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Everybody has core beliefs. Some are rigid and some are flexible. Some core beliefs are better than others. Some or all are cancelled out by others on election day. I respect other's core beliefs — until they impinge on my life, as would be the case if you helped to elect Democrats by the way you vote or don't vote based on your "core beliefs". Then your core beliefs become problematical for me and for many others. It ain't just about you. Clinton was elected by people with core beliefs...so was Hitler, I suspect.

So you want to respect someone's core beliefs ... unless it's inconvenient for you. You're absolutely right, it's not about us... it's about YOU and all about winning. You could sit and watch this country fall over the abyss and not blink an eye. As long as it's YOUR guy leading the way. Sorry, stud muffin, but I am not suicidal nor fratricidal... nor do I wish to see my country go down the tubes just so YOU can have YOUR guy win an election. I'm sure you can appreciate that there are no GOOD choices in this election, so unless a good third party comes along, that slot will stay blank.

Then your core beliefs become problematical for me and for many others. It ain't just about you.

It isn't just about you either. I have a right to have my Conservative beliefs represented, through my vote.

Your less-Conservative beliefs (less Conservative than mine) become problematical for me, in that if the GOP keeps moving to the left/center and keeps getting elected, then they feel that Conservatives are approving of their policies, and there is nothing to keep them from moving even more to the left.

They'll reason "hey, people keep electing us, so they must approve of what we have been doing".

If we don't make a stand now, we risk the future of this nation being turned into another second or third world socialist mess. Sure, I'll be dead before it happens, but I don't want my grand-children or great-grand-children to have to deal with it then, because by then it's liable to be too late.

You can see me as a problem and I can see you as a problem, and maybe neither of us is right, but oh well, we are just going in circles now.