I'm a registered Democrat but consider myself more of an old school Democrat (although I was born in the 90s): ie. More of a Kennedy type than a Clinton type and certainly not an Obamist. Maybe I'll go with the terms Reagan Democrat or Conservative Democrat (though not in the sense of Southern pro-Slavery Dems).
I'm registered Democrat mostly because of my family: My mother's side is mostly Democrats (My Mother's Uncle actually was the Democratic Deputy Mayor of my City, before my friend's Republican father defeated the mayor in 2004 and became mayor, now my uncle is a town councilor) and my Father's side is not politically affiliated. Plus I live in CT, which is mostly Dems. That being said I don't think Bush is as bad as people make him out to be and most people in my family don't care for Obama.
Basically I like the Democrats as they were pre-1960s (ie. when they were the party of the working class rather than the party of the crazy ideologies like Culture of Death Feminism, Gender Ideology, Class warfare, Black Power, etc.).
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