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A letter to people who disrespect others political affiliations

Can election season be over yet?

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A letter to people who disrespect others political affiliations
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As my family, friends and random people from high school I still have on Facebook know... I am a Democrat! (I'll wait for the gasp!) Okay with that said, it is Presidential election season as most of you know. So that means it is the time where everyone pretty much talks made s*%t about other parties but it is getting out of hand. I have gotten told countless times that I am a moron for voting for Hillary and that I am even going to Hell. I'm sure it is the same for people who are voting Trump.

While I personally hate Trump as I hate gifilte fish, everyone has the right to vote for whoever they want to. The colonists came to America to escape persecution and we have the freedom to believe in whatever you want. We do not live in a country where we all think and act the same and all have to vote for one person. The American government is full of people who believe in all sorts of different things from abortion to small government. While I am a Democrat and do not believe in what a lot of the Republican party stands for, this is America and that is okay!

I just watched a Tomi Lahren video and she called Hillary supporters morons, personally I did not take offense because I don't like her but that is what got me thinking about why can't people just respect other peoples political parties? This happens on both sides and the other political parties. So to the people who say Trump supporters are going to Hell or that Hillary supporters are morons, all I have to say is shut up. We like in a country where we can vote for whoever you want! So if you want to vote for Jill Stein, then you know what that's your right as an American of the United States. So just stop, just let people believe in whoever they want for POTUS. While you may not like it, just get over it. You will not change my mind and you will not change any one else's mind about their political affiliation.

So just stop and be thankful we live in a country where people can have their own believes and thoughts other than yours. The whole point of America is to have that diversity and for us to not live in a communist country where everyone is the same. So just let people be and if you want to argue okay go for it, just don't be rude and call them morons or other cruel names just because they don't believe in the same party as you.

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