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Hey, reddit. This is the guy who created this sub. Why would I do that? I grew up in a traditional conservative family. We spent countless hours listening to Rush Limbaugh on our way to school in the morning, and then Rush again in the evening on our way home. <br><br>I remember the first time I heard Obama speak in the summer of 2004. I was maybe 12 at the time. My gut reaction was that he was a bad guy who wanted to do bad things to the country. I think my family and I were pretty standard conservative Americans. At least, we thought we were. We'd spend hours reading Glenn Beck books about the coming civil war between conservatives and liberals. I must've been 8 when I first read 1984, from my public school library. That message stuck with me.<br><br>Then Obama got elected. I was 16. I watched in horror as he was elected again, at 18. I remember how angry I was. How could this be? I felt like the world was going to absolute shit.<br><br>Donald Trump came on the scene when I was still young. At the time, I didn't think much of him. I still had faith in the system.<br><br>Then one day I started to chew on the seed in my mind. "What if." What if everything I thought I knew about politics was a lie? I started reading. I read from both ends of the political spectrum. It wasn't long before I had transitioned into a Democrat. If I'm being completely honest, a socialist. Why? At the end of the day, I don't want anybody to starve. I don't want anybody to be homeless. I believe everyone should have a fair chance to pursue their dreams, and that everyone should have clean water and clean air. I believe that everyone should have access to quality healthcare. I don't want to see children in cages. I don't want to see police brutally assault poor minorities, who are just trying to make ends meet. I want everyone to feel like they have a chance to succeed.<br><br>As you can probably guess, this didn't go over well with my family. My parents are divorced, and I got the liberal gene from my mom. She, at least, made the transition with me. My dad? Not so much. He still hates me for voting for Biden. Fuck it, I'm 24 now. I can handle it. He'll come around. Or he won't, and that's okay.<br><br>I know you hate Democrats. I know you hate "socialism." I know you hate Biden. I know you hate me. You think I'm lazy, stupid, and jealous. I get it. I'm a failure to you. That's okay.<br><br>But I want you to step out of your comfort zone for a minute. I want you to listen. I'm scared. I'm fucking terrified. I want to live in a world where everyone has a chance to succeed. I want to live in a world without climate change. I want to live in a world where no child goes to bed hungry. I want to live in a world where everybody has free medical care and dental care and mental health services. I want to live in a world where unborn babies are protected. I want to live in a world where you, yes, you, have a fair chance to pursue your dreams. I want to live in a world where conservatives and liberals can come together and respect each other.<br><br>But I don't live in that world. I live in this one, where Trump has convinced you that liberals are evil entities who want to erase your individuality and turn you into some kind of zombie robot.<br><br>I'm not that. I want to help you. I want to help you because you're human. I want to help you because I love you. I want to help you because you're my neighbor. Why would I ever want anything bad to happen to you? I don't. I want you to thrive. I want you to have food, water, air, shelter, healthcare, and a chance to pursue your dreams. I want you to have a fair voice in the government. I want you to be able to vote without worrying about your safety. I don't want police to brutally assault you just because you're trying to make ends meet. I don't want you to ever feel like you're alone, or that nobody cares about you. I do. I care about you. I love you, even if you're a conservative.<br><br>Donald Trump doesn't give a fuck about you. He's a billionaire who cares about one thing: getting re-elected so that his sons won't be charged for obstruction of justice. If you think Trump cares about you, you're deluded. That's okay. We all get there at some point, right? It's okay to admit you were wrong. It's okay to change your mind. I did. My mom did. We're better off for it.<br><br>If you voted for Trump, I'm asking you. Please, please do not vote for him again. If you do, I fear for the future of our country. I'm not saying that to be dramatic, I'm saying that because I truly feel that way. I want you to thrive. I want everyone to thrive. We can't do that with Donald Trump at the helm. He is not a president. He is not a leader. He has never been a good person, for his entire life. Why should that change now? It won't. It can't. I want to live in a world where everyone has a chance to pursue their dreams, in a country that's safe for everyone. I want you to have that chance, too. I want you to live a long, happy life. I don't want police to come into your house in the middle of the night and arrest you because you get anxiety and need some pot to calm down.<br><br>I don't want Trump to ever again have the ability to deploy the military against our own citizens. I don't want him to ever again lock children in cages and cause them psychological trauma. I don't want him to ever again spend millions of dollars on golf trips and other vacations. I don't want him to ever again appoint coalition-bent, uneducated, and treasonous people to high-ranking government offices. I don't want him to ever again lie to you. I don't want him to ever again steal your tax money and spend it on quick fixes for problems he created. I don't want him to ever again turn a blind eye to the murder of innocent people. I don't want him to ever again brutalize innocent people. I don't want him to ever again split up families. I don't want him to ever again make it harder for poor people to vote. I don't want him to ever again promote racism. I don't want him to ever again break the law. I don't want him to ever again appoint corrupt judges to our courts. I don't want him to ever again appoint someone who has no regard for the environment to run the EPA. I don't want him to ever again appoint someone who has no regard for education to run our schools. I don't want him to ever again appoint someone who has never slept a single night in a military uniform to run the DoD. I don't want him to ever again appoint someone who has no regard for our country's welfare to run our intelligence agencies. I don't want him to ever again appoint someone who has never read a book in their life to run the library of congress. I don't want him to ever again appoint some billionaire with no medical training to run the FDA. I don't want him to ever again appoint some billionaire with no training in agriculture or conservation to run the DoA. I don't want him to ever again appoint some billionaire who has no regard for the welfare of our fisheries to run the DoF. I don't want him to ever again appoint somebody who has never worked a hard day in their life to run the DoL. I don't want him to ever again appoint somebody who has no regard for the environment to run the DoI. I don't want him to ever again appoint some billionaire who has no regard for the Department of Justice to run the DoJ. I don't want him to ever again appoint somebody who has never worked in the justice system to run the DEA. I don't want him to ever again appoint somebody who has never worked in the justice system to run the FBI. I don't want him to ever again appoint some billionaire who has no regard for our welfare to run H&HS. I don't want him to ever again appoint some billionaire who has no regard for our welfare to run HUD. <br><br>Finally, I don't want Trump to ever again call himself president. I just don't. I want to live in a world where you have a chance to succeed. I want to live in a world where no one is left behind. I want to live in a world where everyone has a voice. I want to live in a world where everybody has food, water, shelter, education, and clean air. I want to live in a world where the president doesn't call Wall Mart "Woll-Mart."<br><br>So, if you voted for Trump in 2016, I'm begging you. Please do not do it again. I want you to thrive. I want you to live a long, happy life. It doesn't have to be like this. We can have a president who respects everyone. That's what I want.<br><br>That's it. Thanks for reading.