On the Choice for Mainstream Democrats to Either Get Out of Dodge or Hitch Their Wagon to a Party that Has Gone so Far Out of the Mainstream that it's Almost Unrecognizable to Many......and Do so Simply Because it's Your Team

 It was a no-brainer for me. I'm a registered Libertarian these days and while, yeah, I may have only been a nominal Democrat the past decade or so, to have that stench fully removed, priceless.