Good Morning!
The thing that immediately comes to mind, whether you agree or disagree, is how I’ve changed from an Independent to a Republican. Here we go, this ought to be interesting.
In 1974, in my senior year of High School, I was already registered for the draft and had just registered as an Independent, as I wanted the freedom to vote my conscience, which I knew would disagree, from time to time, with one of the two main parties. I would finally get my first chance to put my opinions into practice in my first presidential election. Regretfully, I chose Jimmy Carter, who I still greatly admire for his work with Habitat for Humanity and for being an overall religiously grounded human being, but I learned that doesn’t make or qualify you as a good president
In 1979, I voted for Republican candidate Ronald Reagan, whom I truly felt was the right man for the job and still admire presidentially to this day. Rebuilding our economy and addressing our adversaries around the world through “Peace through Strength”. I found myself more and more a Republican as a Catholic, religious, conservative wanting the government to be accountable for expenditures, showing the positive results of their spending. I strayed only once since these formative roots and ended up regretting it. It was a time when I thought we could use a third party over (to keep the other two honest), and disregarding my gut feeling, I voted for Ross Perot who made great business sense in running the country but in the only caused George H Jefferson Bush the election to yet another Democrat, Bill Clinton. Ugh!
Bill went on to push his WFTAO (World Free Trade Agreement Organization), lining both his and his family’s pockets by ultimately selling American Manufacturing and jobs overseas to the cheap, unrestricted governance of those companies running there to make more money than ever and in total disregard to workers safety, wages, hours, age restrictions, healthcare etc… He basically sold us, the American Workers Jobs out to foreign interest.
Then, on 9/11/01, everything changed for me. I switched my party affiliation to Republican and haven’t looked back since. I am pleased with our current President for restoring normalcy to America. I just wish he would do it with less bravado and more humility. Still, again, he’s a proponent of something I now greatly admire in a leader America First, Fair Trade, bring Manfacturing back to our shores and most importantly use, “Peace through Strength”.
Point to Ponder: Politics are more complex today because we must sift through the biases in our so-called news sources, which are often funded by individuals or groups, some of whom may have foreign interests that drive a specific agenda. Generally, our decisions at the polls reflect the circumstances of the time at each election. However, life is constantly changing, and as humans, we are generally more equipped to adapt to these changes through a process of cause and effect.
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