What's happening in America right now is scary and I've been trying to find the right words to do justice to what I've been feeling. In 2011 I deployed to Iraq and spent 6 months in a combat zone. I had to worry every day if I was going to have a bomb dropped on my head as we took mortars or if the pile of trash on the side of the road was going to send shrapnel through my legs and leave me disabled or worse.

Fear is a great motivator. It activates our fight or flight response and gets people to act in ways they wouldn't normally act. Someone who would normally sit on the sidelines and just watch the world change around them would be more apt to go out and vote for someone if they were afraid of something and that person offered a solution to that fear.