This site started as a conservative blog just prior to the 9/11 attacks. It is a testament to how much the GOP has changed over the past few years that I am not wholeheartedly endorsing a Democrat from President of the United States. Not only that, I am endorsing Democrats up and down the ballot. Because what the GOP has become is not anything that a patriotic American should ever support.
VP Harris is a person of strong moral convictions. As a prosecutor she enforced the law against drug dealers, gangsters, human smugglers, and fraudsters. Contrary to the ridiculous statements of the MAGA-addled GOP, the Biden Administration (despite some early missteps) has lead America out of the post-COVID era and into a period where job and economic growth is strong, America’s standing on the world stage is better than it ever was under the the former administration, and America’s military has a President that truly supports them. As a conservative, I do not like how willing the Democratic Party sometimes is to use the levers of the federal government to achieve their ends, but the fact is that now is a time where we need dramatic action.
In a time when Vladimir Putin is actively trying to reform the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union, VP Harris and President Biden stood firm on behalf of the Ukrainian people. Donald Trump will bend over backwards to please and placate tyrants like Putin, Kim Jung Un, and tinpot despots like Viktor Orban. When it comes to critical international bodies like NATO, VP Harris and President Biden have stood strong in defense of the free world. The MAGA GOP would leave NATO. This kind of weakness and coddling of tyrants is categorically unacceptable. As Commander-in-Chief, VP Harris would preserve America’s standing in the world, stand strong against Putin’s wars of aggression, and ensure that we are better prepared for the conflicts of the future.
America’s system of capitalism is unsustainable. We have a concentration of economic, political, and social power among an amoral billionaire class that has put the American Dream out of reach of far too many. The costs of housing, child care, health care, and other necessities is putting an economic strain on people that limits their life choices, including whether and when to have children. When even the upper middle class is hurting, we have to change the system to keep it alive.
VP Harris has plans to do something about these problems. Yes, a $25,000 subsidy for first-time homebuyers is perhaps a band-aid solution—but VP Harris intends to couple that with YIMBY policies to build more housing stock. This is exactly what we need. Allowing Medicare funding to be used for in-home care for the elderly is a necessity for an aging population. These are just a couple of examples of where VP Harris and Gov. Walz have actual, concrete, and sensible plans to fix what ails America.
On the other hand, the GOP’s plans are reckless tax cuts to entrench the billionaire class, hatred of immigrants, and a plan to use the power of the federal government to stifle criticism. If one does not want to be called a fascist, it would probably be a good idea not to push for an agenda that is right out of the fascist playbook. But Trump and the MAGA GOP do not care about leadership. They have zero actual policy prescriptions beyond the radical anti-Americanism of Project 2025. The MAGA GOP is a collection of religious zealots whose Pharisee funhouse-mirror version of Christianity is an affront to Christ, natalist radicals, blood-and-soil neo-Nazi racists, and weak-minded and weak-willed hangers-on that are perfectly happy to sell out every value they have if it gives them power. Under the MAGA era, the GOP is a hollowed-out corpse, a skin-suit worn by the same crazy John Birch radicals that the GOP kicked out prior to the Reagan era. There is no more GOP anymore, it is the MAGA party now.
The MAGA GOP cares deeply about controlling a woman’s body under the guise of caring for children. But once that child is born the MAGA GOP is perfectly fine with that child starving or being shot to death in school. The life of that child does not actually matter—control over the mother does. The MAGA GOP says it wants less government and more freedom, but is actively saying that it will use the power of the government, including the military, to suppress criticism. This is simply un-American. The MAGA GOP says that it is the party of Christian values but embraces a man who embodies lies, hatred, fear, and retribution. These are not the values of Christ, and in fact are fundamentally anti-Christian.
One can be a patriot or one can vote Trump. One cannot do both. One can be a sincere and committed Christian or one can vote Trump. One cannot do both. That is the fundamental truth of this election.
VP Harris is not perfect, but she believes in the bedrock American values that before 2015 used to be shared by both political parties. Because the GOP has abandoned its values and its senses, the only way forward is to abandon it.
I was a Republican for most of my life. I cannot, it good conscience remain so. I cannot in good conscience advocate on behalf of the MAGA GOP. I can, in good conscience, advocate for a Democratic Party that is at least trying to govern, even though we may disagree.
There is but one choice in this election: either Harris/Walz or an openly fascist Trump. The choice is clear, and because VP Harris is trying to lead and trying to unite the country she is the only viable choice for anyone who cares about our values, our democracy, and our future.
