beginnings…
In my attempts to see the world in a better perspective, I try this… It’s probably going to be a mess, but, it’s my mess, right?
So, I live in Alabama… yeah, it’s nuts, but work with me. In growing up as a stout southern Baptist, now turned Methodist, one might wonder what shift has occurred. If you guessed extreme right to extreme left, you might be on the right track.
It wasn’t until the election of 2000 that I really became involved in the political world. So, now I’m 4.5 years, going on 5 into the interest. In 2000, I won’t lie… I did vote for Bush. Why? Well, at that point, I believed what my church told me, and that was that… end of story. Pathetic, huh?
After 9/11, and the (what seems to be never-ending) war in Iraq, I began to re-think a lot of my strategies. So, maybe the better word is THINK about the strategy of politics. I realized I had my own viewpoint, and that it might be important. Upon seeing that the war had NOTHING to do with its original intentions, I really started to wonder. I started researching both parties… before I knew it, campaign season had begun again… and I went full-fledged into it.
I watched both conventions, checked out websites and really researched each candidate. What began as a gut feeling to vote the Democrat ticket began to really swell up and become more than just a vote. With each day that went by, I found myself agreeing more and more with the blue platform.
This is good… especially since I’m Methodist. Ha!
Anyways, being a democrat in an overwhelmingly populous red state can be pretty frustrating… and this is the attempt to relieve said frustration. Here’s hoping it might work.
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