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I quit fucking with the party after running for state house because of the weird racists and conservative libertarians. That was like 15 years ago.

The state chair from then asked for my support and I went ahead and went to the state convention before the last presidential election. I was pleasantly surprised. We passed a resolution on bodily autonomy and a very christian old dude gave a speech in favor of keeping abortion legal here. One of the active members was the gal that ran our pro-choice rallies and some of the younger dudes offered to conceal carry and run security for the speakers during the march. Abortion is still legal here. It was the only thing I could even vote for in the primaries lol.

The old racist fucks were at a table alone, and weren't thrilled.

I've always been more progressive on social shit and my ethics fit into leftist ideologies almost completely now, but I'll still chill with them when the convention rolls around next month.

I've interacted with them many times on Reddit and Facebook, and every single one is a pro-authoritarianism GOP shill pushing for fundamentally un-libertarian nonsense like banning abortions.

The problem with being such a small community is that it's pretty easy to get fucked over. As reddit closed the nutter conservative/alt-right subs libertarians had to retreat farther back to avoid them. We did have some more hidden away places that got less infiltration.