Leaving the Democrats

This is a must read.

Sounds too familiar.

Are you listening, Republican politicians? This is your base talking. And he's telling the truth.

A good article with a very personal view of the uselessness of dems and how they have bamboozled voters for decades. It took the author's mother all her life to realize what they had done and vote against them. I will bet she will never vote for dems again. That is the huge danger that dems face, that people fed up enough to leave them will NEVER come back.

My parents were divorced in 1961 when I was 10 years old. I saw my father (a WWII veteran of the Pacific and an alcoholic) only once after the divorce. I started working when I was 15 years old and have been continuously employed up until I finally retired a couple years ago. I ran paper routes, repaired barn roofs, undercoated cars and at 17 was driving a full sized van delivering flowers six days a week. While in college I worked in and automatic screw machine shop doing second operations. I have worked hard all my life and am proud of it. How the government has spent the money they have taken from me over the years is absolutely disgusting. I am a proud deplorable! Thank you President Trump for Making America Great Again!!

There are tens of millions of stories just like this. That is why Donald Trump won. It was a good gamble. Many people took the same gamble on Obama with disastrous results. People won't make the same mistake again. Are you listening Mooch? We don't want you. We also looked at the Bushes, McCain, and Romney and left shaking our heads. They were so much like the Democrats. We look at the 2020 crop of Democrats and shake our heads. Why would you vote for any of them? They are removed from reality. The corrupt Clintons? Their time is over. The Democrats are over, and they know it. That's why they are spending so much time trying to legalize criminal activities. That's not governing. I spend my money on healthcare insurance instead of healthcare. I remember my Dad going into a hospital, but never coming out. Kidney stones and sepsis. The hospital couldn't figure it out. They were the poor man's hospital. Good enough to set a bone and that's about it. These days, healthcare is just another money making business. Let the user beware. I think there are a lot of people out there that no longer trust doctors and hospitals. I left my former employer because they just weren't worth it any longer, and I had enough saved that I could 'retire'. They had 'resourced' and outsourced hundreds of thousands of jobs. It wasn't a matter of if you would be let go, but a matter of when. How does one work in that environment? I left when I could clearly see the writing on the wall. The government's fingerprints are all over all of this. Both parties are a joke. The only thing different is Trump. it will be interesting to see what happens to the Republican party in the future. If it remains the party of the Bushes, McCain, and Romney, they are finished just like the Democrats. Sadly, I don't see the Washington Republicans adopting Trump's policies after he is gone.

Excellent writing - I vote for it to be a 'must-read', too.

"They have mismanaged everything they get their hands on, and then blame others for their own deeds." "But I am middle class. I have been given nothing by our government and have given too much to it. And it always wants more, telling me I have to pay my fair share. It is a sad state when you get to a point in life of maximum dollars earned that it is taken away by higher tax brackets and the loss of deductions." Everyone always thinks of federal when you mention government, but your local and state governments are deep in your pockets as well. Maybe they wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the federal government, but think of all the taxes we pay. We pay taxes on our cars every year for road maintenance and DMV, county workers pensions. We pay taxes on the same homes every year mostly for failing schools so teachers, administrators, and the large work force of our school systems can have a pension. If you own a home for 40 years and pay $4k in taxes every year, the government gets up to $160k out of you. I had a 17-year old car that I paid under $30 in taxes every year for the last six or so years. I had to get a new car when my car died, so I decided to treat myself to my first car payment ever. I was shocked by the annual tax bill for a $40k car. If I keep this car for 10 years, will I pay north of $5k in taxes? That's insane! Then, we work our butts off and have to use what's left for our own retirements. THEN, they limit how much you can work after you retire when you need additional income because of the cost of living mostly attributed to government! It's too early in the morning for this! We are taxed too darn much!!

"..my parents were Roosevelt Democrats..." With all the power attributed to Baby Boomers over the decades, a larger and more destructive demographic has been Roosevelt Democrats and their spawn. FDR was first to exploit mass media and paint a political cartoon of American politics that continues to cloud minds.

What can you say. Keith lays it out there with a very riveting story about his military life and the government promises that were made but were later broken. He lays out the very reason why our big government needs to be taken down to size and the swamp drained. Of course, the dims are responsible, but, so are the pubbies who sat on their hands for years and years not standing up for us. Anh while members of both parties greased their own palms with wealth at our expense. And so it is.

Powerful story and not at all uncommon in this country. I know some stubborn democrats who have voted dem for decades as did their parents. They will not even discuss politics because it makes them so angry to be affiliated with the wrong side but they will not change. I finally did get my mother to change about ten years ago. She did not even know that Hillary Clinton was a crook or that Barack Obama was destroying the country faster than you could say "stimulus." She listened to the alphabet news and did not have Internet. As for the GOP we will soon be unable to tell them apart but the fight will go on. This country is too great to just give it up to fools and scoundrels.

Great piece. Will send this one to my peeps.

I do not know whether to laugh or cry. Probably will cry because Mr. Keith so completely told it like it is for so many of us. I too have had a great life, no thanks to the employees of greatest country on this earth. I am thankful to have been born here; brought up to respect authority but not slavishly; heart nearly bursts whenever I see our beloved flag or hear our anthem. However, those we have elected have taken from the poor and given to the rich. Robin Hood is turning over in his grave!

This scenario is playing out in a lot more households around the country than the left wing media would have you believe. Perhaps the best thing Donald Trump has accomplished is leaving no attack, no lie and no fake news unaddressed. By calling out all of these falsehoods, unlike just about any of his republican predecessors, he has restricted the ability of the DNC media arm to set the narrative and call the shots.The left must be apoplectic and I couldn't be happier.

My dad could have written a similar article. Dad was very much college educated but that was no proof against the governments evil intentions and he was left a far poorer man despite his decades of hard work. My grandparents voted Dem (thanks to FDR) until my dad proved to them they just couldn't morally and fiscally justify it anymore. My dad made all us kids rock hard conservatives none of whom work for the government in anyway. Thanks Daddy!!

Preach, Brother. Who in the wide, wide world of sports would ever want to put their lives in the hands of pathetic people who want to control you and feel a level of importance that they have never earned? No thanks.

This is a very good article which parallels my life. My family were always conservative Republicans and never voted democrat the party of do-nothing accusers and name callers. One story I'll share at the age of 19 I was drafted into the Army. What I saw on television and what actually happened was not what Walter Cronkite (fake news back then) was reporting. Dan Rather was a field reporter who lied while embedded with the Marines. I explained this in 1969 to my parents and friends but it fell on deaf ears many times. No, I'll never follow the anti-American, anti-human (infanticide murderers) name calling hateful persons called democrats.

My parents are both "Christians". I was very much raised in the church, when it was easier . . . and more popular to be in church. But my dad was a university professor. I knew we were Democrat, but I thought we were conservative. Actually, we very much lived as conservatives. But somehow, expecting people to live by the values that we found so popular at the time quickly changed as those values began to be challenged and suddenly became less popular. Now, my parents just want to be popular. It's been difficult for me. As for Mr. Kieth, who I very much relate to, when he says: "I never went to college, I am totally self-taught. I am a doer of many trades and master of none." I say that he is very much a master of articulating his thoughts. Please, sir, write a book.

When President Trump got the Republican nomination I was thrilled. But, when it came to the election, I had no problem voting for President Trump. I considered Hillary as evil incarnate. Up to the time, of President Reagan, I was a split ticket voter, but no longer. The Democrats gotten so bad that I cannot think of one that I would vote for. That does not mean I am thrilled with the Republicans. President Trump has been a pleasant surprise, he has actually done or made every effort to do what he promised. The Republicans in the House and Senate are another matter. While they gave lip service to the same agenda as Trump, their support has been tepid. When given the chance to remove and replace Obamacare, they were revealed not to have a plan to do so. By being gutless and not offering good candidates, they lost the House. If they remain lazy and disorganized, they will loose the Senate to the Democrat incompetents and crazies

I guess my DISDAIN for the dems was God-given from birth. I am in the very same life time frame as the author...I just believed all my life that YOU HAD TO EARN what you want. My mother was a devoted DEM. We had so many arguments we decided in compromise NOT to discuss 'politics' anymore. I was in fact head bashed when I as a child got tired of all the JFK assassination television taking away from watching Mickey Mantle on the TV. BUT...BUT the last political discussion I had with her before she died (and was still cogent) was that Obama was a CANCER on this country...to which she admitted, "Yes, you are right". Today this CANCER is now known as the 'democrat party'.

#20 I voted much like you. I was a registered Dem but always voted for GOP presidents and often voted Dem on the rest of the ballot. Then along came the Clintons and I saw how out of touch the Dems were with my values. I switched parties. A few yrs later a book came out called Biased, about the press. I remember reading that book and asking myself how I could have been so taken in by these people. I was a college educated woman with a decent brain and I had been completely snookered by the media. While reading that book it actually made me cry, it was such an eye opener. Mr Keith has captured the problems perfectly.

For 45 years, my local government and the Fed. squandered my contributions. No more. My money no longer goes to the government entitlement addicts, and in subsidizing the Illegal Aliens. It no longer feeds the fat politicians in D.C., pay for the national healthcare, or subsidize the failing infrastructure of this country. Every year, thousands are doing the same.