Why It's Your Duty To Vote Republican Right Now

The recent Ohio Republican Senate Primary election was a study in the effectiveness of hate-based politics. For the past year, there have been conversations about a Republican Civil War brewing and judging by the primary election results, the faction aligned with Trump is winning. The biggest reason why might be because there aren't enough people voting Republican.

In 21 States across America, voters do not need to affiliate themselves with any political party in order to vote in an open primary election, but voter turnout in primaries remains dismally low. Partisan voters assume the other party is the problem or that they are not allowed to have a voice in the other party's primary. That's a mistake.

The real problem today is that moderate, reasonable and thoughtful candidates from any party can't win because they never make it through a primary election. Instead they get overtaken by louder, stupider candidates who eventually end up on the ballot in the national elections. The only way to fix this is for ALL of us to vote in the primaries for BOTH parties for the candidates willing to speak and think for themselves. Especially in those races where the leading candidates are the ones who compromise their own beliefs to appease a proven liar in a desperate attempt to gain his endorsement.