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I was a Democrat my entire life, a union supporter... most of my family remains civil servants, except for my husband, (who is a retired physician). I still am and will continue to be an ardent proponent of Gay marriage, womens' right to autonomy, (even though I am personally pro-life-I am RC in faith), but that's another thread to discuss the reasons why I hold these views, but I digress. I have since come to believe that Gay marriage and women's rights are more libertarian tenets. So I lean toward classical liberalism... The government needs to stay out of our lives and stop being our moral compass? That is what brought me to where I am today. I also think the religious have a right to bake a cake for whomever without being fined or put in jail. We don't need a living constitution. We need to rule from the bench. Delighted with Trump's SC picks. Scalia said, "the constitution is not a living organism, it's a legal document." Saw the Democrats try to say something differently, and that turned me off.
I wavered a few more years after having voted for Bill Clinton twice. I voted for Gore... and then I started to be concerned about too much government in our lives, high taxes, deficits, and the play of identity politics the left was using was a turn off. I started to question if the Democrat's policies were helping or hindering...I finally decided they weren't helping and the cost did not justify the policy. Maybe I hadn't realized all this when I was voting for the candidates with the D after their names, but something happened to me when I finally started to pay attention to the purposeful division the Democrats were propagating in this country...Since then, it's only gotten worse.
After Obama was elected is when I really started to pay attention to the harm the Progressive left was doing to our country. So out there... so divisive, and too many social justice warriors, including our CIC. They became more interested in telling others how they should think that they forgot why they were elected. People were turned off by a divisive sjw, Obama. A personable eloquent speaker, but way too concerned with being politically correct to a fault, and that turned many off. Obama, unknowingly, set the stage for Trump who tapped into the concerns of the right wing who had enough of the left's PC nonsense. One example of the PC nonsense,... if you want strong border control, you must hate brown people.
Plus, people really wanted a better economy and better job prospects. Many workers felt ignored by Obama. Many people thought Obama should have paid more attention to protecting Americans, rather than apologizing for Americans.
Interesting that you say the Dems need a revolution. I've been thinking this for a long time. Not that we need to go more to the left crazy type of awakening, but they do need a leader to help them find their way back to the center again.
I think the nationalistic component of the GOP is way overblown... Heck, if you listened to the DP peeps, we're all card carrying white supremacists, racist Neo Nazis, xenophobic, sexists, Islamophobic, rape apologists. Take a good look at that last sentence... I summed up perfectly why Trump won. People tired of being told they were a basket of deplorables, and Trump tapped into their concern. The left needs to ditch race, women, Nazi cards if they ever want to be taken seriously again...
Anyway, just a few thoughts.
