Comments by "" (@MrEab2010) on "Trump’s OWN Supporters TURN AGAINST HIM For Good…" video.

  1. I was a registered Republican for most of my adult life; at first it was largely b/c on my native Long Island in the 1970s my mother, who had some connections with local GOP politicians, told me that was the best way to get a county job. It was a patronage system where all Nassau County workers paid an illegal 1% kickback to the party to get and keep their jobs. NYS Republicans were still largely moderate-to-liberal at the time, what with Nelson Rockefeller, whom increasingly conservative national Republicans hated, being the governor for 15 years. In 1980 I voted for independent John Anderson, a liberal Republican congressman who was the Bernie Sanders of his day, in the first presidential election for which I was eligible b/c I disliked Reagan and bought the propaganda against President Carter (who should have gotten my vote). After I graduated college, I tried in vain to get a corporate job so I turned to teaching instead. Reagan was a very popular president and I was in a (stupidly) jingoistic period of my life so I went along with the crowd and voted for him in '84 (mistake #2, Mondale was the wiser choice). The Cold War with the Soviets and communist paranoia were hotter than ever and Reagan was very good at painting the Democrats as weak on defense. At the time the Republican party was not yet extremist; they were the party for conformist business types who wanted low taxes, which sounded good to me (I still want tax cuts for the working and middle class but not the rich and I want to ban all billionaires), and I was also pro-life at the time, not understanding its full implications until much later. I even considered running for office but was talked out of it mainly by a letter from Tom Gulotta (I wrote to him for advice), the future GOP county executive who told me that he regretted going into politics and that it was too sleazy to get involved with. Despite my relative conservatism, I couldn't stomach the racist George Bush ads in 1988 so I voted for Mike Dukakis, who summoned the suppressed humanist in me. Throughout the 1990s I was apathetic about politics in general, and I was pre-occupied with my business aspirations, so I skipped the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections, though I voted locally (mainly for Republicans until I moved to NJ in 1993). I don't regret this decision b/c my opinion of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole remain low, although Dole gets points for his WW2 service. My evangelical Protestant upbringing re-surfaced long enough to vote for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 - by far my worst 2 votes ever - overlooking the smears against Al Gore and especially John Kerry. Despite the awful job Bush did as president my dwindling reasons to vote Republican lasted another two elections, when I chose John McCain, an honorable man and a war hero, over Barack Obama (who probably should have gotten my vote both times, though I am still not a fan) in 2008. I intended to vote for Mitt Romney in 2012 (but I was in the hospital on election day) as by far the sanest of the Republicans, who were already showing ominous signs of extremism. By early 2015 I had enough, and I turned my back on the Republican party forever, and not a moment too soon, as Donald Trump was just a few months away from announcing his fetid candidacy. Ever since, the U.S. has been in its gravest danger since the Civil War and the rise of Adolf Hitler. The fundamental reason that led me to pull the trigger on the Republican party, however, was a life-altering personal crisis that began in 2011. I became critically ill from an undiagnosed disease that may or may not be related to diabetes (it's a long story) that nearly killed me and left me permanently disabled. The munificence of the government and the love and support of strangers as well as family made me do a 180 on my own selfishness and has turned me into a complete humanist who has renounced the acquisitive mindset. I now actively oppose all ignorance, bigotry and hate. Though I am no longer an evangelical, I feel closer to the Christ than ever before b/c I am truly following Jesus' teachings and not the world's vanity and confusion. Although I now vote straight Democrat for civic reasons, I am beyond the pettiness of partisan politics of all kinds. Instead, I focus on finding the best path to a just and enlightening future for humanity.
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