I'm a small "r" Republican, and a capital "C" Conservative.  I'm a Conservative first, and a Republican second -- with some Libertarianism mixed in for good measure.

Like it or not, the two-party system is what we've got.  Barring a political revolution (which requires far more more energy than most people have nowadays) -- we are stuck with the two parties as the major players & power brokers in America's political power structure.

By no means whatsoever do I agree with everything that the Republican party does......in fact, they often disappoint me greatly.  But the beast is what it is.  Outside of the pre-existing two-party structure: one will find oneself extremely limited to fringe status, in political terms.  So the choice -- if one actually wants to matter politically, and not just be making some sort of self-serving "statement" based upon political purism -- is to work within the two-party system as it exists.

It's not an ideal world that we live in.  As it's been said: "politics is the Art of the Possible".  Much as some of us might wish that it were true -- politics is not the "Art of the Perfect"; because Man himself is not perfectible.  And that's another point over which "right-wingers" and "left-wingers" tend to part company, philosophically.  That's why one side thinks that brutal dictators can be negotiated with and talked out of their innate brutality and their driven lust for conquest & power -- while the other side realizes that such thinking is nothing more than a dangerous pipe dream: and that this is a dangerous world......so that you need to keep your powder dry and the edge of your sword always sharp.  If you want to remain free, that is.

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