Why I Am Not a Democrat

I guess you could say I was raised a Democrat. I voted straight Democrat up until the year that Jimmy Carter lost his bid for a second term. But then, something happened. I started paying attention. I started to read, to listen, to study, to educate myself. I started to think for myself. It was around this time that I woke up and discovered that "my" party supported abortion.

Up until this time in my young life I had pretty much existed in a dense fog with reference to the world around me. I knew about Roe v. Wade from 1973, but I had no idea of the carnage that resulted from it. And I had no idea that the Democrat Party proudly supported it. When I woke up to this realization, I had no choice but to abandon the party of murder. I won't call myself a Republican, but as an independent who will never again vote for a Democrat as long as that party continues to endorse the wholesale slaughter of innocent lives, I don't have a great deal of choice when I enter the voting booth. I don't care who the candidate is--local, state, or national--I will never vote for anyone who identifies as a Democrat.

It does not matter to me what else the Democrat Party stands for, as long as they brazenly, or even meagerly, support abortion, I will never be a Democrat again. It is a deal breaker. I refuse to associate with murderers and accessories to murder, which is what you are if you support abortion.

From the 2016 Democrat Party Platform Draft, July 1, 2016: "Democrats are committed to protecting and advancing reproductive health, rights, and justice. We believe unequivocally that every woman should have access to quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion—regardless of where she lives, how much money she makes, or how she is insured. We believe that reproductive health is core to women’s, men’s, and young people’s health and wellbeing. We will continue to stand up to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood health centers, which provide critical health services to millions of people. We will continue to oppose—and seek to overturn—federal and state laws and policies that impede a woman’s access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment." (www.cnsnews.com/news/article/democrats-seek-repeal-ban-federal-funding-abortion)

Since Roe v. Wade, some 60 million innocent lives have been snuffed out with the blessing of the Democrat Party. If we cannot respect and protect innocent life, then no one--NO ONE--deserves any protection from the government, nor should we expect it. To quote Mother Teresa, "And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"

Update

We Are a Nation of Shame

People say that what the Nazis did was horrible, mercilessly killing 9 million Jews. We have, thus far, murdered some 60 million innocent, defenseless children and their murderers walk freely amongst us, celebrated as if their "choice" represents some moral high ground. I am ashamed of what we have become as a nation. This is a disgusting time and place in which to live. We have dwarfed the Nazis' atrocity using their same argument. I hang my head in shame.

AR-15

Just my two cents: According to the dictionary an assault is "an unlawful physical attack upon another; an attempt or offer to do violence to another, with or without battery, as by holding a stone or club in a threatening manner."

So, an assault can be physical or non-physical; it can simply be a threat of violence, as by holding a stone or club in a threatening manner.

Why, then, do some people, refer to an AR-15 as an assault weapon? Because no weapon is an assault weapon until it is used to actually assault someone. A rock is an assault weapon if someone uses it to beat the brains out of another; likewise a knife, a baseball bat, a tire tool, a hatchet, ad infinitum. And it, and it alone, is an assault weapon only with respect to this particular event. It does not permanently convey that title to all the other rocks or baseball bats of the world. The evil resides in the wielder of the weapon, not in the weapon itself.

If someone unlawfully attacks me with a knife, for example, the knife is an assault weapon. If I defend myself with an AR-15, then the AR-15 is a defensive weapon. If an AR-15 has never been used to assault anyone, then it is not an assault weapon. Sure it can be used in that manner, but so can a logging chain or a baseball bat. If you own an AR-15, you do not own an assault weapon, unless you have assaulted someone with it. And then it was an assault weapon for only that instant. Afterwards it is just a rifle, like it was before you used it to assault. Just because an AR-15 (or any other weapon, for that matter) was used in an isolated assault does not mean that all the others are assault weapons and thereby inherently evil. That argument is just plain stupid. An unloaded, single-shot .22 caliber rifle is an assault weapon if you point it at someone in a threatening manner or use it to bash in someone's head. So stop calling my AR-15 an assault weapon. I've never assaulted anyone with it, nor do I have any intentions of ever doing so.