Yesterday I resigned my position in the York Township Republican Committeemen’s Organization. Below is the letter I sent to the chairman explaining my decision.
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Chairman Cuzzone:
We come together in political parties to magnify our influence. An organized representative institution can give weight to our will in ways we could not accomplish on our own. Working with others gives us power, but at the cost of constant, calculated compromise. No two people will agree on everything. There is no moral purity in politics.
If compromise is the key to healthy politics, how does one respond when compromise descends into complicity? To preserve a sense of our personal moral accountability we must each define boundaries. For those boundaries to have meaning we must have the courage to protect them, even when the cost is high.
Almost thirty years ago as a teenager in Texas, I attended my first county Republican convention. As a college student I met a young Rick Perry, fresh from his conversion to the GOP, as he was launching his first campaign for statewide office. Through Associated Republicans of Texas I contributed and volunteered for business-friendly Republican state and local candidates.
Here in DuPage County I’ve been a precinct committeeman since 2006. Door to door I’ve canvased my precinct in support of our candidates. Trudging through snow, using a drill to break the frozen ground, I posted signs for candidates on whom I pinned my hopes for better government. Among Illinois Republicans I found an organization that seemed to embody my hopes for the party nationally. Pragmatic, sensible, and focused on solid government, it seemed like a GOP Jurassic Park, where the sensible, reliable Republicans of old still roamed the landscape.
At the national level, the delusions necessary to sustain our Cold War coalition were becoming dangerous long before Donald Trump arrived. From tax policy to climate change, we have found ourselves less at odds with philosophical rivals than with the fundamentals of math, science and objective reality.
The Iraq War, the financial meltdown, the utter failure of supply-side theory, climate denial, and our strange pursuit of theocratic legislation have all been troubling. Yet it seemed that America’s party of commerce, trade, and pragmatism might still have time to sober up. Remaining engaged in the party implied a contribution to that renaissance, an investment in hope. Donald Trump has put an end to that hope.
From his fairy-tale wall to his schoolyard bullying and his flirtation with violent racists, Donald Trump offers America a singular narrative – a tale of cowards. Fearful people, convinced of our inadequacy, trembling before a world alight with imaginary threats, crave a demagogue. Neither party has ever elevated to this level a more toxic figure, one that calls forth the darkest elements of our national character.
With three decades invested in the Republican Party, there is a powerful temptation to shrug and soldier on. Despite the bold rhetoric, we all know Trump will lose. Why throw away a great personal investment over one bad nominee? Trump is not merely a poor candidate, but an indictment of our character. Preserving a party is not a morally defensible goal if that party has lost its legitimacy.
Watching Ronald Reagan as a boy, I recall how bold it was for him to declare ‘morning again’ in America. In a country menaced by Communism and burdened by a struggling economy, the audacity of Reagan’s optimism inspired a generation.
Fast-forward to our present leadership and the nature of our dilemma is clear. I watched Paul Ryan speak at Donald Trump’s convention the way a young child watches his father march off to prison. Thousands of Republican figures that loathe Donald Trump, understand the danger he represents, and privately hope he loses, are publicly declaring their support for him. In Illinois our local and state GOP organizations, faced with a choice, have decided on complicity.
Our leaders’ compromise preserves their personal capital at our collective cost. Their refusal to dissent robs all Republicans of moral cover. Evasion and cowardice has prevailed over conscience. We are now, and shall indefinitely remain, the Party of Donald Trump.
I will not contribute my name, my work, or my character to an utterly indefensible cause. No sensible adult demands moral purity from a political party, but conscience is meaningless without constraints. A party willing to lend its collective capital to Donald Trump has entered a compromise beyond any credible threshold of legitimacy. There is no redemption in being one of the “good Nazis.”
I hereby resign my position as a York Township Republican committeeman. My thirty-year tenure as a Republican is over.
Sincerely,
Chris Ladd
Postscript – Needless to say, the response to the letter has been stunning and overwhelming. I want to express my gratitude to the people who have shared so many kind thoughts. It was my intention to reply to each of the emails I’ve received, but I was snowed under by late last night and they keep piling up.
