Hey, things change, and all of a sudden I find the reasons that I dumped the Dems so numerous that I found it necessary to compile a list. So for those who have inquired….
First of all, the first time I ever voted for president was in 1984. I voted for Mondale/Ferraro. There’s nothing I hate more than losing via complete and total wipeout. Realistically, It started when Bill Clinton signed the Crime Bill of 1994 which basically nullified the Bill of Rights. That’s where NSA Spying came from, the death of our Fourth Amendment. That’s why Red Flag Laws pop up, gun enthusiasts only think they have Second Amendment Rights. Fact is, there is no Second Amendment. Clinton and Right Wing Extremists opened the package and exposed the contents to air. I’ll despise Bill Clinton for the rest of my life. And he deserves it as much as any other Constitution hater.
Then comes Barack Obama. The savior we longed for after eight years of the natural disaster known as Bush/Cheney. Never should have trusted a Chicago politician. All those campaign promises designed to suck the ballot-happy life out of “Progressive” voters. Obama became the king of half-assed effort. Health Care…could have slam dunked Single Payer in the first two years due to Democrats literally controlling the entire government. But, instead we got Insurance reform (more power given insurance companies) and a fine for refusing to obey the King…. And millions of people who still cannot afford health care. One minute Obama was saying “There is no NSA Spying”, and trying to justify same the next. From “hopey changey” to just another greedy career politician. A failure in so many ways. A Drug War supporter. The worst kind of vermin.
Then, of course, the constant abysmal failures of the Tennessee Democratic Party to stand for Progressive values, and constantly suck Right Wing Weenie, made me ill on a daily basis. The TNDP….An order of Escargot has more backbone.
Altogether, since Bill Clinton, I have watched the Democratic party slowly descend into the deepest darkest depths of idiocy and dishonor. Once champions of moral and intellectual progress they are now antithetical to themselves. Spewers of lies. Purveyors of complete and total bullshit and showing no sign of repair. Much less remorse. As big an asshole as Donald Trump can be, Democrats (Neo Liberal, borderline Communists) have become worse. Far worse. The party has completely and totally lost direction. In fact, it wouldn’t be too far fetched to state that the Center of the Republican party is the new “Progressive” movement.
Closer to Libertarian than Right Wing Republican, they were the first to file legislative efforts to legalize Marijuana and to actually instigate Corrections Reform. Supportive of environmental stability, the Constitution of the United States, State’s Rights and Fair Trade. Fair Trade, once being a stalwart Progressive issue, Democrats now complain about laying tariffs on China when they once championed the Idea. It’s sad. The Democrats were once the Labor Party. The champions of the working American and Labor Union strength. They no longer even speak of the working American. They rally behind the lazy-asses that don’t have a work ethic to speak of. Just the insatiable desire to have everything given to them for “free”. “FREE!” The mere utterance is all it takes for a Democratic politician to score a good chunk of votes.
Yeah, the new Democratic platform. “Free” everything, free college, free trade, Reparations (“free money for racists”), free borders, free whatfuckingever your little heart desires. They’ve become idiots. Plain and simple. They lie and demand the impossible….and somehow manage to convince themselves it’s all going to happen. Bad news, folks. You’ve conned yourselves, America saw it, you have no credibility as a result.
The lies. Sooo many lies. “Donald Trump is a racist!” The guy as yet to utter one single word that could even remotely be considered “racist”. They screamed that Trump stated that there were good people among the Nazi filth that crashed a rally in support of historical Confederate monuments. A concocted CNN lie that has now been exposed. Trump said there were “good people on both sides of the monument issue”. The Nazi filth were not the subject. CNN is a disgrace that has become the new FOX NEWS. FOX, though still non-credible, are more so than CNN today. Trump told those four twits in congress to go back to the failed places they came from. Xenophobic? Sure. But not at all “racist”. Xenophobic and Patriotic often go hand in hand. Then there’s the Media Slight-of-Hand concerning immigration. In reality, Donald Trump has praised immigrants, though the media and desperate Democratic politicians accuse him by removing the word “illegal” from the context. He has condemned “Illegal Immigrants” Not “Immigrants”.
The youthful, the uneducated and easily confused, the desperate, the poor, the unemployed and underpaid. Democrats now prey upon the people they once championed. Making promises they know they can’t keep (or have no intention of keeping) to solicit votes. In the mean time, while Dems make fools of themselves in debate and on the House floor, Donald Trump and the political outsiders make strides in improving the economy, the labor force, the lives of average Americans.
The Democratic Party that once stood for the average person now stands for the hyper-sensitive, terminally offended, whiney-ass Mega-Socialists who, oddly enough, seem to enjoy a little Fascism at times.
The last thing we need in the White House is another capitulating, cowardly, politically correct asshat to make us look and actually be weak. Another Beltway-Insider that cares for no one other than themselves. The Status Quo.
I don’t care if Donald Trump is an asshole. Things are better. Fuck your feelings.
- captainkona
