Do you see yourself as more Republican
or leaning more Democrat?

Oh my,
I’m a card-carrying Republican.
Came from a long patriarchal line
of red-blooded Republicans.

What makes you a Republican?
What is Republicanism, do you think?

Well…being against the Democrats, mostly.

OK.
I get that.
But, what are Republicans for
that Democrats are at least not in favor of
enough to give it sufficient priority
for you to feel economically and politically comfortable?

Republicans are Freedom Fighters.
Give us liberty or death.

Well, presumably we will all have both,
eventually,
but liberty for what,
freedom to what,
freedom from what?

Free markets
and freedom of religion
and free from terrorist
and communist
and immigrant threats,
to begin with;
freedoms protected by our Constitution.

And presumably Democrats are, then,
for unfree regulated markets,
prescribed and proscribed religious derision,
because they are all liberal atheists anyway,
and more willing to tolerate terrorism and socialism
as part of Earth’s sick political and economic bounty,
and are, at best, ambivalent about freedoms
and values
asserted by monotheistic Constitutional authorities,
fundamentalistically interpreting
their Original Historical-Cultural Intent.

That sounds about right.

Would you agree that the Preamble
and the somewhat older Declaration of Independence
bear seminal weight
for establishing the Constitution’s intent
with regard to protection and promotion of freedoms?

Maybe.

Democratic freedoms
during our pre- through post-revolutionary period
were originally defined by contrast
against a traumatic unfree history
of economic and political aristocracy.
Our interdependent constitution as a free nation
composed of States with their own democracy enriching
intentional constitutions
were statements that we would not be owned
nor tyrannically controlled,
taxed and terminated,
by royal decree.

Freedom from kleptocratic authorities lies within our U.S. Constitution’s purpose
to establish a liberal union of democracies,
to live in interdependent cooperative freedoms
in which political authority’s boundaries
no longer exceed compassionate economic co-invested co-responsibilities.
Which party would you argue
is more articulate about sustaining freedoms from autocratic
centralizing
power trends and systems
advocating eco-political outcomes
of jingoistic nationalism
that disguise caste privilege of the rich and powerful
becoming ever more rich and controlling?

Well, I’m not sure.
That would probably be the Greens
or the Libertarians.

And,
which party is more liberally committed
to supporting regenerative interdependent responsibilities
to sustain future generations
of balanced democratic freedoms
from pathological plutocratic authorities
and growing grass-root freedoms to become responsibly,
compassionately,
co-responsible nurturers and health caring
of and for Earth’s future cooperatively renewing
and self-regenerating
Commons?

That would be the polyamorous Green polyculturalists.

So, why aren’t you that,
instead of a MAGA card-carrying Republican?

Oh, that’s your easiest question yet:
Because nobody votes for the Greens,
and hardly anybody has even heard,
much less smelled or seen,
a cooperatively integral
Permaculture Designer
or compassionately nonviolent communicator
or restorative justice of peace.

Unless you count democratic
root-systemic trees
and liberally fertilizing bees,
pantheistic plants
and compassionately communicating ecosystems.

But we don’t.
They can’t vote.

Neither do xenophobic
caste-privileged
monopolistic
straight white male dominant
rich and powerful
kleptocratic corporations.

Do you see Constitutional Intent
as more Republican corporate
or leaning more Democrat
MotherTrees and bees?