Two more weeks of trash politics
Okay folks, we have only two more weeks of trash politics to get through before Election Day on November 7th. I cannot take anymore of these trashy commercials that only have negative comments about candidates. One political candidate can’t be trusted because… the other is sleeping on the job…another “just doesn’t get it.” So what do these politicians stand for? What can they do for us? Trash each other? Give us a “better deal” or make our lives better?
I remember the Presidential election of 2004 and all you heard was negative T.V. ads. I was hoping the mid-election would be better, but no, the trash and negativity still continues. What ever happened to the “good old days” when a candidate put out ads that said who they are, what they stood for and why they were the best candidate all around? Now both sides – Democrats and Republicans – cannot seem to come up with a good political ad that tells who they are and what they stand for and what they “promise” us they will do.
Every ad tries to sell us on the other’s dirty laundry. I’m totally disgusted. But it won’t stop me from voting in two weeks. Because I believe that every person has the right to vote and express their opinion. Ever since I was able to vote, I have never missed an election. Now I don’t do primaries because I consider myself Independent so I wait until each party sorts out who they want to run and then I make a choice. I really feel it is the Independent voters who really make the right choices because we are not bound by any party rules or regulations to blindly vote for one particular party.
I also take ballot issues very seriously and that’s why I vote. If a ballot costs me money, I want a say in it – either yea or nay. I have my “blue book” in hand and will read all the ballot issues carefully, make a list and mark down my decisions on each one.
Voting to me has been a tradition handed down to me by my grandmother who was part of the suffragette movement nearly eighty plus years ago. I remember her telling me that it was important for me, as a woman to vote, because of all the women who fought hard to give us the right to vote. That’s another reason why I vote.
Two weeks and counting down until all of this nonsense is over, I can hardly wait.
Until later,
Linda
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