This started as a comment on another article but I was asked to put it up as an article in it's own right. Actually Sheryl O. Seems to think it may hit a cord with a lot of people. Whether it does or doesn't, the result is below.
I'm going to tell you a story, about a moderate republican that got tired of hearing many of his stances cast as loony liberal pap, by his own party, which started using wedge issues to win elections, and then rain havoc on the middle and lower classes, though never as brazenly as in the last six years. Always promising tax cuts, that always turn out to be tax cuts for the wealthy, and whatever we got was eaten up by subsequent deficits.
In other words, the right wing that took over the Republican party, until it was no longer the Republican party at all, except in name. There used to actually be compassionate conservatives, not just a talking point. There used to be fiscal conservatism, not just lip service, and so on. But they cast me left, as the party moved right, and now, after the excesses of the wingnut right, and all the names they could call me, and the derision they show for anyone with an opposing view, I am no longer apolitical, and no longer a Republican. I decided it was time to fight back, because no one was, and the lies have gained too much traction, and they have indoctrinated too many people, till now I can't probably even stay civil all the time. I get tired of the lies, the uninformed, those that believe every thing they are told.
Neocons are Evil, not just bad politicians. Their agenda is the subjugation of the lower classes, and the rule of elites, at their expense. It's nothing new, it's what the rich have tried to go back to since the rise of the working class at the turn of the last century, just in brand new think tank shoes and rhetoric. Independent is my title now, and probably will be, at this point, till I die. I don't share a few of the heartfelt Democratic ideals, and I sure don't share the Neocon's, so here I am, a man without a party. Somehow, I think I have a lot of company, these days.
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From an Always-Been Democrat...
But, I lately, thinking to go politically-agnostic.
Let us all begin to see the light and come to realize that the 'divide and conquer' routine of our past history will no longer work on us. Let us begin to cooperate on the middle ground areas that benefit everyone so much more than the current winner/loser syndrome.
It started with Gingrich and the ascension of talk radio, the ignorant, non fact based reality bubble that developed into fox news. They are anything but fair and balanced and even if I disagreed with someone's politics, I didn't like seeing them personally attacked on the level they were doing it. I remember when Republicans and democrats actually respected each other, and worked together in the knowledge that both wanted what was best for the country, but all of a sudden that wasn't true anymore. The right took the tack that if you weren't with them, you were against them, and no prisoners would be taken. Whatever you think of Clinton, the absolute blood lust that talk radio and Gingrich and his crowd threw up, was totally ridiculous. These people now that talk about respecting the presidency even if you don't respect the man have short memories.
No, at one time the really polarizing issues were not used that much. Republican think tanks came up with the tactic of using them to make people vote against their own best interests, using them. I lived through that stuff. A candidates personal life was off limits, to a large extent, as well.