(10-06-2018, 10:00 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(10-05-2018, 11:08 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: My voting record speaks for itself and I take responsibility for what I'm responsible for, ie me. Trump was better than Hillary but not good enough to win my vote. I'm a Militant Libertarian, I want to take over the government and then defund it and leave everyone the hell alone. At least I don't pretend to be something I'm not like all you True Republicans Orkos actively cheering against your own party when they finally show some guts. You're all just beta boys, sitting in the corner while the Dems dance with your girl, praying you'll get a turn someday but knowing deep inside you won't.

Your voting record is not available to anyone because they take your name off the ballot before they start counting.
I don't care if you think I'm a "True Republican" or not.  I know what my registration card says.  I know how I've voted, usually for Republicans, sometimes not.  The only reason to register for a party is to influence it and vote in its primaries. That's what I did. It's not a matter of identity. I'm no more or less Republican than anybody who has registered with the party.
So many of the errors and hyperventilating and pants wetting that you may see among people when they discuss politics is due to them making it an identity, or believing that one of the parties hates or upholds the other aspects of their identity. 
To be fair, if you were a black person in the south in the first part of the twentieth century, the Democratic party really did hate your identity. If you were a gay person in any part of the twentieth century, the Republican party really did want you to be punished for what you might be doing behind closed doors in the privacy of your home. But both of those issues are basically resolved now, and most people were never gay or black in the first place, yet to this day most of us seem to approach politics like our identity is under attack.
I think both of us have, at least once, watched a girl we like get affection from another man. That's a common experience. For me it was almost 15 years ago.  That feeling sucks. Politics never makes me feel that way because I don't confound it with my identity or love life.