It is Time to Take Back Our Country

It’s Election Day in many areas across the U.S. Many people are wondering whether the Republicans can hold on to their power base or if the Democrats will stage a come back. In the words of the immortal Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind”: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!”

I will go on the record right here and say that I am one of those people from the “red” states. Yep, I’m a Republican; or at least I used to be. The real truth is, however, that I don’t feel I owe my allegiance to any party. After all, none of them have done a darn thing for me. Don’t get me wrong, I do realize how lucky I am to live in the greatest country in the world. I honestly still believe that Americans are some of the finest people God ever made. Oops, I said the dreaded “G” word. Guess that spills the beans. I’m also one of those awful Christians. Back to my point, though, I am a Caucasian female Republican Christian. Unfortunately, to a lot of people, that also means I’m the scum of the earth.

I’m not sure when that happened. I cannot put my finger on the moment that we began pointing fingers at one another, saying: “You are always right and you are always wrong.” I don’t exactly know when we began compartmentalizing people. Liberals are good but conservatives are bad. Atheists have a right to freedom of non-religion but Christians don’t have a right to freedom OF religion. Straights are moral and gays are immoral. Who made all these decisions? It wasn’t me and chances are it wasn’t even you. So why do any of us have to support political parties that opt to make rules that we don’t even want?