Hello Fellow Democrats!

[Marc2010]

13. 'Fraid so

I was blinded by the lies of The Republicans and did not want to go against 'Party Status Quo'... the unspoken rule that you are supposed to vote for the Republican candidate, just for the sake of voting for the Republican candidate. And if you didn't 'vote for the sake of the party', then somehow you were just a mindless sheep

Well Trump really made me take a step back and look at who I was supporting and I asked myself why. And the only answer was 'I don't know'

For the first time, I started to look past the 'R' by the candidate name and started to look at the candidate himself, and again I did not like what I was seeing

I started asking questions of my fellow Republicans, looking for intelligent and honest discussion and instead just got a round of 'You ain't voting for Republican? Are you stupid or what? Durr herr herr'

The more I tried to press for open talk, the more of the same I got

When I approached Democrats and asked why I should vote for Hillary, I got honest and intelligent feedback not 'Just because'.

That really opened my eyes and saw that in the past I was behaving the same way that my fellow Republicans were acting when I announced I was thinking about voting other than for a candidate for no other than voting for the 'R' by their name, they acted like they wanted to rip me apart

I refuse to be a sheep in a herd who just bleats whatever he is told to, and votes for whomever he is told to.

I have my own mind and it is made up.