My parents didn't seem to have much interest in politics. As far as I know, they didn't belong to either party until my mother joined the Republican Party to get her job at the North Haven Town Hall. When the Democrats finally ousted the GOP, she was told she could keep her job if she registered as an independent, which she did, and, after much grumbling, she eventually said that the Democrats treated her better than the Republicans had. But she still didn't care for the people who replaced her boss.
    My brother, Wayne, on the other hand, took the Republican party to his heart and there it still remains.
    Me? When I finally turned 21 and was old enough to vote, I registered as a Republican, since my mother was still a Republican. I voted for Nixon and didn't like Kennedy. But I really had not much of a political interest. In 1960, I was probably slightly to the right of center; now I'm way to the left, not because my few political feelings have changed that much but because the conservatives have pulled the party way to the right and now, in response, some of the Democrats are moving far to the left.
    In early 2018 I finally gave up on those idiots who currently call themselves Republicans. They don't seem to know anything about Republican political ideology or even Conservative ideology. Their only ideology seems to be if the Democrats are for it, they're against it; if the Democrats are against it, they're for it. So now I'm an independent.
    The way it looks to me these days is that herding "Republicans" is like herding sheep while herding Democrats is like herding cats. And Will Rogers's statement back in the 1930s that "I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat" seem to still be true

    I do believe Donald Trump when he says he's a "stable genius." I've been in stables and I know what they're full of. And donkeys are often considered smarter than horses, so a "stable genius" would be a jackass.