This started out as a comment on Adam Feder's post, "I Haven’t Changed, the Left Has-Bill Maher’s Ideological Rupture and the Possibility of Voting Republican." https://www.skool.com/libertypolitics/i-havent-changed-the-left-has-bill-mahers-ideological-rupture-and-the-possibility-of-voting-republican But this rings very true for me, so I thought that with all due respect to Adam that I would make that comment my debut post. I wonder how many people here are former Democrats or "progressives"? Give me an idea in the comments, please. . I’m with Bill Maher. I was a Democrat for over 30 years, but they started to lose me when they turned on Israel and, thus, the Jewish people. 20 years ago I was a regular on Daily Kos as Karmafish and we were about as far-left at the time as the Democratic Party got. Hell, I voted for Ralph Nader in 2004. For those of you who do not know, Daily Kos was one of the most prominent and active progressive-left political blogs back in the day. It was a place to speak with the grassroots of the party and I used to say dKos was like a house with many rooms. The sign of one room read “feminism,” on another “environmentalism” and so on and so forth. But down a long hall hidden deep in the house was a room with a terrible smell with a sign that read “Israel-Palestine.” It reeked and rats scurried in and out. After that I began to reappraise the progressive-left and the Democratic Party more critically. I voted for Obama the first time around, but by 2012 I was very definitely out. And now it’s much worse! As you see in my profile, there is no way in hell that I am going to support a political party that confuses children on gender, that spreads hatred toward Jews and “Zionists” and that supports hiring and university admittance based on race. And now they’re openly flirting with socialism? AOC is cute, but she’s not THAT cute.