Story Time

I wanted to share on how I grew into my love of politics with you all.

Well, I can start off with saying it came at a very early age. I think my first political activism was in the third grade when we had to write persuasive papers. Everyone in my class was writing about how they wanted puppies, and how their parents should quit smoking. Not I. I wrote about how abortions should be illegal, in all sectors.

Now I know what you're thinking, this girl is lying, the third grade? I was informed as a child. I woke up with my mother and watched the news, listened to talk radio in the mornings as she drove me to school.

I tried to understand as much as I could as a young child, but I knew at a very early stage that I swung with the Republican parties. Yes maybe my mom influenced me, but my dad was a democrat. So I saw both sides.

Throughout middle school I was kicked out of my history and government classes because I didn't agree with the teachers because they would try to impose their own beliefs into our lessons. In eighth grade I was kicked out of my government class so many times that he would just send me to the principle's office. Though he called for a student discussion he didn't want to hear the research and the ideas I had because it didn't concur with his. It wasn't fair and it wasn't just.  At that moment I knew it was going to be like that my whole life believing what I believed.

Fast forward through high school to college..... My political beliefs were tested. So many political, social and moral things have happened since being 18 years old. So many professors swearing up and down that Republicans are evil and horrible humans. I began to think, wow am I horrible for believing in God? Am I horrible for believing America is great? Am I evil for thinking life is important?

Those ideas were shot down after I realized how crazy I sounded. Like why would I question myself? Why would I question something that I believed in for so long?

I became more confident in my ideas and morals as my sophomore year rolled around, and now with all the events of this past spring and summer... I think it's safe to say I am a sound individual who loves liberty, freedom and equality. But now I know when to speak and when not to speak on those topics and when to be strong and test the waters I'm in.

With this very ideas, is why I started my blog. An outlet to be free and to be myself. It is important to have a creative outlet and important to be confident in yourself. Being a republican and being sound in that choice is being celebrated with every post to this blog of mine.

-M