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Ashethan posted...

I'll never understand people who look at the Democrats and then look at the Republicans and say "I could NEVER be a Democrat. But I'm perfectly okay with being a Republican. Those guys are swell."

Going by strictly the political ideologies without all the BS attached, I'm more of a centrist. However, the Republican party's overall bigotry and ignorance of science, which has grown especially worse in the last decade, combined with their awful Presidential candidates (with the exception of McCain), has made my vote really easy every time. When McCain chose Palin as VP, it made that vote easy as well.

I never strongly identified as Democrat until these last few years, but I've been noticing myself thinking of the Democratic party as a "we" in recent years, which is not something I had done before.

The ideology itself isn't the problem. It's that the party itself has completely lost track of that ideology and has instead loaned itself to hatred and willful ignorance, with all signs saying they will only continue down that track. If it could ever actually evolve past that, back to it's basics, I could see a time where I vote for a Republican. I simply don't expect that's ever going to happen. It feels like they've gone past redemption.

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