Reply #32: Too late [View All]

[Pastiche423]

My departure from the Democratic Party finally arrived after my state's 2004 primary. It was not a hasty departure.

The push to initiate my leaving occurred prior to the '02 mid term. Still holding onto a thin ribbon of hope, on October 10 I sat at my computer all day and into the wee hours of the next morning.

That ribbon was cut into tiny pieces as I heard one Aye vote after another come from the mouths of Dems on the IWR. That's IT, I thought! After more than thirty years, it's time to go.

Yet, I found it enormously difficult to say my farewells. One more chance, I told myself. I would work myself ragged for the party. And I did. I formed a Meet Up in my community; then another in a town 30 miles away. I campaigned, organized fund raisers and candidate forums, gave out literature, etc.

But it was all for naught. The leaders of the Democratic Party I had worked so hard and so many years for, no longer hold the same beliefs and ethics nor advocate the causes I do. The divide now is too far to breach.

I will still work as an activist in my community and state, only no longer as a Democrat.