Political Parties Have Changed

I admit it.  While I was growing up, my parents were died-in-the-wool democrats.  I grew up thinking the Democrat party was what I should believe in.  I liked JFK.  LBJ didn't interest me much.  He was a little too liberal for me then.  But when the Democrat party placed abortion in its platform it lost me.  The party moved where I would not go so I abandoned the Democrat party and attached myself to the Republican party.  I was pretty comfortable there until George W. Bush was elected. 

I began to see that the Republican party was beginning to drift to the position the Democrat party used to be and the Democrat party was becoming more socialist minded than republic minded.  I determined to call the two parties, the Demican party and the Repubicrat party.  I began to look for a 3rd party to which I could attach myself. 

I looked at the Libertarian Party.  Unfortunately their platform is a little goofy.  They have planks that I cannot sustain such as decreminalizing drugs.  They had a plank regarding religion that I couldn't sustain either and there are other segments that I can't support.

I looked at the Constitution Party too.  There are many things that I like in the Constitution Party.  Their planks regarding family, God, and individual are pleasing.  However the Constitution Party has its warts too. 

So now, what to do is the question.  Over the past few years I've thought perhaps I could stay attached to the Republican party and work from within to move it to the right.  However, I believe the leaders of the Republican party are too happy with their perceived power to ever permit the party to move to real conservatism. 

I've worried that there will need to be a revolution to right this listing ship.  I don't want to see an actual war, but I do want to see a political remake to return this nation to it's founding documents, to throw off the cycle of tax and spend, to return independence to the individual and family, to return the family as the basic unit of political power.

I'll bet I'll never see it happen.  There are too many drones in our society.  There are too many takers and not enough producers.  We've let the entrepreneurial spirit escape us. We, as a people, no longer have the unquenchable desire to excell.  I mourn the loss.