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Dear GOP: This is why we're calling it quits

I am no liberal. If anything I am one of the staunchest critics of liberal-progressive political theory. I have devoted hours of my time and schooling into pouring over just what makes it such a flimsy ideology, prone to exploitation and contradiction. My skepticism had led me to hold firmly to the Republican Party. This because I recognize that a self-gratifying world of eternally contrived rights will inherently lead to chaos. Because I see that moral ambiguity also leads to political ambiguity and the justification of oppression in the name of order. There can be no individual truth or liberty if there is not a universal one. The appeal of the Republican Party for years, then, was its hold on the idea of a universal truth. I’m less interested in whether this is based in God, religion, natural law, or even historical precedence. The acceptance of a standard allowed them the freedom to make rational adjustments to policy. It created its own sphere of order not likely to fall into