Disillusionment

I left the democratic Party a number of years ago over what I perceived to be a party that was still a machine party.  The party gives lip service to bringing people together and helping working families but never really does.  Signing NAFTA into law sealed the deal, I couldn’t ever really belong to a party that shipped thousands of textile jobs out of my state.  I liked Gore but really was excited about Bradley and I thought maybe Dean was for real because he felt we should treat the Palestinian problem fairly instead of one-sided, but the Party backed it’s preferred candidates and they won.  I couldn’t vote republican because they bastardized my religion into a political weapon and honestly I felt like that was a sin, so even though I was an idie I voted Dem more often than not.  Then something happened I saw a speech that made me say wow that guy makes me feel better, makes me proud to be an American, so when he ran for President, I came back home and rejoined the party, thinking this was for real. 

 

Soon I was told I wasn’t really a Democrat that Obama’s people didn’t count, that he was all hype, because he made me believe in the process.  I was told that he had no substance and yet I chose to still believe, then I was told that the Republican candidate was better suited than mine, and that came from the mouth of the other Democrat.  Then I was told that my candidate was a racist because of his pastors message, now I’m a white pro-life Roman Catholic, who doesn’t know shit about a black UCC Protestant Church I know I love my priest but sometimes I disagree with him, so I didn’t think anything about it.  But in the last couple weeks this thing has flared up and it reminds me why I left this party.  Some would say I’m anti-woman, I assure you I’m not, I think Hillary might actually hurt a future woman’s chance at the white house because of not only her tactics but her divisiveness.  I don’t doubt that once upon a time she believed in Democratic IDEALS but that time is gone and now she stands as a shell determined to win so she can make her mark not the peoples mark in fact a month ago I would have still voted for Hillary but now I see that she wants to win no matter the cost, and the truth is as her supporters have reminded me I’m not a real democrat anyway,

so as I move to a new home I’ll be re-registering as a indie, I’ll still vote Obama if he survives the primary because I believe in his message which politicos don’t understand is more important an bigger than the man giving it.

 

 

Yours in Disillusionment,

Christopher Michael Johnson