Monday, January 06, 2025

How Vividly I Remember...

...when I finally, shamefacedly, realized the folly of the vote O had cast for John Anderson in 1980. 

 In my defense, it was my first election, and I was topfull of that righteous idiocy of youth, insisting that, sure, Reagan was nuts and may well kill us all...but Carter was not pure enough for me, so I decide to Send Them a Message by pissing my vote away on a candidate who could not possibly win.

And thus Reagan was elected.  Once again, my apologies.

It didn't take long for me to figure out what an absolute ass move voting for Anderson had been, but that is not the subject of this post.

The subject of this post is this: when I melodramatically decided to Change My Party Affiliation because I had been an idiot, there were no banners raised.  No commemorative coins were struck.  No songs.  Mo parades.  No gratitude cakes were baked and delivered to my home by scantily clad lasses.

My god, it didn't even rate two sentences in our local paper, and they reported on lost pets and high schools track meets.

I mention this because nowadays the idea that different lad from Illinois might sorta tentatively kinda consider lowering himself to becoming one of us America-hating, terrorist-loving, baby-killing Democrats is apparently headline news.

BREAKING NEWS: Adam Kinzinger says he’s realized he’s closer to being a Democrat after changes in the Republican Party. “The Democrats are now the party that’s defending America’s role in the world.” Who else would WELCOME Adam to the Democratic Party? 💙

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— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@calltoactivism.bsky.social) January 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM



I Am The Liberal Media


2 comments:

bill said...

Back of the line Adam. No line jumping! BACK OF THE LINE!

DocAmazing said...

We welcome Adam to sit at the kiddie's table for a few years.