The quote from Constance Grady of Vox encapsulates why I have changed my political affiliation to independent. The woke are making "forever democrats" like me reassess my politics. Instead of left, I consider myself in the middle.
The quote from Constance Grady of Vox encapsulates why I have changed my political affiliation to independent. The woke are making "forever democrats" like me reassess my politics. Instead of left, I consider myself in the middle.
IтАЩm also a former тАЬforever democrat тАЬ, now I have changed my party affiliation to independent. Bottom line, IтАЩm a centrist. I have tried for so long to contort my mind and heart into buying into the extreme left progressive types of policies. I just reached a point of exhaustion and couldnтАЩt do it anymore. On social policy lean a bit right, economically I lean more left. As my grandma used to always sayтАж тАЬalmost always, the truth lies somewhere in the middleтАЭ. When people ask me my opinion about these complex issues that trouble our society and then start hassling me about my answer I just say тАЬif you donтАЩt want my opinion, donтАЩt ask me for it. You donтАЩt have to like what I say or agree with me but I will speak my truth and you canтАЩt compel me to say something I donтАЩt believeтАЭ.
The House GOP Twitter account recently Tweeted "If the booster shots work, why don't they work?"
If you're in the middle, you'll be voting Dem. The Republican Party has lost its mind. (66% of GOP voters think the 2020 election was stolen). The "woke" you are so concerned about are largely academics and activists who have no real power in the Democratic Party.
Don't forget the people who gave us such gems as 'people with penises,' BIPOC, and Latinex! Nor should we forget the people who start literally every gathering with the ritual recitation of the endlessly proliferating pronouns.
As far as I can tell, these 'powerless' academics and activists have done a bang-up job in radicalizing youth, and thereby shaping discourse and praxis in a whole helluva lot of institutions, including the Democratic Party. In my rather large corner of the nonprofit world, the young and woke exert a powerful influence, we're awash in postmodern, neo-marxian ideology, and it's critical theory wherever one turns.
Leaving academia was one of the the best decisions I've ever made (so yes, I've actually read a metric ton of so-called Theory). Leaving the Dems is also on that list of good decisions. Not looking back.
Until the exhausted center has a party or parties of its own, we must remember that not all who wander are lost. What we really need are some code phrases or a secret sign to identify 'fellow travelers' (sorry, couldn't resist!). For now, I watch to see who doesn't give their pronouns in meeting and emails.
As to Matt Mullen's assertion above, I most definitely won't be voting Dem next time around, as I'm a firm believer in natural consequences and won't reward bad behavior. I'm ok with protest voting until a better alternative presents itself. And I'm pretty sure I'm far from alone in these sentiments...
IтАЩm switching to independent from Republican. Both extremes are the problem and centrists in both parties have lost control. Centrists have the majority. ItтАЩs time we started using it.
Couldn't agree more with both comments! I'm another newly-minted independent, I've left team blue and won't return until sanity is restored, which may well be never. We are legion, but we are not organized. I'm hoping ranked-choice voting continues to catch on, as that creates real opportunities for new parties to provide us with real voting options.
The quote from Constance Grady of Vox encapsulates why I have changed my political affiliation to independent. The woke are making "forever democrats" like me reassess my politics. Instead of left, I consider myself in the middle.
IтАЩm also a former тАЬforever democrat тАЬ, now I have changed my party affiliation to independent. Bottom line, IтАЩm a centrist. I have tried for so long to contort my mind and heart into buying into the extreme left progressive types of policies. I just reached a point of exhaustion and couldnтАЩt do it anymore. On social policy lean a bit right, economically I lean more left. As my grandma used to always sayтАж тАЬalmost always, the truth lies somewhere in the middleтАЭ. When people ask me my opinion about these complex issues that trouble our society and then start hassling me about my answer I just say тАЬif you donтАЩt want my opinion, donтАЩt ask me for it. You donтАЩt have to like what I say or agree with me but I will speak my truth and you canтАЩt compel me to say something I donтАЩt believeтАЭ.
The House GOP Twitter account recently Tweeted "If the booster shots work, why don't they work?"
If you're in the middle, you'll be voting Dem. The Republican Party has lost its mind. (66% of GOP voters think the 2020 election was stolen). The "woke" you are so concerned about are largely academics and activists who have no real power in the Democratic Party.
3/4 of Democrats believe SCOTUS decided the 2000 election.
WhatтАЩs your point?
If the academics and activists are such empty losers why do you parrot them so readily?
Don't forget the people who gave us such gems as 'people with penises,' BIPOC, and Latinex! Nor should we forget the people who start literally every gathering with the ritual recitation of the endlessly proliferating pronouns.
As far as I can tell, these 'powerless' academics and activists have done a bang-up job in radicalizing youth, and thereby shaping discourse and praxis in a whole helluva lot of institutions, including the Democratic Party. In my rather large corner of the nonprofit world, the young and woke exert a powerful influence, we're awash in postmodern, neo-marxian ideology, and it's critical theory wherever one turns.
Leaving academia was one of the the best decisions I've ever made (so yes, I've actually read a metric ton of so-called Theory). Leaving the Dems is also on that list of good decisions. Not looking back.
Until the exhausted center has a party or parties of its own, we must remember that not all who wander are lost. What we really need are some code phrases or a secret sign to identify 'fellow travelers' (sorry, couldn't resist!). For now, I watch to see who doesn't give their pronouns in meeting and emails.
As to Matt Mullen's assertion above, I most definitely won't be voting Dem next time around, as I'm a firm believer in natural consequences and won't reward bad behavior. I'm ok with protest voting until a better alternative presents itself. And I'm pretty sure I'm far from alone in these sentiments...
IтАЩm switching to independent from Republican. Both extremes are the problem and centrists in both parties have lost control. Centrists have the majority. ItтАЩs time we started using it.
Couldn't agree more with both comments! I'm another newly-minted independent, I've left team blue and won't return until sanity is restored, which may well be never. We are legion, but we are not organized. I'm hoping ranked-choice voting continues to catch on, as that creates real opportunities for new parties to provide us with real voting options.
I totally agree!