I posted this on Facebook. Re-posting here.
Dear conservatives,
I know you guys. I've seen your posts go by on Facebook and Twitter. You're good people. But the party you've long supported has left you.
You say you support gay rights, they don't. You say you support women's rights. They don't. You acknowledge that we're living in the 21st century.
They don't.
They have become what used to be their lunatic fringe that they used to distance themselves from. They have been taken over by crony capitalists - vulture capitalists by Newt Gingrich's definition- and religious extremists.
One group would gladly send jobs overseas to make more money for them and they're obscenely wealthy friend. The other want to replace the constitution - which they claim to love - with "God's law" which was always in the constitution except it wasn't. The end game for these people is literally a Christian Taliban. A theocratic group who would hold us all in fear of their Department Of Virtue And Vice. All Americans, and especially American Christians, should be horrified by this. And I suspect some of you are, but you are keeping quiet because you think that will help you win. But consider who you will put in power by doing this.
Now, I'm the latest in a long family line of Democrats. I've spent my whole life being distrustful or outraged by Republicans - and please understand I mean the politicians and not you. But I have never seen these elements so naked and obvious. Your party has embraced racists, conspiracy theorists, and the dangerously misinformed in order to take power and achieve one or both of their above goals.
Mitt Romney is not you. He thinks you are mooches who don't need health insurance because you can go to the ER and you could buy insurance if you weren't so lazy.
Rick Santorum is not you. He thinks you are unAmerican because you dare think that maybe other human beings are okay too. He and his like have tied religion to politics so tightly that now "Conervative" means "Christian" and "Liberal" means "something else that's evil and unAmerican because we're all Christians here, buddy." This is toxic and surely many of you recognize it as so.
You are decent. They are not. You've been left behind.
Just think about it.
Robb.