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> I know that you are not happy with Trump and to be truthful, neither am I.

My first vote - I was barely old enough - was for Eisenhower.
Until yesterday, that was the only time I had pulled a lever for a republican presidential candidate.
PBS ran a segment last week that tipped my thinking.
It covered an area in southwest Virginia where once a year, people line up days in advance to wait for a charity group of MD's, DDS' and other health care people.
That's their health care, period.
The DDS's pull hundreds of rotten teeth.
This is not an isolated group of people.
There are groups like them all over the US.
My party, the party of FDR, JFK, Ted Kennedy or Bernie Sanders would have done something about this.
Instead, my party is focusing on whether someone can pee with someone else or whether we can endanger a GI's life by forcing him to serve next to a woman. We worry more about whether a woman in Afghanistan can go to school than we do about our own citizens's health care.

The academic establishment, once a beacon of liberal thought and free expression, has also lost its way.
Speech is no longer free.
People lose their jobs for saying obvious truths.
Costs are spiralling and they have grief counsellors and diversity enforcers on the payroll.

So last week, after seeing that segment and hearing all the nonsense coming out of my party, I decided to bite my tongue and pulled the lever for Trump.

My prayer is that my party gets the message the country sent last night and I never have to pull that lever again.