Some of the warmest regards have come from right here in suburban Chicago. When I posted this letter I was prepared to face some anger here at home from fellow Republicans. Nothing of the kind has materialized. The only official response from the local GOP so far has been support, for which I am immensely grateful. It gives me hope. We may all come out of this debacle in better condition.
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Chris Ladd is a Texan living in the Chicago area. He has been involved in grassroots Republican politics for most of his life. He is a Republican precinct committeeman in suburban Chicago. He can be reached at gopliferchicago at gmail dot com.
“From tax policy to climate change, we have found ourselves less at odds with philosophical rivals than with the fundamentals of math, science and objective reality.”
Glad this was all OK with you republicans, but Trump ruining your “reputation” is when it went too far. Not like we need to be able to breathe the air or drink the water. Love how every now and then they even admit to knowing about it even as its constantly denied.
Let me guess, joining the libertarians and voting for Johnson? Republicans are the modern version of 8th century rats. Synonymous with plague. I hope this country stays smart enough to keep even the “smart ones” like you from ever becoming president.
Also can’t wait to hear you telling people why the EPA is a sham and companies like Tesla cause more pollution than thier competitors.
I’ve been a Democrat for years. I was even an elected Dem PC in York Township for two terms. I find myself in the same place with the Democratic party. Bernie Sanders is a man who has kept his word for decades. He even kept his word to endorse the Dem nominee, despite the proven fact that the DNC interfered massively in the Democratic primaries, AND colluded with a corrupt corporate media. I can not in good conscience vote for a nominee who won by deception – and the jury is still out on her complicity. All I have left is to focus down-ballot and vote 3rd party at the top. Neither of the major party presidential nominees has and credibility or stability. Our country can only function properly by collaborating on areas where we agree first, and then finding compromise on the rest. This never happens in national politics any longer. All of us at the lower levels of whatever party we affiliate with are here to make a better future for our families, neighbors, friends, fellow citizens, and world. We may not agree on the means to get there, or what exactly that should look like in the end. Still, that is our common motivation. Until we see each other as fellow citizens, and work on our points of agreement first, those pulling the strings will continue to play on our perceived divisions to all our detriment. This is the craziest election I have ever seen in my 54 years. You’re not alone in seeing a void at the top, my fellow citizens.
As a Democrat, voting third party helps Trump and hurts Clinton, while electing neither of the third party candidates. Think about that long and hard with your PC background.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/clintons-third-party-headache-226700
How have we let our country get to this point? How do we choose who to vote for when the options are all lying, cheating, dishonest crooks? No matter who wins it’s looking like the outcome will inevitably be the beginning of the end of America as we know it & how we were raised to believe it would be. How can anyone of us show or have any respect for our country’s elected leaders & officials.. I’m not a politically wise or educated citizen. I grew up thinking all of you politically wise people would look out for people like my uneducated and foolish self so i wouldn’t need to worry about it… so i never got involved or paid enough attention all these years that our country has slowly fallen further and further away from what i thought America stood for. Now all the sudden Im seeing all this hate and disrespect and everyone trying to expose the others worst sides. I see our country heading too total chaos and a total crash of our government and its structure i always thought I could count on. Now I’m scared and don’t know what to do to look out for myself and everyone I care about. What do we do and how can we all help try to save us from ourselves. Im not the only American who wonders what will happen to us all. Why is it impossible to find a good honest honorable leader that will be good leader for this country….. We will all have to make sacrifices to get our country turned around. Everyone needs to give more than they take so theres enough to go around. But how do we vote for a leader when the options are all sure to tear apart this country and damage it even more. I’m scared theres gotta be a better solution to saving us….. or maybe its just to late and we are doomed. I wont vote for anyone before i will vote for any of the options offered. I feel guilty that I as well as all of America let it get this bad other countries are no doubt laughing at us seeing all the failure and stupidity being displayed, the fighting and crime everywhere. we as a country have failed. Where has United we stand gone everyone everywhere is divided. Where are the ten commandments anymore? do many people even remember them anymore? When did we give up our honor and quit doing the right thing? How do we get respect back? We can’t just all quit and give up.
Since you admit that you are uninformed about political leadership, and find yourself unable to “support any of the choices”, maybe the best course of action would be for you to: make an effort to learn more about the two obvious contenders for President – their qualifications, temperament, experience. If that doesn’t help you make up your mind, then look to those who you respect and ask their opinion. Another option is to start following this blog which is populated with many well informed people, and see who they are supporting. Sometimes, elections don’t offer us a candidate that is ideal. Sometimes, we have to go with the best of the people who are running. I am voting FOR Hillary Clinton, just so you know.
Good luck. The first step in becoming informed is admitting you aren’t. The next step is doing something about it other than complaining or making a knee-jerk voting choice that you may regret. Always, put country before party and this will provide good guidance to your ultimate decision.
thank u for the good advice and thats what i am trying to do and have been reading the posts trying top be informed and learn more thanx again
Good for you, Kathy. If more people took the time and interest you’re investing, our Democracy would be more representative of all of America. GOTV is critical for this election, as is each voter investing the time to make a good decision for our country. Keep plugging!
As one who worked at the RNC as a third year law student and spent three weeks at the White House and was then sent to help on George HW Bush’s 1991 re-election campaign, eventually becoming a member of the staff, I left the republican party years ago. The reason people like you and others are leaving now is because the republican party has been outed. The only difference with the old guard republicans is that they couched the very rhetoric that Trump uses, in euphemistic terms. Now that the party has been exposed for being racist, insular, and willing to live off the government, where large corporations received massive funding then everything was honky dory. It’s just that Trump has exposed the republican party and every elected republican and every republican operative for who they are and what they stand for. I don’t think you or anyone that is leaving now is any different from Trump. If you had left 10 years ago, you may be able to claim to have human decency. Those leaving now are just afraid to be labeled because the world noticing.
Well, that’s telling it like it is. Hope you are putting your political experience to work somewhere that’ s more constructive.
Dear Mr. Ladd,
I am not a Republican, nor do I live in Illinois, nor can I even vote in this country yet, but I would be proud to have had you as my congressman. Your elegant and passionate letter to the Chairman Cuzzone led me to your blog, where you articulated both what you are passionate about in rational, factual language, while also showing a path through judicious compromise from both sides to move forward.
Thank you for restoring my faith in what politics could be, and should be. I thank you again for your courage and leadership, and will be reading your blog with interest. You are what the GOP should be, and that is a noble and rational party indeed.
Very best wishes,
Jean-Marc Berteaux
Excellent read. Welcome to the bright side.
What’s most concerning is the degree of support for Trump amongst the GOP electorate. I doubt that many in the Democrats *really* believed their own propaganda. Too many knew decent, rational Republican voters like yourself to truly believe that the GOP was the party of know-nothing theocratic racists, despite some of the troubling laws emanating from GOP dominated state houses.
Seems that to a significant degree, everyone was wrong. It’s not just a few marginalised fringe elements – the kind that every party has. It’s become, by some grotesque alchemy, the mainstream. Trump is not the problem, he’s a symptom.
A healthy Democracy – or Republic – needs two sane, rational major parties, to hold each other to account. Many like myself have held grave fears about the Democrats in this area in the past. But now we see something that cannot be ignored on the other side, something obvious, blatant, unmistakeable.
While It’s tempting to blame the DNC for being so incompetent that the GOP has been able to get away with too much insanity for too long, a charge that has merit, really it’s the GOP hierarchy who, by pandering to the fanatics, have made a phenomenon like Trump not just possible, but eventually inevitable.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
May the GOP change once more to become what it used to be. May the Democrats not descend into the darkness, because they lack a sane opposition.
As a certifiably insane Democrat, I can assure you that my party is guilty of all the criticism you levied – not so much by incompetence as laziness, IMO. I can also assure you that the Democratic Party of today is far more focused and aligned in its platform than it ever has been….Bernie Sanders die-hards not withstanding. The danger, as you noted, is that without a sane, capable competitor, the bar doesn’t have to be very high. I want our bar to be very high. I want the Democratic Party to deliver what it espouses. Even more important, there are times in history when one simply has to make political choices for the good of the country….whether you’re enthusiastic, or not.
Now is such a time. Vote. Inform. Help others vote. This election is that important.
@1mime – Well Stated.
@Loomy – Re: “Trump is not the problem, he’s a symptom” – I completely agree.
Both parties have lost their center, and in at least some regards, any connection to their foundational principles.
As just one example, both parties have long kowtowed to Monsanto, and have assisted them in preventing any meaningful labeling of genetically engineered ingredients, not to mention that Monsanto execx have been placed in every presidential cabinet since George HW Bush, and there is no reason to believe that either Hillary or Drumpf will do any different.
For those unaware, Hillary is reported to have done work for Monsanto during her Rose Law Firm days, and she is on record as a long-time Monsanto supporter.
So neither party has any legitimate claim to be doing anything meaningful for children, or for the environment, as long as they are willingly exposing both to such a clear and present danger, absent ANY credible evidence of safety.
Meanwhile, independent testing the world over is proving that GMOs are anything but safe, that ingesting them CHANGES OUR DNA, and then of course there are the original warnings from the scientists from both Monsanto and the FDA, which were entirely ignored, and buried, prior to approving – and actively pushing – their widespread use. Schmucks.
Future generations will consider these Crimes Against Humanity, and both the Democratic and Republican parties have a LOT lot to answer for.
In closing, however, although it is likely that Hillary and Drumpf will likely have similar terrible and reprehensible policies regarding Monsanto and GMOs, the fact remains that she is sane and qualified, whereas he is anything but, on both counts.
Cori, I don’t share your broad concerns over GMO issues although there are certainly some legitimate areas of concern. As for Hillary not ever doing anything for children, are you not aware of her development of CHIP, now in its 19th year? Finally, I think you might find this snopes article on Clinton’s involvement with Walmart and Monsanto interesting.
http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-sat-monsanto-board/
@1mime – As an 30-year-plus organic grower, I can tell you unequivocally that not only have we been lied to about GE technology and ingredients, on a massive scale, but there is ample evidence that they are harmful in the extreme, which is why the EU and numerous other countries, including Russia and China, have banned them.
The bottom line is that NO ONE knows what the outcome of genetic engineering will be, including the scientists creating these engineered crops/ingredients, because no one CAN know: the technology itself is based on the flawed and long-discredited notion that each gene has one function and one function only. Only the scientifically illiterate believe this any more, and yet, Monsanto and their ilk have based their entire business model on this stupefyingly bad science.
I’ve never heard from any credible source that Hillary was on Monsanto’s Board, nor did I allude to it.
What I referred to was Hillary’s advocacy for Monsanto, in her capacity as an attorney with Rose Law Firm, which is a matter of public record. I also alluded to her public statements in support of Monsanto, and genetic engineering, which she has supported since before Bill Clinton was elected president, and pretty much ever since. I have never heard her even express misgivings about it publicly, though obviously I would welcome it if she did.
I also never made any statements that she had never done anything for children, which quite obviously she has, many times, for years. I was simply stating my own opinion, that advocating for children, while supporting a company and its technology that are overtly harming them, their parents and their environment, is disingenuous and irresponsible. Quite simply, she’s smart enough and savvy enough to know better.
I suggest you read Dr. David Perlmutter’s work on GMOs and why they are so very dangerous. The Right loves to demonize him, but his fact-checking and science are sound, and well worth the read.
This makes me sad. I am a Democrat, but until the past decade or so, I had never voted straight party…EVER! I have known many wonderful republicans with really good ideas. Being from PA, we loved our GOP Senators, Heinz and Specter. Why? They always championed working people and never portrayed union members as anything less than hard working people. What happened to that party? This really does make me sad that the good guys feel they have to leave.
It is a wonderful letter! If more Germans had, had the guts, perhaps Hitler would not have destroyed their country in the end.
Chris Ladd is right in that the GOP has deteriorated from its original declarations, with its now theocratic bent and denial of science.
I applaud him for trying to keep destructive and mentally non Neuro Typical people from leading our country! No amount of greed for power will help this country in the end. It will be a final implosion, just like Germany in the Second World War!
I haven’t read all of the comments, but are you now looking at Gary Johnson, whose positions are much closer to those you began with? He is principled, experienced, and has a realistic chance if principled voters refuse to choose between the lesser of two evils and make a positive choice for liberty. Please consider him, and look at JohnsonWeld.com for more information.
Both he and his running mate, Bill Weld, are former two-term Republican governors from Democratic states who balanced the budgets in each of their terms. They are our only sane choice this election.
Here’s what I think about third parties:
“Attention is all they are interested in. Libertarians and Greens don’t care if their actions benefit candidates deeply opposed to their interests or yours so long as they squeeze their fifteen minutes from the process. Libertarians and Greens deserve to be loathed because they are sanctimonious political vandals, monkeying with elections for publicity, distorting the democratic process to ‘make a point.’”
https://goplifer.com/2014/10/31/the-green-party-and-libertarians-deserve-to-be-loathed/
Lifer, you have forgotten how to equivocate (-; The soul-searching you had to do in making your decision to resign from the Republican Party and watching so many spineless Republicans fail to denounce Trump has no doubt reduced your patience threshold. It would mine.
In addition to all that you said, these candidates are “spoilers”. I think they cost George HW Bush and Al Gore the presidency. The current maelstrom we are in should require that all thinking (and those who don’t) Americans seriously look at the consequences of a Donald Trump as POTUS. Voting third party helps Trump more than it hurts Clinton. There is simply too much at stake for our country to take any chance on seeing Trump win. And, that includes voting third party.
I agree with you.
Excellent statement, and very well-written: “sanctimonious political vandals” and “political cosplay” pretty much says it all about how they show up every four years yelling “third party” and disrupting races at the top of the ticket, doing nothing constructive to build grassroots support at any other time. I personally think we’re at a point in our country where we should have multiple political parties as they do in other countries, with a system of instant runoff voting that eliminates the “spoiler effect.” But efforts like that have to start at the grassroots level, in city council elections, school board, and other local races, branching out from there to run for seats in the state legislature and on up.
I’m sorry but if you think the stakes in this election are as high as Chris has outlined, the only morally defensible choice is to vote for Clinton. Trump is a menace. He must be stopped and in the most emphatic possible way.
This isn’t even really a matter of political ideology. It isn’t a matter of what you think of Clinton’s character and integrity (or lack thereof), or of her close associations with large and powerful interest groups. It is a matter of temperament and of declaring that we, as a society, have at least some minimum standard to which we hold those who lead us. It is a matter of adherence to the norms of American political discourse; it is a matter of adherence to the norms of American democracy; it is a matter of the continuation of the American experiment in republican self-governance.
If these things matter to you, you need to vote for Hillary Clinton. If you think that’s what’s at stake, a vote for Johnson constitutes a evasion of your responsibility to uphold your core values. It is a resort to comfortable political posturing in the face of a difficult, dark, but ultimately-crystal-clear, choice.
Moreover, if Clinton defeats Trump resoundingly, that could (not saying will – could!) be the seed from which a new, productive, forward-looking, Republican Party emerges. If Johnson gets 20% of the vote and Clinton squeaks in, this chance is lost. I fear more of the same in that scenario.
(I say this, by the way, as a center-left type who wishes to see a productive, forward-looking, center-right party emerge. Both because I think it would be good for the country, and because I personally would like a credible alternative to the Democrats, especially as the farther reaches of the left begin to make more noise.)
If you truly believe Clinton and Trump are equally bad, that’s another conversation. But if you do not, and if you accept that the stakes are as high as Chris has laid out, I urge you to think very carefully between now and November before taking the easy way out and voting for Johnson.
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As a Democrat, I respect your character holding fast to your beliefs based on long term loyalty and moral basis for your beliefs. Although, I will undoubtedly disagree with some of your positions, I respect your right to hold them. I’m encouraged that your realization that working together would bear more fruit than continued infighting. When you vote this fall, I hope you will vote for candidates who are willing to work across the aisle, especially if Trump wins. We will need a strong united Congress to stand up to demagoguery.
This does truly amaze me. Hillary Clinton is a corporate shill and we in the progressive camp despise her because she is essentially inkind to a neoliberal George W. Bush, Mitt Romney with liberal pinko microaggressions. Now the Republicans have someone who has a brain and talent and with ambition to solve problems and if his gib isn’t cut tight enough to fit the low energy Jeb mold with tired old ideas and UTTER FUCKING NONSENSE THAT COST THIS COUNTRY TRILLIONS OF FUCKING DOLLARS AND MILLIONS OF IRAQI LIVES – the Republicans need Exlax to get a BM out! It totally escapes me how we became this retarded as a country. #NeverHillary
You don’t speak for all progressives. You don’t like Hillary, don’t like her. Vote for Jill Stein. But you could have come here and said nice things to Chris without venting your personal paranoias.
Mr. Dunn, we don’t communicate like you have on this blog. We are civil, we are substantive and we don’t attack people who hold different views. We discuss our differences and our common concerns without vulgarity or haranguing . This family of commentators is not a good fit for your style.
Satire, folks. Tranquilo
(-; Missed it. Zipping it….Sorry Paul, you were too subtiille for me……
Re-read “satire”….language still over the top, Lifer.
Not quality satire, just trolling. In fact, I’m getting the impression that some of this stuff I’m seeing is produced by bots. Really strange turn. Anyway, ignore it.
I am, but took a second look after reading your initial comment.
Paul Dunn, You have truly drank the KoolAid. How in all that is sound and reasonable can you ignore Trump’s failures in business, his disregard for any semblance of honesty in both his personal and professional lives; and state that this traitorous, xenophobic, paranoid, delusional POS, bankrupt of all moral decency, is the answer to any of the problems still existing in our country? He IS the problem!
Hillary isn’t a corporate shill.
Well said, Chris.
I initially held hope Donald Trump might change the insular purity of the “Republican” cause to allow discussion and debate, but it seems instead to be based on fear and hate, with the ultimate ego presiding.
Having read “rise and decline of the third Reich”, Trump’s campaign is exceptionally similar to that of Adolf Hitler in 1934, as orchestrated by Herman Goebbels. Fear of a “common” enemy, based on something almost immutable (Muslims), insistence that his strong personality is the only one string enough to carry through, and very little experience in actual policy. I could go on but you’ve captured it well already.
I’m afraid – not of Muslims, Mexicans, and foreign trade that Donald would like me to be afraid of. I’m afraid of this fear mongering itself.
(Credit due to W. Churchill, & C. Ladd)
You hit it exactly, Gary. Trump as a candidate is an abomination, but the masses that have been spawned through decades of deliberate manipulation by the GOPe in combination with a DJT are horrifying. This group of people will still be voting when Trump has been (let us pray) vanquished. That mood, those thoughts, will continue, and that has to change.
The way to fix that is to invest in education.
Interestingly, if you actually read the history surrounding a lot of Hitler’s writings, it appears that Hitler wasn’t actually all that anti-Semitic himself . . . he had a Jewish maid he adored, and was, in fact, himself part Jewish (one grandparent, if memory serves) . . . but he knew that the German people were anti-Semitic in the extreme, especially the men in his S.S.
Thus his increasing attacks on “The Jews” as the source of all of Germany’s problems, were entirely cynical but struck fertile ground, as they would have in much of Northern Europe at the time, and the snowball from Hell gained speed from there.
Contrast this with Stalin, who not only killed FAR more people than Hitler even thought about, mostly his own people, but purposefully killed everyone who knew his real identity – including every member of his own family, and every person in the village in which he grew up, along with all of their relatives that he could find. And, unlike Hitler, who HAD a lot of people killed, Stalin seems to have taken immense pleasure in doing the deeds himself, by his own hands. Chilling.
By the way, Drumpf has expressed admiration for both men, as well as for Vladimir Putin, who has declared his own deep admiration for Stalin.
Which is why, being a long-avowed history buff, although I think we BADLY need alternative parties in this country, in this election I will be voting for Hillary Clinton, despite my own philosophical and political differences with her.
The stakes are quite simply too high to risk doing otherwise.
I need to bookmark this puppy.
signed,
fellow ex-Republican Apostate.
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Id vote for chis ladd
Congratulations Courageous Chris Ladd
Let us hope that millions who share your view of Donal Trump will get out and VOTE on November 8th!
Thank you for posting this marvelous analysis of someone not fit to be CIC
evie frost
to Chris Ladd, sir, in real world terms you and i would be ideological enemies, in I hope a democratic sense, But I have enormous respect for what you have said and what it would take anyone to have a soul searching reevaluation of their long held beliefs. There are things i would love to critique but that is for another day.Today you should be applauded for your courage and showing what it really takes for some one to do this. thanks you
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