I enjoy knowing why people do things. Was it to get them rich? Did they crave being famous? Were they hard workers? Did they make a lot of money? Was their work important?
Well I mentioned I was born as a loyal Democrat. Because it was 1938. The nation was loyal to FDR. Few posters were alive when he was the living president. I was grateful for many many years. For over 40 years in fact. My parents adored him. They taught me Republicans are evil. They are simply for the rich. They hate the common man. It was a driving force to ensure I was a loyal Democrat.
Jimmy Carter let me down. He comes across as a nice old man. But he is an authoritarian. I did not get that about Democrats for a very long time.
I want to present a woman who was a very loyal Democrat too. She changed her mind. She did so faster than I did. Welcome to a very smart woman who will explain her views to us all.
Today the headlines is Biden has imposed new laws against Truckers. Imagine they feed us. They bring clothes to us. They keep stores open.
Democrats brag that even Trump was a loyal Democrat. Look how they became vicious against Trump to the point they work hard daily to put him into a prison. Is that the new credo of Democrats?
When I registered to vote for the first time in Texas a LONG time ago, the clerk just automatically stamped my voter registration DEMOCRAT. I suppose had I objected, she would have changed it of course, but it was just what Texans, at least in that part of the world, were at that time. Everybody were Democrats and, while we didn't think badly of Republicans, they just didn't factor into the system.
Being a Democrat was a noble thing then. You cared enough to register to vote and you voted for responsible, efficient, effective government that served the people instead of themselves.
But I was also well educated by competent educators in the principles and ethics of good journalism AND good government. And I was aware when all that began to be compromised or ignored. And gradually I came to understand that the Republicans, while they could also be self serving, were supporting concepts, ideals, practical solutions that I believed in. The Democrats not so much. Watching how affirmative action and the promotion of the ERA were causing more problems than solved, and especially observing the inhumanity, futility, and terrible waste and carnage of Vietnam, I made the intentional choice to leave the Democrat Party because it had first left me.
I've never looked back. Though the Republican Party has become something quite different than the smart and strong reformers of the Newt Gingrich era, it still represents the people most likely to support the intent of the Constitution and who don't want a sugar daddy government but rather a strong, free, secure, prosperous America where ALL Americans can reach for the options, choices, opportunities, prosperity of the American dream.
I consider myself Independent. But I will vote straight Republican ticket at all levels because I have witnessed first hand how destructive and unAmerican the Democrats have become.
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