Veteran Democrat bails out on party
Veteran Democrat bails out on party (link)
My family has voted Democrat since before the Great Depression. I grew up believing that FDR and JFK were American saints since both were spoken about in hushed tones and given the same reverence as those I learned about in Catholic school.
However, I now realize that I no longer subscribe to the ideals held by the party, as evidenced by Michael Moore and Jimmy Carter’s prominent place in the Kerry campaign, and Howard Dean’s takeover of the DNC. The party of FDR and JFK no longer exists. The Democratic Party has become a party afraid of change, afraid of fighting injustice in the world, and afraid of standing up to its corporate benefactors that profit from its stances on illegal immigration and tort reform.
While I do not agree with 100% of the Republican platform, I do see it as a progressive party that is willing to consider my opinions and is not beholden to reactionary ideologues like Carter, Moore and Dean. The party has a fetishistic devotion to the United Nations – an organization where the majority of members are non-democratic. It reveres people like Moore – who compared the murderers in Iraq, the ones who behead civilians and force retarded children to be suicide bombers, to America’s Minutemen, and Jeanine Garofalo – who compared the “thumbs-up” sign of the Iraqi voters to Nazi “Heil Hitlers.” Now it is about to elevate Dean to head its National Committee – a man who once said that Osama Bin Laden was innocent until proven guilty of the 9-11 attacks.
I hope to someday return to the party, but it will only be once it has come to its senses which it has obviously lost.
