Rich Dunn's reply, with a title addressed personally to me, illustrates the deep, irreconcilable mental and psychological divide between the two Parties, and the pavlovian response so typical of Democrats -- attack the messenger, not the message. What makes it especially funny is that the best argument for the Democrats to vote for their candidate in AD40 was that he had been a good... Republican...? It's a free country and you can call yourself whatever you want, just as the people are free to see you for who you are.
And so the people have spoken yesterday.
Now, if you want to bring this discussion back to issues, not personalities on the silliest of terms, then you don't have to go very far to start. I have posted many pieces on this and other venues, explaining the problems with Common Core, 0bamacare and other recent examples of the century-long "progressive" march into the abyss of marxist "social justice." I did not have to go to school or read books to learn about that; I saw it first hand as a child in communist Hungary and socialist France through the unfortunate accident of having been born and raised there. But I am proud to share my "anti-government" attitudes with the likes of Jefferson, Madison, Reagan, Hayek and Ayn Rand, to name a few. (I'm having a senior moment and I can't think of the dozens of others who have enriched the literature of liberty over the centuries.)
I think this city and this website deserve better -- a discussion of principles and issues, not personalities.