OK, OK, before you haul me off to a padded cell, let me first assure you that I haven't lost my mind.
Here are the (only) reasons I would consider becoming a Democrat.
1) To save the Democrat Party from the modern Democrats. The Party has gone nutty, having been almost entirely taken over by people who more closely align themselves ideologically with Socialists and the European Labor Party than with the Democratic platform. JFK today would be a Republican, no doubt. The party needs some sane free market-loving, constitution-respecting people in it again. If the Democrat Party is to be saved from the uber-left, somebody has to be willing to be a Democrat that can inject some common sense back into the party.
2) Because we need at least 2 viable parties to exist so that there can be some semblance of checks and balances in the Senate and the House. Can the Democrat Party survive having been taken over by Marxists? Probably not, in my opinion. We saw it happening in this election: Progressives and Marxists forcing Democrat voters that actually like the American way into the Republican Party. Keep going like that and they could essentially implode our current party system by making the Democrat Party shrink tremendously, giving the Republican Party free reign. But I'm OK with a useless Party going under once in a while. It is how the free-market of ideas works, after all. Perhaps we could then have a Libertarian Party and a Conservative Party, or maybe a Libertarian Party and a Republican Party. There would still be plenty of fireworks in either scenario, and we might actually get back on the right track instead of always having to try to derail the train to dictatorship.
3) To help the Democrats actually get some decent people on the ballot. Again, we saw how that went for the Democrats this election. *cough*Al Greene*cough* In my state the people of each party who show up and get chosen as delegates pick who gets to be on the ballot. Here in Utah we had a massive Republican turnout, but the Democrats could hardly get anybody to attend the primaries. That's sad. But, in all honesty, I wouldn't go show up to a Democratic delegate meeting or a primary to cast a vote because ultimately that would be dishonest, and I'm not willing to sell my integrity to save the Democrats from themselves.
Truth be told, I can think of reasons to become a Democrat, but I couldn't make myself do it. You might have to do it for me. :o)
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ReplyDeleteI think that pretty well sums it up, Christopher. Hahaha
ReplyDeleteYou can write this because you come from a conservative state where you are reassured that there will always at least a few Republicans in power to balance things out. As for me, I don't want one Democrat on the ballot here in CA because that's all we've had for many years. There aren't 2 parties here anymore; just shades of blue and RINOs. CA needs just the opposite--a switching of parties from Dem to Rep in order to (using your justification) 1)save the party from RINOS 2)have 2 viable parties exist and 3)help Republicans get some decent people on the ballot.
ReplyDeleteGreat point, Anonymous!
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