gatt writes:

Here's one of the reasons I'm no longer a Republican. They lie like
Democrats and then believe their own lies, and try to convince millions of
otherwise-thinking people to believe them too.

One sign of the decline of a democracy is that people become attached to
political parties, rather than interest themselves in individual candidates
and politicians. They systematically reject all parties other than their own,
and unconditionally support their own party, which leads to all sorts of
manipulation and abuse. I guess it's easier to blindly accept and reject
based on a single group criterion (party affiliation) than it is to actually
evaluate individuals on their own merits. Unfortunately, it's also a path to
totalitarianism.

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