A 47-Year-Registered Republican Is Throwing In The Towel: Here's Why

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A 47-Year-Registered Republican Is Throwing In The Towel: Here's Why

by Tyler Durden

Aug 4, 2016 8:50 PM

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Via The Burning Platform,

RE: 2016 Congressional District Census

Dear Mr. Priebus:

I recently received from you a plea – your second notice – that I complete and return the survey of my views on current issues in the United States. My views would help the party develop a campaign strategy for the important weeks ahead.

I recently dropped my registration in the Republican Party, so my opinions are irrelevant to your survey. I do, however, hope that the views expressed in this note will be of help.

I have been a registered Republican since 1969. As I have gotten older and wiser, it has become apparent to me that the GOP is the second head (a donkey represents the other) of a creature that is run by wealthy, powerful, and evil entities which have gained control of nearly every institution and business in this country. Oh, the heads squabble dramatically for the voters, and are fairly successful in convincing us that they really have a different agenda for the future, but the charade is wearing thin. The emperor’s clothes are fading away. Enter Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, offering some truth that the powers-that-be find intolerable. I understand that none of this is news to you.

I cannot in good conscience support the Republican Party any longer. The attempts by a number of party leaders to undermine the primary process and otherwise derail the instincts of the voters who favor Mr. Trump is the last straw in a decades-long growing frustration with the apparent impotence of the Republicans. No impact on the progressive agenda as it has unfolded, even now, after nearly two years of control of the House and Senate, must lead to the inescapable conclusion that the GOP is cooperating with that agenda.

I am done with being lied to by party leaders.

As some leaders of the GOP have started expressing preference for Hillary Clinton over Mr. Trump, their true allegiance to the aforementioned powers rather than the American people becomes obvious. Their self-righteous condemnation of Trump’s views and persona only strengthen his popularity, because a lot of people, like me, are no longer impressed by anything these people have to say and assume the opposite must be true. I am always amused by complaints that Mr. Trump is a boorish, clumsy speaker. How many smooth-talking politicians have screwed over the American people during the past 50 years? I offer up our current president as a prime example, and I regret that Paul Ryan falls in the same category.

These are difficult times for our country and the world. It would help if there existed a political party that actually possessed a modicum of integrity and would actually fight for a healthy economy and a foreign policy that was based on some sort of realistic assessment of America’s place in the world. I suggest the reform of the GOP into an organization that actually pursues the values it espouses would change everything.

Sincerely...

[Hodar]

Bttt

Exactly my sentiments

[grania]

....a viable alternative to the two major parties...

The Libertarians seem to have been co-opted by elite globalists who want cheap labor and no taxes on nation-destroying adventures. The Greens are just plain crazy. The dissident dems have been lead to slaughter by Sanders, then abandoned.

Our only path to maybe saving the US is Trump's presidency. Without that, why not benefit from their treachery? Pick up the remnants of the Republican Party when those who've destroyed the nation move on.

[TTFlyer]

You wouldn’t know logic if it jumped up and bit you on the ass. Stick it where the sun don’t shine moron.

[nevergore]

Stupid..... we are winning the fight within the party , need reinforcements and this clown leaves!?!
At least take it all the way and wait to leave when the last battle is fought if we lose....

[ought-six]

“I quit the Republican party many years ago. November 2008 to be exact.”

I’m joining you this year.

[ought-six]

“I can’t express in words how much I hate the Republican Party. I can’t express in words how much I LOATHE and gag with DISGUST at the thought of the Dhimmicrats.”

My sentiments exactly.

[ought-six]

“Republicans have let Obama and Democrats get away with too much and to see them going hard against Trump says everything about them.”

That’s a fact.

[central_va]

What did the Republican Party expect when they got in bed with the globalists NWO? Did they expect that was gong to enhance personal freedoms? It just enhanced corporate profits and killed the middle class.

I would say the ball really got rolling when NAFTA was passed. Bush 41 gets a lot of the blame as well as fat talk show hosts.

[SueRae]

Times 10!! Exactly how I feel.

[central_va]

Just leave the rest of us alone to live a peaceable and productive life! Why can’t they do that?

I've often pondered that over a beer or two.

It seems it must be a competition thing. How many vacation homes do you have? Only 7 ha!

[ought-six]

“The GOP couldn’t care less but my vote for Trump this November will be my last ever for a Republican.”

I hear what you’re saying. I will never vote for a Dim, as I see them as treacherous and traitorous, lower than pond scum. And the Republicans have become feckless wimps who cower at loud noises.

A pox on both their houses!

[ought-six]

I think the poster meant that the Republican Party — as it presently stands — is not worth supporting. And I agree with him. However, Trump has a message that has created and inspired a movement WITHIN the Republican Party, though the Republican Party — as it presently stands — is terrified of that message and that movement, thus it attacks Trump. Trump can save the Republican party by transforming it.

[mastertex]

I don’t care who you vote for Nor does anyone else....BUTT if you don’t vote for the Republicans, then you simply “cut of your nose to spite your face”....why not just get in a hole and cover it up yourself.....DAMN....folks like you said that about Barry O and look at what we have now....don’t be a complete FOOL!!!

[HotHunt]

Every time I hear one of my friends say that Trump needs to act more presidential, I respond with, "You mean Presidential, like all of the other loser politicians that have held that office recently? THAT KIND of presidential?"

I don't think so. I want Trump to be Trump and let the chips fall where they may. If people are so sensitive that they need the candidate to "sound" and "act" a certain way, like other past presidents, then we are in trouble.

Why does Trump need to act like the guys he beat? I think he will make a great, if not different, president. As a matter of fact, I think he could be "huge!"

[campaignPete R-CT]

loser

[rlmorel]

I am the same. I didn’t leave the Republican party, it left me.

I vote Republican, but that is because there is no viable alternative. It is vote Republican, or do not vote.

For many years that lever has been pulled while holding my own nose.

There was a time when I would ridicule people who said there is no difference between the two parties, but it is getting to the point that if they either do nothing as elected officials to oppose liberals, adopt more liberal positions as a matter of finding common ground, or simply becoming more liberal overall, then the essential difference between the two parties has shrunken dramatically in the last several decades. If people profess to be conservative to get elected and remain in office, but act in ways diametrically opposed to that, that simply makes them liberal liars, essentially...liberals.

Compromising with evil is still evil.

[Flick Lives]

The Democrat and Republican Parties are a Punch-and-Judy show run by the same puppeteer.

[Jim Noble]

That’s excellent, really good.

It highlights two things, one good, one bad.

Good: The People,the loyal ones, have developed enough self-consciousness and solidarity to nominate a major party candidate.

Bad: The leaders of that party, and the machinery that controls public information (entertainment, news, polls, donors) all are on the other side.

[ought-six]

Did you read my post #32? I suggest you do before you start flaming me.

[MichaelCorleone]

“Our only path to maybe saving the US is Trump’s presidency.”

Totally agree. In fact I’m working (although not officially) to make the undecided understand not only where we are as a nation, but where we will most certainly be if Trump is not Chief Executive next January.

I’ve found that the only way to convince people of things is to have them figure it out for themselves.

I was only asking someone else why, if they had such (understandably) strong negative feeling for both parties, he/she never worked to give the electorate a viable alternative. Just a question; not proposing anything.