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Wait, don’t leave the blue tent just yet

They voted Trump 2016, Biden in 2020, now deserting us because of the progressives

Markokenya
2 min readOct 4, 2021

Is it possible that defectors from the Democratic Party’s tent are swinging a little too far to the right in response to their bad experience at the hands of the far left?

I am a Joe Biden democrat. I can’t be a republican: no church dictatorship for me. No closed-shop mind control against the poor by a few rich people. No use of the flag and nationalism to bait me into buying your humble servant trick. Fuck off.

On the other hand, I will never support the far left. Their motives are corrupt — they want nothing except the destruction of wealth, to bring everyone down to their miserable level, so they can feel less bitter about their lack of achievement.

The center needs to survive. It needs to thrive, and it needs to smash the notion that only two parties are needed in America’s future. The red party is no longer a real party: it has gone on a crack smoking binge and has descended into mental illness, appealing only to an angry mob of uneducated white people and a small group of greedy powerful architects of mass poverty. The centrist agenda is the one for you and me. It supports hard work, real families with real lives, middle class people who want to do something good, and it supports diversity, equal opportunity, and freedom of religion. It supports a melting pot of cultures where no church can control us, no hate group can…

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Markokenya
Markokenya

Written by Markokenya

San Francisco geek, entrepreneur, wannabe economist, mediocre equestrian

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