This Is The End, My Friend…

Believe it or not, I was a Republican in my twenties. Sure, that party had its right wing extremists, war mongers, racists; but it also had centrist progressives like John Lindsey, Nelson Rockefeller. We even had principled conservatives like William Buckley, who famously chased the crazies out of the party. Then came Nixon’s cynical “southern strategy”,where he sold the party to the racist Dixiecrats to get elected and its been downhill ever since. Now the party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump, Roy Moore, and a bunch of sniveling moral idiots in Congress. A few years’  ago, I left the Democrats too, fed up with their hypocrisy in supporting civil rights while continuing to involve America in useless wars and terrible anti-drug policies, so I have no skin in this game. Washington warned us against the divisive nature of political parties, and his predictions have come true with our outdated two-party system. Hey voters you get to choose between the huckster racist or the morally compromised Neocon!