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My upbringing was not political ever and my parents never talked politics. My politics were learned over the last 50 years or so. The older I get though… I lean more left than right. It’s because the left does more for the working person. That’s a fact… the right wants to take benefits away from the working person. Help the rich stay rich by making loop holes in the tax code so the rich don’t have to pay taxes. How the right thinks they will help the population is by stopping some gun control and abortion. Both very passionate items to the far right. I am more about financial security for the average person than worrying about assault weapons. Myself being a lifetime hunter with many guns that doesn’t need an assault weapon and don’t see why anyone needs one. My semi auto shotguns will keep you out of my house. Just try to get in my house. Banning assault weapons…That doesn’t change my vote one way or the other. Most hunters don’t care.
Since I am a man and women should control their own body. If they want to terminate a pregnancy. The government should have no say in their decision. Our government doesn’t deserve a say and neither does any one person other than the person who might need an abortion for any reason. This doesn’t not change my vote to vote Republican. This is why I am independent and want the best for the people which is what the democrats seem to be doing the best for the average Joe. But make no mistake… I want someone that is not to environmental and will vote Republican if I have a choice between a conservative and a whacked environmentalist. I try to be a conservationist and believe we should be doing better in and for our environment. But we need a working economy and being to environmental is counter productive. We need to move that way over time and nothing to quick. I don’t like the far left as much as I don’t like the far right that want to make rules for me and women. No more rules because of your upbringing in the church and feel abortion is not a choice. It is a choice and women should have that choice. This is one reason why the SCOTUS should of never turned R vs W. Over 60% of all Americans believe abortion should be legal everywhere. The republicans are losing way more votes over this move by SCOTUS… it really backfired on the Republicans.
This is why I am independent as a voter and will not vote either extremist wing … be it right or left because the are both wack jobs. This is why independent votes are moving from one party to another and back. This is why elections are won or lost by the capture of the independent voters. The independent voters are the difference in all elections. This is why I judge each and every politician on their own merits. Don’t be to far right or to far left or you will not earn my vote. It’s that way with the growing independent voters every year. The two main parties are getting smaller and the independents are getting much larger and deciding elections.