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For 53 years I have resisted becoming involved in politics.  I have to admit to my shame that I did not vote and only just recently actually registered to vote.  I honestly was not motivated.  But in the last 2 years all of that changed.  During this last presidential election something changed inside of me.  I found myself more involved in the political discourse not because I was passionately for a candidate but because I was passionately against a candidate.  I found myself viscerally opposed to the rhetoric and campaign views of our now President.  From the advocating a Muslim ban to the scapegoating of undocumented persons living in the United States. Donald Trump offended my sense of right and wrong as a Catholic.  So I did what many of my fellow citizens did during the election, I took to Facebook and began my social media blitz against Donald Trump.  I argued and I debated, sometimes politely and sometimes with more heat.  I lost friends to the fray and discovered the political opinions of others.  Now as President Donald Trump begins his first 100 days, amid the cloud of suspicion of collusion with a foreign power to influence the election, I have decided to move to a difference soapbox and create a political blog and return Facebook to its original purpose of sharing cute memes and vacation food pictures.  So if you want to read my political ramblings - you will have to look here for them and I hope that whether you agree with me or not, you will at least find things that inspire you to become more politically involved. 

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