Reply #31: And pushing us out at the local party level...

[tnlefty]

my experience anyway.

I'm sure that I'll be volunteering in the Gov.'s race here 'cause any Dem would be better than Zach fucking Wamp in the Gov.'s mansion.

Our life circumstances aren't the same - my family used to be republican, but I rejected that by the time post registration and my first vote. I hear ya, I'm in my 5th decade, and I won't stop criticizing what the Democratic Party has become. In my early years the repubs weren't nearly as bad, not into union busting, hating on the gays, women, etc.

I was considered a conservative/moderate democrat. Now, I'm considered part of the leftwing, lunatic fringe...I haven't changed and my recovering republican mother who voted for Obama is looking for someone to the left of him.:wow:

The commonalities: the right has become too corporate and batshit crazy for Mom, reproductive rights, the giveaways to Wall Street, NAFTA and other trade agreements, lied into wars and draining of the treasury, torture, the influence of religion into politics...

I'd be willing to be that if my Mom signed on here, she'd be slammed, so how much have the 2 major parties changed? You keep on keepin' on. :hug: