(#4956) Live your life but advocate for what is correct

      I get how people are busy with their lives and that takes a lot out of us. Yet the foundation from which we exist in our democracy is being threatened by the republican party. Pay attention for however long it takes to understand the significant threat to how we live in our democracy. Being busy living in our democracy must not take all our time. We have a civic duty to pay attention to how some citizens of our nation who are negatively forcing how we all must live. That is not democracy, that is autocracy, or more clearly a tyrannical form of representation. Our political leaders are our servants but too many have lost sight of that. Instead of being good stewards to all of us, too many republicans are making us beholden to them.
     I always thought that once people realized what a con job the republican party was pulling on us that we would quickly vote them out and be done with them. But no, we seem to be oblivious to making our own minds up about what is good and bad in society. It isn't that overwhelming to understand that if people being hurt is the gist of a policy, then that party that forwarded that policy is not practicing democracy. The idea of representative democracy is one in which the will of the majority is upheld. The reason being is that that good policy is supported by the political party that has the backing of a majority of Americans. If democrats were the party of treason and making the working middle poor class suffer then I would quit them and either join the republicans if they were better at being good or start a new party.
     This incessant belief to stick with a political party even when they are putting targets on their supporters backs is stubborn and irrational. Why would anyone associate with a gang of thugs and thieves who are out to get anyone who isn't them? If you are a thug or thief then sure stick with the republican party because you would fit right in. But if not then either join the independents and vote accordingly or join us democrats and be welcomed. This democracy destroying attempt by the current ego driven republican donors and politicians is unworthy of honest and decent folks who have held prior allegiance to republicans but cannot find themselves as reflected back from this current stable of frauds and brutes.