Back when I was 18 years old and first registered to vote, I registered as a Republican. The first President I voted for was Ronald Reagan.
Soon thereafter, relative terms, and certainly before I went to the University of Wyoming I changed my registration to Democrat. Wildlands had a lot to do with that, maybe everything, almost, to do with that. Sometime prior to the Fall of 1983 I'd concluded that the Democrats wanted to protect nature, where as Ronald Reagan's Administration, with James Watt as the Secretary of the Interior, most definitely didn't care about it.
I was a Democrat for a very long time, but I often voted Republican, following a family trait of really voting very independently. If you aren't thinking about the person you are actually voting for, you aren't thinking. I voted, I know, for our Democratic Governors, but I also voted, I know, for some Republican Congressional candidates. Starting prior to the 2000 election I started to consider 3d parties. Some time after that I became disgusted with the Democrats constant embrace of abortion and changed my political affiliation to none. By that time a lot of Wyoming Democrats were feeling the same way and a lot of them drifted into the GOP, some so solidly that they're regarded as stalwart traditional Republicans now, which in a lot of ways, they are.
I also eventually came into the GOP.
I was comfortable, if often upset, with the GOP up until it nominated Donald Trump for the Oval Office the first time, which absolutely horrified me and still does. This term, which is illegitimate (Trump is a seditionist who has not had the ban from holding office lifted upon him by Congress), has been bad beyond my fears as to what it would be. Trump is all about land rape on the land.
We're back to the 1970s, I fear.
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Condemns Effort to Roll Back Public Lands Rule
Trump moves to nix Public Lands rule; Alfalfa exports data dump
Also re-upping and freeing-up a piece on political violence and rhetoric
I still am registered as a Republican, but I constantly debate it. The Wyoming "Sweet Home Alabama" pack of carpetbaggers Freedumb Caucus has gained control of the Legislature and is busy driving through the state's culture like the Dukes' of Hazzard through Hazzard County in the Gen. Lee. It's disgusting. There''s some reason to believe that this is changing, but it isn't changing quickly enough. Wyoming's GOP Congressional delegation supported the land raping proposal by the Senator from Deseret, Mike Lee, in spite of the majority of Wyomingite's being opposed to it. "Your dumb" was the practical reaction to Wyoming voters from one of the three.
If you aren't a registered Republican, you aren't going to get to have a say in the primary, which is why I'm still there. Am I one of the RINO's that Chuck Gray cries about? If the current GOP reflects the Republican Party, I am. There's no alternative here, however.
This is all appalling.
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