop and sit down, the Rep would smirk and ask a pasty-pal for a softball question. I was dumbfound. I now knew what it was like to be in an Orwell's 1984 with Big Brother rule. One Party rule. No dissent ever allowed.
I was, too.
Me too. A whole new meaning for that phrase!
I was too. Back when Dems were what Centrists are now. Then Greenpeace (who I donated to) started blowing shizzle up and I thought to myself, “This isn’t a well-meaning activity organization, it’s a terrorist group.” I stopped sending them $ and left the party, only to return years later so that I could vote against Crooked Hilary in the FL primaries (and we all know how THAT turned out 🤦♀️). I left again and haven’t looked back. I and so many others consider ourselves Classical Liberals, which more closely resembles the Republican Party today…though even they have their own taint. Given all of that, I do believe people can change. But only if they can recognize and reconcile the cognitive dissonance they’ve been living with for YEARS.
Thinking that the answer lies in either of the ping ponging parties is idiotic.
My motto is Never an R or D Again!