It's official ladies and gentlemen I have left the Republican party.
(The irony of the color of this slip gave me a chuckle.)
My decision to leave the Republican party wasn't a hard one to make. As I attempt to articulate my reasons for doing this I find writing a post considerably harder then I thought it would be. If we were not in the digital age I assure you that I would be waist deep in crumpled pieces of paper.
One point I feel I must touch upon is that my decision to leave the party is in no way any sort of condemnation of my friends and fellow patriots who still refer to themselves as Republicans. My problem is with the party, or parties in general, not with specific people.
I feel as though both parties have become too big, too powerful, too well established and too entrenched for the good of their members. If you follow the money, you discover that the same special interest groups fund candidates on both sides of the aisle. There are little to no repercussions for broken campaign promises as the parties care more about the size of their caucus then anything else. I'm tired of a system where our politicians are for sale to the highest bidder.
Where I'd now like to discuss the failures and dangers of political parties in general, Angel has already hit this point out of the park, so I'll let her take it from here...
4 comments:
how does one find out what party they're registered to? And where do you go to unenroll like that?
It depends what state you are in, but generally city hall is a good place to start.
A simply trip to your city/town hall is all you need to do. In my case it was the Belmont MA Town Hall, Clerks office. All I did was walk in and ask the very nice woman behind the counter if I could change my party affiliation.
This is essentially the same process it takes to register to vote, so in my state's case there was no need to present a picture ID. I'll rant about that later.
Everyone should know that it doesn't cost anything at all to do this and it honestly took less then 5 minutes. I implore everyone to do this, as I cannot think of a better way to tell the political elite that you will no longer be considered in their pocket. If they want your support, they will have to earn it on the ground of performance and loyalty to the constitution.
May I suggest goooh.com You won't get teh picture with just a quick once over. Goooh can work and would essentially be of the people by the people. It is the Most constitutional approach out there. ds
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