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Originally Posted by Platapus
At one time you may have been a Republican. But perhaps the party changed and not you?
I was a Republican all my life coming from a family of Republicans. In the past 20 years or so, the GOP has changed and changed in a way that no longer agrees with my opinions.
Hence, I am now an Independent.
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I don't see how the GOP has undergone any kind of fundamental change in the past 20 years that would isolate its traditional base, save the comparatively recent Tea-Party movement, which is shifting it more to economic right. Indeed, one of the driving factors behind the Tea Party is disillusionment with the Republican economic platform, which has failed to be conservative in everything other than name for the better part of a century.