Sheriff in Pennsylvania switches to GOP, says 'Democratic Party has left me'

Specific to law enforcement 1SGT, you mentioned those that want laws to be enforced. Let's not forget the opposite side of that and those are the people that don't want the laws changed because they don't agree with him. But yet these very same people don't vote. As I have taught my four daughters if you have something to complain about but do nothing about it what change have you accomplished? I'm a cop. Retired that I'm still a cop and it hurts deeply to see these riots that I see on TV where the politicians don't backup the Chiefs of Police and Sheriff's. What politician in his or her right mind allows a police precinct to be taken over, looted, and then burned to the ground? The sheriff of Los Angeles County is a Democrat. But he stands up for law enforcement. Just watch this video.

https://youtu.be/-i-KiDNwD2k

I think those of us that tend to be more Centrist, although I tend to lean more conservatively, would accept that. I am fiscally conservative and believe that when I work my ass off I deserve to keep the fruits of my labor.

But I was raised in a very poor family. Had it not been for government assistance and hand me down clothes from churches and whatnot I would have gone completely without. So I do have inside of me the capability of stepping over the line to the liberal side.

Here's the paradox of my life. From the age of 16 I have been involved in law enforcement. I was a military policeman and then out of the military and into civilian law enforcement. That career path tends to be conservative to begin with. Cops tend to be conservative and nurses tend to be more liberal. That's one reason you'll see it common to have the two of them marry one another. Let me make this make sense now.

In 2007 my five-year-old daughter was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Over religious differences that prevented treatment of my daughter I ended up getting divorced and getting custody and legal authority to make medical decisions to save her life. Suddenly the type A conservative, kick ass and don't bother taking names individual became a nurse. Not with a certificate but the work I did. It changes you. It brought out in me the more liberal side that isn't so obvious.

I can accept that this Sheriff that has been a Democrat his entire life may very well have some democrat leanings still remaining within him. That's okay! The goal in life should not be to search for what it is that divides us, but to find what unites us! That's the problem is I see it with our country. I'm not talking about the nonsense with the Democrats paying for hired thugs to start riots either. I'm just talking about every life. Look for the similarities and not the differences.

I wish the sheriff's well.

Not so true... I switched from democrat to republican after years. I never voted straight democrat or republican, I voted according to the individual's stance on issues. However when the democrats went to democrat socialist that was it. Oh, and I'm from Westmoreland County too.

LTC Kevin B. perhaps because the current platform of cheaper drugs, school choice especially for the underprivileged, protecting civil rights, opposition to socialism, defeating illegal immigration, defeating judicial activism, and more are already in motion. Now why don't you articulate what's the Democratic platform is? That's right. They don't have one. Joe Biden won't even tell us who would be on his Supreme Court list of nominees because they're so far left of left that they're in another planetary system.

SSG Robert Ricci The Democratic Party has a platform. Google is your friend.

With that being said, is that your "go to" response? I didn't even bring up the Democratic Party.

LTC Kevin B. with all due respect LTC, I don't use Google to form my opinion. I've been studying political science for a very, very long time. So have Democrats. Clearly I'm a conservative. We see things fundamentally different. But let's be intellectually honest here. You inversely brought up the Democrats when you stated that the Republicans don't have a platform. You gave the implication that the Democrats do. The platform the Democrats have is to win the election and turn us into a socialist country surrendering all of our rights. Are you that willing to give up your first and second amendment rights especially as someone that fought for those rights? Are you honest enough to admit that the writing that is taking place in Democrat States has a point to it? The biggest problem I have with sites like Facebook, YouTube, Patreon, and he even here at RP is that people just type words knowing there's little to no consequence for what they say. I wonder how things might be different if people actually thought through the real-life ramifications have the positions they take. That includes me although I do my best.

SSG Robert Ricci - Google is simply a means of quickly confirming that the Democratic Party does indeed have a platform. Whether or not you agree with it (or I agree with it) is immaterial. And, I didn't bring up the Democratic Party. Your attempt to build any implications into what I wrote is simply your attempt to move the discussion onto terra firma for yourself. Lastly, you're not the only person who has studied this stuff for years. I'm no spring chicken myself.