*sighs*

[silentflux]

This is how I feel. Steve Schmidt just articulates it better than I would. Growing up, listening to the two parties define and debate their issues is how I made decisions, how I discovered which candidate I would vote for in the election. I lean Democrat, but I have voted for Republicans when their issues and standings are something that I agree

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[enigmaticblues]

That's pretty much it in a nutshell, right there.

When I was younger, my dad and I were talking politics. I was maybe 20 or 21 and still hadn't quite figured out where I was going to land, and my dad was a dyed-in-the-wool Republican. Not like you see today, but the way it was almost 20 years ago when you could still shake hands across the aisle with folks. Anyway, he talked about how much he admired one of the Democrats he knew because they had party loyalty and would vote for someone even if they didn't personally like that person, and how that's why the GOP was struggling, because they wouldn't.

I remember that today because he's now said that he likely will not vote for a presidential candidate. He can't bring himself to vote for Hillary because he's swallowed the lies and rhetoric spat out over the last 20 years, but he also can't hold his nose and vote for Trump either.

I think the GOP is beginning to awaken to the nightmare they've created for themselves these last 20 years. I don't know how or when it will change, but I hope that it does.

[silentflux]

I think it's sad. I have a lot of friends who are more "conservative" than me and say they're just going to leave the top of the ticket blank. Which is ridiculous to have such party loyalty. Country should come before party and I think a lot of people (on both sides) forget that.

I just saw the post below on FB and this is what I've been wanting to say to people around here, but it's just not worth it since so many of them think you can't be friends with people you disagree with *rolls eyes*

Bill Clinton cheats on his wife. Impeach him. Trump proudly brags about sexual assault (and has cheated on his wives). Elect him. Hillary oversaw the department of state while 4 people died in an embassy attack. Put her in jail. 2 Republicans were in office while over 200 people died in embassy attacks. No problem. Immigrants don't pay taxes. Round them up and kick them out. Trump doesn't pay taxes. He's a business genius. Hillary's foundation only spent 87% of their donations helping people. She's a crook. Trumps foundation paid off his debts, bought sculptures of him, and made political donations to avoid investigations while using less than 5% of funds for charity (and he got shut down by NY State). So savvy... Put him in the white house. Trump made 4 billion dollars in 40 years, when an index fund started at the same time with the same "small loans" he received would be worth $12 billion today... without a trail of bankruptcies, thousands of lawsuits and burned small business owners. He's a real business whiz. Hillary took a loss of $700k. She's a criminal. Trump is the first candidate in the modern era not to release his tax returns, and took a billion dollar loss in 1 year. Genius. Hillary takes responsibility for private email servers and apologizes. Not credible. Trump denies saying things (on the record) he actually said (on the record), he's just telling it like it is.

Your arguments are thin. Your ignorance of reality is shocking. Your double-standards are offensive, and your willingness to blindly support him and recycle the rhetoric is absurd. Your opinion is not fact. Your memes are not news articles. And your hypocrisy is not a platform.