Reply #45: I was sort of hoping you wouldn't become a Democrat

[Alcibiades]

OK, not you specifically, but folks like you. I have been waiting for the moderate, mainstream Republicans to put down their dogwhistles and say enough is enough to the crazy lunatic fringe that has become the voice of the GOP today. Instead, they egg them on, while decrying the coarseness of public debate. This has left us with no debating partner. Instead, while we talk about policy, they get crazier and crazier. In the aggregate, if all the non-crazy, non-hateful folks leave the Republican Party, the net effect would be to make our party less liberal and leave only lunatics in the GOP And I don't actually like the idea of a GOP that becomes a small fringe party full of angry people who feel like they have no voice, because people like that do stupid things.

But welcome to DU anyway. :toast: