Last week I wrote my first piece on Daily Kos titled 'I Abandoned the Republican Party!' The response was overwhelming with 34,800 'shares' and many kind 'welcome' comments from my new liberal friends.
Today I scanned over the reports and comments on the Republican convention. What I read reaffirmed my decison that indeed the Right has not only lost its moral compass it has totally destroyed any level of Party decency and it is out of touch with 99% of Americans. The report that a convention attendee threw nuts at a CNN camerawoman and announced "this is how we feed animals" was so outrageously dehumanizing I can't begin to find the words to describe how angry I was. The level of hatred and bigotry that is blantantly flaunted by the Right reminds me of a recent comment I read "the Right hates Obama more than they love America." How truly sad that our country has stooped to this level. I'm sure I am not the only American who is struggling to grasp how this country has gotten so derailed. Civility, trust and respect are words deleted from the Republican dictionary. They only support power grabbers who worship greed. Hatred and lying are the cornerstones of their creed.
I did read an enlightening book just published, TWILIGHT OF THE ELITES by Christoperh Hayes. Mr. Hayes very accurately defines what has influenced many of our citizens to embrace this toxic demonizing mentality that has lost sight of what was the centerpiece of our democracy - caring for our fellow man. We liberals must be the driving force to re-instill those virtues that made us great.
Yes, I am ashamed to admit I WAS a Republican, but no more! Obama 2012