As 2017 wraps up in less than a month and 2018 approaches, I decided it was time that I am clear with where I stand on the political spectrum.

A little bit of that also has to do with the fact that I will be 20 in a couple months and should pay attention to how the country I live in is being run.

Crazy idea right? Actually paying attention to something that could affect me as an adult. That complaint is for another day and another article. I decided that I am in the middle or somewhere along those lines and for all those who feel the same, that is okay.

My reasoning is mostly due to how I grew up but also my own beliefs as a millennial and a young adult in 2017 looking down into the future. My personal beliefs tend to lean towards liberal. Love is love is love. Birth control should be accessible to everyone to prevent unplanned pregnancies.

Pro-choice because it is your body, you do what you want to do. It is your choice. I advocate so social issues and am vocal about it. While I have those liberal views which are associated with the democratic party, I do have strong views that are associated with the Republican party.

I believe that there should be an emphasis on military right now with our spending and more military action should be taken due to where the world is with terrorism of ISIS and North Korea. With how I grew up, my parents have done everything right in life as far as always working, going to college and getting an education, in general just being a middle-class family.

With the money that was made from the jobs my parents work, I get no help with college at all even though we barely have the funds to afford it. I believe something should be about that.

Also where the money is going with Narcan. Some of those who do drugs are being saved but then go right back to using. They won't get better until they have the will to.

With all of that being said about myself and my beliefs, you can see that I am very much in the middle with certain aspects of both parties appealing to me. It is okay not to identify as one or the other. When voting, I chose who I thought would do the best job, not because I was one party or the other and that is okay. Being in the middle is sometimes the best thing because you can see both sides of issue.

In the end, we all relativly want the same thing. It is just how you get there that seperates the two.