For all my Republican Family and Friends: Just letting you know that it's ok to vote and think and feel the way you do. It doesn't change me&you one bit. It is hard for me to understand why you choose this line of reasoning sometimes, but I respect your right to do so. Your philosophy, on paper at least, is different than mine. At least it seems that way on paper, but funny when we drink and hang out we usually agree on just about most everything.
I'm voting Democrat this year, and that's ok, too. I like our President. I will support him, but I will not demonize your side needlessly. This whole political circus has become less Ringling Bros vs Barnum&Bailey and more Panem et Circenses, the bread and circus "show" put on by the Roman elite to satisfy and pacify the masses mindless lust for cheap entertainment of blood sport.
How many great ideas and real chances to fix some of the problems and concerns that we all share are lost in the smoke of all that hot air and flaming rhetoric? It's hard to balance a budget when the kitchen is on fire and everyone keeps on throwing more hot grease at each other, none of which sticks but all of it burns.
No, I woke up the other day immune from politics.
My sleep schedule is weird now I see the tv news people all different...they all look like men wearing stage makeup.
Vote your with your own inner voice, with love in your heart, and pride in our great country. No matter who wins the current election, we will both prosper and persevere, thru good times and bad, together as we always have for over two and a third centuries.
This is what America and Family means.
Lovin' You!

UPDATE: Malala is receiving treatment in the UK at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, with a favorable chance for survival...except that their have been security threats made against her even as she clings to life by the Taliban which has threatened to attempt to kill her again if she recovers. No doubt, there are  Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) operatives, both active and sleeper, in the UK as well as lone individuals who share their savage and murderous goals. Security is tight, and Scotland Yard is looking into the backgrounds of many attempted visitors claiming to be family members.

All my heroes are dead or fictional... except for this young girl, who is fighting for her life right now, ALL BECAUSE SHE STOOD UP FOR HER RIGHTS.
Malala Yousufzai, a 14 year old Pakistani girl, was shot in the head by the Taliban in an an attempt to assassinate her as she rode the bus to school .Two other girls were also shot.