Sounds like they think we are slaves that have run away from the plantation.
In their minds we are. The GOP has treated Constitutional Conservatives, the TEA party folks who don't strictly fit that group, and others who are social conservatives, with contempt, expecting, even seemingly feeling entitled to, their votes because there is (in their minds) nowhere else for the aforementioned folks to go.
It is almost funny the way the folks in the GOP rail at the Democrats for their Plantation, where black and other minority votes are purchased with special considerations, and those folks vote Democrat in return, even if they don't get what was promised, but there has been a failure to identify or acknowledge the Republican Plantation, where captive Conservatives are expected to vote or get the proverbial lash.
It should come as no surprise that those of us who aren't playing that game any longer, who are sick and tired of being thrown under the bus every election cycle, have moved on to less heavily grazed and much 'less fertilized' pastures. Grumblings and murmurs of such among the disaffected have been going on for some time.
Nor is it surprising that the reaction to that is generally harsh and full of violent rhetoric; somehow the GOP seems to think it is 'entitled' to those votes, even though it hasn't delivered squat despite decades of promises.
There are other places to go.
