Millennials Up For Grabs?

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

I'm 26. My brother is 18 and will be voting for the first time in 2016 (he could vote this year too but I'm not sure he will since he's not particularly interested in politics or current events).

I have voted for a few Republicans for statewide and local office (mainly people like Kay Bailey Hutchison and pre-2012 David Dewhurst), but do not see myself voting for any of the potential Republican presidential candidates in 2016. And I say that as someone who strongly dislikes Hillary Clinton and would probably just vote for a third-party candidate before I voted for her.

I was just a wee lad when Saint Ronald Wilson Reagan of Sacramento, Defender of Capitalist Freedom and Eternal Spiritual Leader of the Republic, left office and muddled into an Alzheimer's induced fog. My only substantive experience with what happens when Republicans have full run of the place is the long national nightmare that ensued from 2001 to 2009 - complete with multiple foreign wars, inappropriate executive branch conduct and the sort of nasty, lowest-common-denominator rhetoric on things like abortion and gay marriage that make people avoid talking about politics altogether.

So it will take a lot for me to vote for a Republican for president. I can't think of G-O-P without thinking of I-R-A-Q.

My brother, by contrast, wasn't really old enough to remember most of that.