Crossposted from MY LEFT WING
There is a "conservative Republican" out there, voting for people like George W. Bush and watching Fox News occasionally, reading the literary offerings of the more erudite among the neocon apologists, desperately accumulating as many reasonable-sounding rationalisations for her political positions as she can.
This "conservative Republican" is a fraud, you see. She knows, deep down, that she's full of shit, that she's on the wrong side, that she's taken the lazy, "easy" way out -- and as a result, suffers an almost ever-present and very uncomfortable but also inchoate sense of impending doom.
Because she wasn't always this way. She used to be a -- wait for it -- liberal Democrat. She used to be an idealist. An activist, even; hell, maybe she even worked for Greenpeace or Planned Parenthood. Maybe she was really, really involved with the political process, convinced that the world could be a better place, if enough people put their minds and backs to it.
So what happened?
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