Why This Old White Christian Abandoned the Republican Party

This video was submitted to the Republicans Against Trump website, as they are asking for more people to tell their story, and I wanted my friends and neighbors to know my story regarding my politics. Before I released this video, I pondered whether I should tone down the rhetoric, but then I realized that although Christians should ordinarily be reluctant to object stridently and forcefully, that when Christians are confronting pure evil, they must be strident and forceful to hopefully snap their Christian friends from their moral slumber. Originally, I was a Democrat, in part because in the mid Seventies the Democratic Party was still the majority party by far in Florida, though after the election of Ronald Reagan as President in 1980 the Republican Party would slowly gain in strength, taking over the former Confederate states. The Monica Lewinsky scandal, and the libertine attitude of the Democratic Party, along with its support for gay rights and apparent disregard for Christian values, compelled me to switch to the party of morals at the time, the Republican Party. My ultimate re-conversion to the Democratic Party was preceded by an increased awareness of our country’s ugly Jim Crow racial history as I read the American history that I was not taught in school. Although I did not vote for John McCain for President in 2008, as I thought that Alan Greenspan and the Republican Administration’s criminally libertarian hands-off approach to regulators over many years led to the subprime mortgage crisis and near collapse of the world economy, I could not vote for Obama because of the gay rights position of the Democratic Party, a stance with which I am still uncomfortable, but then the Democratic Party is not a religion, I can be a card carrying Democrat without adopting all of its planks. The absolute disrespect shown to our President Barack Obama by many Republican Congressmen, Fox News, and the Tea Party movement was both deeply offensive and also reminded me of similar insults thrown about during the Jim Crow lynching years of our ugly history. It was the rise of the Tea Party movement that meant I now had an ugly choice, I could either support the party of morals, or I could support the party of compassion, but the choice was not really that ugly, because if you are not compassionate, than any morals you wear on your sleeve for show are fake morals, because compassion and morals go together. Script for this video, © Copyright 2021: https://www.slideshare.net/BruceStrom... Blog: https://wp.me/pachSU-AI Please support our efforts, be a patron, at:   / seekingvirtueandwisdom   Patrons can participate in online Zoom discussions of draft presentations we prepare for future YouTube videos. As Socrates teaches us, the examined life is a life worth living. We would be fools if we did not desire to learn from our multitude of friends whose words live in the works of the classics that have survived from past centuries and millennia. The Stoic and moral philosophers of Greece and Rome saw philosophy as an evangelical enterprise, seeking to spread the joy of living a godly life for its own sake. Our projects include: Studying the teachings of the ancient and modern stoic and moral philosophers on how to better lead a godly life. Studying ancient and modern history to learn moral lessons and learn how we can successfully live a life of faith in trying times, including civil rights and social gospel history. Studying issues of morality in the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Jewish traditions. Everyone should join and participate in their local church. However, my internet persona is purposefully obscure so that I can be respectful of all genuine Judeo-Christian traditions, I do not wish to be disrespectfully polemical. This is original content based on research by Bruce Strom and his blogs. Images in the Public Domain, many from Wikipedia, some from the National Archives, are selected to provide illustration. When images of the actual topic or event are not available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration. All events are portrayed in historical context and for educational purposes. No images or content are primarily intended to shock and disgust. The ancient world was a warrior culture out of necessity, to learn from the distant past we should not only judge them from our modern perspective but also from their own ancient perspective on their own terms.