I need to tell you something about me...
I was raised a conservative in Minneapolis and always voted Republican even when I didn't know much about the candidate.
In 2015, for the first time, I considered voting for a Democrat - Hillary Clinton. Why? Because my parents were dead and all of my friends in Minneapolis were liberals and I considered them my family. Many of them I had known for 20 plus years.
Most of the women told me that if I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton I was a traitor to my gender.
Most of the women told me that if I did not vote for Hillary Clinton that I was a racist and a misogynist and homophobe and downright evil.
When I asked them why I should vote for Hillary, they didn't know. They just liked her white pantsuits and they wanted a liberal woman for President.
So, for the first time in my life, I sat down and reviewed the platforms and history of every single candidate on both sides of the aisle. It took me 6 months. I debated with people on Twitter. I studied history and how we got to the point that we are at today.
In the beginning, I had no intention of voting for Donald Trump.
By the end of my 6 months of analysis, I believed wholeheartedly that he was put here by God to save our country. My research showed that he was the only one who was remotely qualified to dig us out of the hole that we dug for ourselves. I still believe that.
Did I tell anyone that I planned to vote for him? No, because I didn't want to be humiliated and ostracized by my friends.
They found out anyway and attacked me - relentlessly and viciously.
One night at dinner, with 15 of my closest friends, two weeks before the election, one woman stood up in the busy restaurant, pointed fingers at me and laughingly yelled: "Hey Peggy, why don't you tell everybody here why you're voting for Trump. We thought you were smarter than that." I actually started crying, and I don't cry.
A few nights later, a woman I called my closest friend and mentor told me that she wanted America to be a socialist country and Obama was her hero. I had no idea she felt that way. I was mortified. Another “mentor” of mine told me that if I voted for Trump - I was no better than a NAZI sending Jews off to the death camps.
I had a few friends who were conservative, but they were afraid to speak up and said nothing.
When Trump won, did they apologize? No. When Trump proved to be an excellent President who helped America thrive, in spite of all the attacks against him, did they admit they were wrong? No, they doubled down and their hatred multiplied. It was as if they were possessed.
This is one of the reasons I left Minneapolis. It's not just because they let the Communists burn down my city, sloth is rampant and crime is out of control.
It's because the people that I believed were my family and friends turned against me when I needed them the most. They would rather our country go down than admit they were wrong.
Now they say that only if Trump were d*** - we could go back to the way we were. Sorry, I don't want to go back to the way we were. IT WAS ALL FAKE.
It really is true that God is the only one we can truly count on. There is NO other higher power.
GOD BLESS AMERICA