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I am no longer a democrat

I just filled out the voter registration form at my new apartment. I am a democrat not more. I re-registered as an Independent.

This is a decision a long time in the making and not one I take lightly. All of my life I have identified with the democratic party. I have always believed, and still do, that the democratic party is the political party that represents what is best in America. I believe the democratic party really stands for equality and the working people. I thought I would always be a democrat.

However, the democratic party is lead by a bunch of wimps. It was democrats who rolled over and allowed Bush to  destroy this country with the Patriot Act and the Iraq War. Sure Bush was president and had a Republican majority in both houses of congress but the democrats didn’t even fight. They were to afraid to stand up for what was right.

Then the democrats took back congress it he mid-term elections of 2006. You’d think with a war criminal they’d at least hold impeachment hearings. No. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi did almost nothing for two years hoping that if they played nice they could get a democrat in the White House. They did but what at what cost in the grand scheme of things?

Then Joe Lieberman campaigned for John McCain and after Barack Obama elected president what do the Democrats do? Nothing they let him off with a slap on the wrist. Yes there is such a thing as playing nice and building bridges but then there is being stupid and taking it up the ass politically, something the democratic leadership in the country knows how to do better then a boy at the Abbey on a Friday night.

I know the democrats needed Lieberman to stay in the Democratic caucus to have any hope of getting to 60 seats but everybody knew the Georgia race would not go Democratic in the December run off so it was a stupid move.

Not only that but Barack Obama, the new leader of the democratic party, decided to have Rick Warren do the invocation at his inauguration. The first in what I fear will be many slaps in the face to the LGBT community in the next four  eight years by the Obama administration.

I’m sure I’ll still vote for mostly, if not all, democrats but I refuse to remain a member of a party that does not value me and doesn’t fight.