Back in the day the Democrats were for good things, or pretended to be.
Like when liberals started the EFF they were for protecting your rights online, and now they're in favor of censorship. Even farther back ACLU was for civil liberties, now they push racial discrimination. ADL was against defamation, the now-American Defamation League is guilty of defamation.
I voted democrat because they more aligned with my principles and when they didn't anymore then I switched. It's not an existential crisis for me.
Other people voted Democrat because they were loyal party members and that was okay because their principles didn't get in the way. Now they're saying how can we be Democrats when we want free speech, equal enforcement of the law, equal rights, and all the other things modern Democrats hate? That's a crisis they have to resolve somehow; oh they were secretly conservatives, or true-liberal liberals.
Or, for most of them, they're still Democrats and instead they just reject all their former principles so they can still be part of the tribe.
Back in the day the Democrats were for good things, or pretended to be.
Like when liberals started the EFF they were for protecting your rights online, and now they're in favor of censorship. Even farther back ACLU was for civil liberties, now they push racial discrimination. ADL was against defamation, the now-American Defamation League is guilty of defamation.
I voted democrat because they more aligned with my principles and when they didn't anymore then I switched. It's not an existential crisis for me.
Other people voted Democrat because they were loyal party members and that was okay because their principles didn't get in the way. Now they're saying how can we be Democrats when we want free speech, equal enforcement of the law, equal rights, and all the other things modern Democrats hate? That's a crisis they have to resolve somehow; oh they were secretly conservatives, or true-liberal liberals.
Or, for most of them, they're still Democrats and instead they just reject all their former principles so they can still be part of the tribe.