I’m a Republican, but I’ll Vote Against Trump to Save our Democracy…
As Long as the Democratic Nominee Runs on a Republican Platform
My name’s probably Brent, and I’m a lifelong Republican (although really, I like to consider myself more of a centrist, and I really considered voting for Obama in 2008). If you don’t know what a centrist is, it means I’m way more enlightened than most people. Instead of forming opinions of my own, like some extremist ideologue, I like to figure out the exact middle ground between the positions of most of the people I know, and stick my flag right there.
…Unless that position differs too much from what our current laws are, in which case I’ll probably just go with whatever the status quo is. After all, there must be a good reason society is already like this! You know how the saying goes: “if it isn’t broken for me, fixing it is socialism”.
It’s like the story of the wise king Solomon, from the Bible. Two mothers both claim a baby as theirs, and there’s no way of knowing who is right, so Solomon solves the problem by suggesting that they should just cut the baby in half and each take a half. That way it’s a…
