I've mentioned it several times through different blog posts about our family being Kennedy Democrats. I wanted to vote for Bobby Kennedy myself.
We were a Catholic family and the Kennedy's were the first Catholics to reach high office. It was a big deal.
Our folks were devout Catholics and staunch Democrats.They went to every local Democrat picnic and fundraiser. We were your typical Democrats but i grew up at a time when abortion was illegal.
You couldn't have imagined a woman aborting her baby. Marriage was between a man and a woman. It wasn't even a question. We knew there were gay people but it was considered perverted.
People went to church on Sundays. We said the pledge of allegiance in grade school and stood with hand over heart. We respected our police and honored our military. We held the FBI and Secret Service in the highest regard. Heck, the FBI tv series was a never miss.
Your father and mine were WWII vets. The middle class was thriving.Life was good. I had a happy childhood and a lot of good memories. Maybe that generation had it too easy. It was definitely easier than our parents.
All i knew growing up was that the Democrats were for the poor and the Republicans were for the rich but we had a lot of shared values as Americans.
Would you have considered us Democrats today?
Now if you look at the Democrat party of Obama, Harris, Biden and Pelosi it's unmistakably Marxist.I knew what Marxism was back when but i never expected it to be adopted in the U.S. Marxism was considered evil. The Soviet Union was the enemy. i didn't know a kid who hadn't read Animal Farm.We saw Krushchev pound his shoe on the table. The Soviets were going to 'bury the West'.
Let's be honest about the change from the 50's to the 60's. Radicalism on the left started creeping into our culture, our universities and media. The Vietnam war had a profound affect on the American psyche but the Marxists used it as a door to political and cultural influence. They saw an opportunity and took it. There were plenty of useful idiots. (Raises hand).
Long story short i had an epiphany much like Andrew Breitbart's and ended up as a conservative who voted Republican even though some of the candidates were disappointing. i could never go back to the Democrat party.No regrets leaving. It had progressed from very liberal to Marxist. You couldn't do worse.
The Kennedy name and legacy was a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly. We always remembered John F. Kennedy fondly. His brother Robert's life was cut short. They were both too young. In Democrat circles the KENNEDY name was enshrined. When the endorsement from Robert Kennedy Jr. for Pres Trump came it was no small matter.
The other side-the side he was on-had to be so bad it wasn't redeemable. No matter how bad you think it is, it's far worse. Robert Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard both know exactly what's at stake here.
The speech from RFK Jr. tells you everything you need to know. It's not the Democrat party of our parents anymore. Now, mind you, we have some DIFFERENT reasons* to oppose them but there are CORE PRINCIPLES that hold the Republic together and those are reasons we share in common.
The assassination attempt on Pres. Trump may have been the turning point, the last straw.
*Topic for a future post.Coming soon.
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