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For over 30 years I was a Republican but for the past 16 years I have leaned Democrat. Why did I change? Mostly because of the experience that comes with age and realizing that sharing, fairness, and family are more important than economics.
As a side note but still using it as an example, I have met quite a few very rich people that were not loved and had no one to share their wealth with (meaning an empty life) and have seen poor people that had quite a few economics problems but their lives were full of love, sharing and sacrifice for each other. The latter were much happier than the former as money cannot buy love and sacrifice for each other. I personally value emotional happiness than economic wealth.
The Republican mentality is more about personal accomplishment and removing obstacles to accomplishing that and the Democratic mentality is more about sharing the wealth among all the American family and finding ways to open doors for equal opportunity for all for economic advancement for those that did not start with a "silver spoon" in their mouths and were having trouble going forward even though talented because of economic and living conditions.
Having said all of that, I never went forward to vote because every candidate for the presidency had some redeeming quality to them that ultimately would have them try to do the right thing and given that all of us are imperfect, if a president did something imperfect (like Bush Jr. did), those imperfections would not be deadly to the nation and would be overcome ultimately by others that followed.
As such, party affiliation and party platforms were never all that important to me.
I have said all of the above to say unequivocally that my negative posts about Trump have nothing to do with the politics of one side or the other though if asked, I do have opinions but my opinions are not strong enough either way as to say one side is totally wrong or right.
Nonetheless, when it comes to the man that is leading this nation (not talking about the party), that is a complete other matter. Trump is incompetent, a liar, uncaring about doing right, has no morals, principles, ethics or humanity and such a person can do untold and often irreparable damage to the nation and to the people. One simple example of this is the lack of trust that is now felt against this country because of him. If he loses reelection and someone else comes in that lack of trust will not go away simply because someone trustworthy might be in charge. All nations now know that this country is flawed deeply just because we allowed such a person to be elected. They will not trust us anymore (as they did in the past) given that a trustworthy person may only be around 4-8 years and even if he is going to be trustworthy for that period of time, can we ever get back together as a nation with people like McConnell running the Senate? This is irreparable damage that has occurred.
All of us (both Republicans and Democrats) have to get together to get rid of "bad" persons in spite of our party leanings. Bad people will ultimately be bad for everyone. If we have a person that has at least one of the requisites (morals, ethics, principles, and humanity) we will survive as a nation. With people like Trump and McConnell, we die.
As a side note but still using it as an example, I have met quite a few very rich people that were not loved and had no one to share their wealth with (meaning an empty life) and have seen poor people that had quite a few economics problems but their lives were full of love, sharing and sacrifice for each other. The latter were much happier than the former as money cannot buy love and sacrifice for each other. I personally value emotional happiness than economic wealth.
The Republican mentality is more about personal accomplishment and removing obstacles to accomplishing that and the Democratic mentality is more about sharing the wealth among all the American family and finding ways to open doors for equal opportunity for all for economic advancement for those that did not start with a "silver spoon" in their mouths and were having trouble going forward even though talented because of economic and living conditions.
Having said all of that, I never went forward to vote because every candidate for the presidency had some redeeming quality to them that ultimately would have them try to do the right thing and given that all of us are imperfect, if a president did something imperfect (like Bush Jr. did), those imperfections would not be deadly to the nation and would be overcome ultimately by others that followed.
As such, party affiliation and party platforms were never all that important to me.
I have said all of the above to say unequivocally that my negative posts about Trump have nothing to do with the politics of one side or the other though if asked, I do have opinions but my opinions are not strong enough either way as to say one side is totally wrong or right.
Nonetheless, when it comes to the man that is leading this nation (not talking about the party), that is a complete other matter. Trump is incompetent, a liar, uncaring about doing right, has no morals, principles, ethics or humanity and such a person can do untold and often irreparable damage to the nation and to the people. One simple example of this is the lack of trust that is now felt against this country because of him. If he loses reelection and someone else comes in that lack of trust will not go away simply because someone trustworthy might be in charge. All nations now know that this country is flawed deeply just because we allowed such a person to be elected. They will not trust us anymore (as they did in the past) given that a trustworthy person may only be around 4-8 years and even if he is going to be trustworthy for that period of time, can we ever get back together as a nation with people like McConnell running the Senate? This is irreparable damage that has occurred.
All of us (both Republicans and Democrats) have to get together to get rid of "bad" persons in spite of our party leanings. Bad people will ultimately be bad for everyone. If we have a person that has at least one of the requisites (morals, ethics, principles, and humanity) we will survive as a nation. With people like Trump and McConnell, we die.