Undecided…
J. D. Pendry
I know who I am voting for. Do you?
I hope not to offend anyone. Well, maybe I do. Sometimes you need to hit someone in the forehead with a piece of dimension lumber before you get their attention. I never did appreciate it when people appeared in front of the cameras a few days after they called America’s Warriors Nazis and said, gee, if anyone was offended by what I said I apologize. If you said it during a hissy fit of anger, you meant it. You believed it. You should have spine enough to stand up for it. Words matter. What comes out of a politician’s mouth is not always the best reflection of who he is except for those angry tongue slips or the times when he believed no one was listening. It is those times and those words that opens the window to their character and bares their souls.
As we near America’s day of reckoning (A.K.A. Election Day), which is only a few days away, I am asked to believe that there are great numbers you out there who do not know who you will vote for. The great undecided mass, I am told and asked to accept, will choose the leader of the free world based on debate performances or whatever is offered up to them in the political ads during the latter days of the current edition of our perpetual political campaigns. If this is true, and I have never accepted that it is, then I have to tell you that the great undecided mass is too stupid to vote. Sorry, that is just the way I see it. At this stage, if you have not studied each candidate for yourself and you are relying on political ads, media spin doctors and debates to help you choose, you are stupid. You are also dangerous. It is you who stands to bring down the world’s last best hope by putting the wrong person in charge of it. You cannot blame it on the politician you choose because it will be you that made the choice.
Do not believe the polls that we are forced fed every day. Depending on who is leading in the multitude of them, one side or the other will be sure to tell you they do not matter. That is not what you need to understand about polls. Pollsters are paid by people with agendas. Be especially wary of the ones that are paid for by media organizations. Those I trust the least of all. Polls are used as a political tool. They are used to convince you to either vote for someone or to convince you that your candidate has already lost so there is no point in you wasting your time voting. Polls are just another of those dangerous games played in our country to influence the people who are otherwise too stupid to vote. Keep in mind that the most accurate pollsters work for the political organizations. You do not hear the results of their internal polls.
The other thing out there to be wary of are the neurotics. Unfortunately, the most dangerous of those neurotics have national and local audiences that listen to them daily. Often, in that audience, are people hoping to be told what to do. The neurotics will tell you that candidate A will destroy our country as we know it. Then he will sigh and lament how he just cannot bring himself to vote for candidate B. Even though A or B will be the president on January 20, 2009, Mr. Neurotic says he will either just stay home or vote for C, D, or E. He considers himself pure in his political persuasion. A political purity he cannot compromise no matter the outcome for the rest of us. Preservation of his self-proclaimed political virtue, in his mind, is more important than preserving America. Hardly a selfless view is it? Let me say this. God gave us one perfect man to lead us. We promptly flayed him and nailed him up to a tree. Since then, he has provided us with imperfect humans from which to choose a leader and a reminder that we have, at least for now, the freedom to either choose one or to sit on the sidelines and carp about not getting the perfect one - again.
Evaluate your choice as you please. But, take a serious look. Take a hard look at the lives of the candidates. Their political and ideological alliances will tell you who they are. Vote for the one you like. For our great American economy we have choices. We can have a free market system with laws and standards to protect us from politicians and crooks. We can have socialism that makes us and our economy dependent on Washington’s nincompoops. Or, we can have the system that will not work and has recently demonstrated that to us. It is the hybrid one that layers socialist principles onto a free market. Vote for the candidate that will provide the system that you like. Just be prepared to accept the consequences that come with your choice.
It matters less to me who someone votes for than it does that the choice made is an informed one. It is difficult to cut through all of the crap. I realize that, but America is worth the effort. I have shut down the talk radio, most news and I switch channels when the latest greatest political ad pops up. I suggest you may want to do the same. Spend some time studying the candidates for yourself. You will not have to invest much time to learn what you need to know. If you are not willing to do that then do America a favor and stay home on November 4.
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