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Democrats and Republicans

Since the last 20 years of the previous century, I have seen these two groups change. Since the early to mid 1980s through the end of the 1900s, Republicans could be defined as lemmings, and Democrats as a herd of cats.  I mean this in the worst possible manner. The Republicans have had a core set of beliefs that you either completely agreed with, or you were "no true Republican."  They swallowed the purple-Kool-Aid.  It was always cut spending, lower taxes, help those in need through tax cuts, capitalism, gun rights, Christian-centric, Pro-Life, anti-Roe-v-Wade, pro-war, free speech (as long as it didn't run counter to the Republican beliefs), and a few others.  Very few, if any, Republicans were Pro-Choice because it was against the Christian-centric view.  Republicans won more states, more counties, and the office of President due to the core set of values in which they believed.  They drank the purple Kool-Aid and followed like lemmings.  They followed one set of