Biohazard: I feel like I was suckered by the "conservative" con game (because I was) I was raised in, and I could tear up every vote I cast for those first years. Best I can do is never miss a chance to vote against the bastards again. I don't, and I won't.

racism is so deeply embedded in America that the Republican response to a brilliant, moderate, technocratic black man becoming President was to build a cult of personality around the single worst white man in the country and attempt to make him dictator for life

you could even look at everything coming out of the right since 2016 as an effort to prevent an obama from ever happening again

It was so ugly, and so crudely BLATANT that it shocked me so much I re-examined all my political beliefs, and ended up on the opposite side of the spectrum. Until the Obama admin I'd been an (uneasy) conservative and reliable R voter for two decades. Since then I'm a fire-breathing lefty D voter.

I applaud your conscience and willingness to examine your beliefs. I wish your former conservative republican brethren could do the same.

I feel like I was suckered by the "conservative" con game (because I was) I was raised in, and I could tear up every vote I cast for those first years. Best I can do is never miss a chance to vote against the bastards again. I don't, and I won't.

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