Voting for Spirituality

This is not a blog telling you who to vote for. That is up to you to decide. This blog is about being mindful on who you vote for can impact your spirituality and practice.
There are/have in the past been candidates who have shunned religions or specific religious groups, such as Muslims and their practice. The idea that anyone who is in a leadership role that could be prejudice against one spiritual group, it isn't a far reach to think they could impact other groups such as pagans since they are not part of the mainstream religions.
Those who are pagan, Hindi, Buddhist, or of a non-specific denomination of a non-abrahamic religion could and have been affected by prejudice and fear in the past. We only have to go back a few hundred years in America to see how witches or perceived witches were treated because of bigotry and fear. Being mindful of who you are voting for and their beliefs and how that could affect you is something people don't always put a big focus on. I mean, we live in America (most of us), and the constitution says freedom of religion. We have seen this repeatedly been ignored in history and there have been more then a few politicians in our history who tried to abolish it as well.
This is a topic that is incredibly sensitive and should be digested for a bit to really let these concepts sink in. But for many of us voting is and will be happening Tomorrow. It is easy to vote based on superficial reasons, but when you stop and think about how it can personally affect you, you may be surprised on your perspective possibly changing.
Take time this week to really think about how politics and religion/spirituality has affected you and how it could change in the future.