Getting Out of the Party

The Republican Party and its sharp turn to the right (a turn not precipitated by any road sign or detour--they just went right into the ditch and stayed there) has been, oddly enough, their mainstay for the past decade.  It was a truly odd jump to power, I always thought.   With the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and their message spreading "news" conglomerate Fox spreading hate and fear and general vitriol towards anything remotely progressive, anything backed by scientific research, anything that didn't pander directly to their increasingly ignorant, yet small, base, you'd think the moderate Republican would've jumped ship way before now.

Their excuse?  It's a "Two Party System."  As if you have to choose one team and stay there even if you hate half your team-mates and they hate you, simply because you're "fiscally conservative" in a way that Democrats aren't?

The thing is, my moderate, pseudo-Republican friends, and my conservative, pseudo-Democratic pals, is that there are, in fact, now enough of you to band together and make up your own party.  Do it now, while your nominal party affiliation is under so much scrutiny, trying vainly to "remake" itself while still holding on to its fundamentally hateful base.  The American voter is, for the most part, not progressive, not conservative.  They stand for the right to choose, the right to be, and the right to keep their money in the US. It's only a two-party system because you've made it so.  If there was ever a time to change the political landscape of the U.S., the time is now.  It's time for the reasonable, educated, progressive Republican to join forces and move us out of the Newt Gingrich era.

tags: politics