...and we continue to compromise and compromise and compromise for the sake of victory until we have gone from the point of having Statesmen as leaders to shysters or worse like both parties are facing this election cycle.
Maybe if enough people stopped letting themselves be told what is or isn't a winning proposition (following in herd mentality), and just stood up for what they believe, we can stop this march towards idiocracy.
At some point, people need to stand up and say Never!
Or, as William F. Buckley put it- standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!
Yes.
Everyone has a breaking point. This cycle I hit mine.
The last two elections gave me enough reason to support the GOP candidate, so (in my mind) my voting for McCain and Romney was justified.
Not this time. In fact every fiber of my being is telling me that both choices are wrong, and because of that I will take no part in elevating wrong to the level of POTUS.
I actually hope that I am dead wrong and that the political instincts that have served me so well for so many years have somehow dulled with time. I don't think so, but I hope so.
The thing is that if I am wrong, if Trump beats Hillary and turns out to be the savior of the Republic his supporters believe him to be, I will humbly accept being wrong, be grateful for all he does for the country and cede the point.
On the other hand, if his supporters are wrong, and he is the man that I believe that he is, his being elected could feasibly be more destructive to the nation, the GOP and conservatism in general than Hillary and her leftist ideology could ever be.