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I have spent a long time think of this an many months writing and rewriting it I have found it very difficult to put into words my feelings about what has
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 happened to the Republican Party. I will say to the chagrin of my many liberal and democratic friends that I was once a Republican. I did not change the Republican Party left me, today I don’t even recognize the Republican Party for it is truly the Party of Trump.
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It has morphed into a party that hates anyone who is not a hardcore Trumper who will not blindly devote themselves to Trump, Republican ideals be dammed.

I say to you, If you want to save the Republican Party leave it, for they have left you,
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I will say without hesitation the rank and file of the Republican Party hates you, and no sir, it is not a small minority of the Party. Let their be no doubt this is the Party of Trump

Before Trump I thought I was pretty middle of the road, a middle right American
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I support a women’s right to choose, even though it would not be my choice

Myself I am not a religious person, I consider myself Spiritual, I do believe their must be some kind of creator, what it is, is beyond my comprehension. What you believe is your right and
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I say no matter what religion you follow, if it gives you conform then I salute you and I support you

I strongly support the 2nd amendment, but whole heartedly agree their must be reasonable restrictions on deadly weapons and everyone who buys a gun
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should have to take a background check without exception

I could care less who you love, for one it’s none of my business, it does not effect me or the world in any way. I have no right to impose my morals onto anyone, I am not god
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I could care less what gender you claim

I believe that what I believe is not what everyone should believe, I am not the belief police, and neither is anyone else

As far as the current Republican Party is concerned the middle right is the Radical left and they will censor you
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call your RINO, even chat to hang you or lock you up if you don’t 100% agree with them

They wrap them selves in a flag, they hold their Bible, and point their guns and say, you are unpatriotic a unmoral person if you don’t fully support Trump.
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They have a backwards view of patriotism, patriotism is the love of country and the founding documents, not the love of a man. The Constitution that I read, Guarantees people the basic rights that I stated above and more importantly it has inshrined them to all people,
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Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not a value Trump ascribes to

In their eyes I am the extreme left a socialist and you are just as shunned as me. Millions have left the GOP it is a shrinking party. 140,000 Republicans changed their registration in Jan alone,
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many more will do so after the acquittal

The only way to save the GOP is to leave it and bring like minded people with you. To fully and without question denounce the hatred the conspiracies the violence and the blind devotion to man that would tear up the constitution
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to stay in power. Only from within can the Republican Party save itself you must amputate the rot and return to morals and principles of the Grand Old Party

I weep for a country that has witnessed the leader of a violent insurrection go unpunished
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I weep for a nation who’s people have been systematically and purposefully lied to

I weep for a constitution that no longer has the power or support it rightfully deserves

I weep for the Untied States that are no longer united
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But mostly I weep for every citizen of this great land who no matter which side has been infected by Trump and his unrelenting words of division

I will never vote for anyone who calls themselves a Republican ever again.

Chief Operations Specialist (SW) USN Ret.
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