We don’t need threads for every avatar change.
Also, it's better to change from the inside, to persevere and hope for a better future. If the people who switched stayed, we'd have a better chance at reform.
Yeah, I agree with this. If you truly want to change the Republican Party into the party that you loved then you have to work for it and not quit. There’s an example of this is the Dallas News today where gay rights activists within the party have worked for forty years to get language accepting gay people in the platform and they finally did this year.
While I can’t account for Winfield (who himself will likely continue to vote straight ticket GOP), I retain the right to vote in Republican primaries as I wish, living in Michigan and all. That said, I opted to switch my Atlas affiliation for a number of reasons, primarily being that it seemed to no longer for (and that’s because of me, not “the party”).