I am seeing a recurring theme regarding politics. Online and in person and it’s ridiculous.
“I can’t vote for a Republican.”
“I can’t vote for a Democrat.”
To quote the late comedienne Joan Rivers, OH GROW UP.
You know what? You can’t be limited. You have to be willing to consider bipartisan support and judicial races as one example can be ugly, but at the end of the day you look at whether or not they keep politics out of their courtroom. It’s not about necessarily a knee-jerk reaction or the party gods will bar you entry to political Valhalla.
Both major political parties in this country are extremely flawed at this point in time. The problem is both parties don’t necessarily have the best candidates at any one given point in time.
And further and to the point, if we don’t learn to start to reach across the aisle once again from both sides and meet in the middle, it’s going to be decades more of the current BS we are experiencing.
Oh some of the locals don’t like me having that opinion. Apparently bloggers are still supposed to be seen and not heard? Have you met me? Or read what I write?
The past few years have been a resounding chorus on a loop of whomever gets all of the toys wins. It’s not working.
It’s bad enough that apathy rules most of the day.
Not all Republicans are bad and not all Democrats are bad. We see that here in Chester County.
Look at your candidates as people first.
What do they do?
What have they done?
When asked why they want to earn your vote is it drivel, a demand, or a forthright response?
No one is too busy to vote. It is the greatest demonstration of expressing yourself and your rights as an American.
But that doesn’t mean being a sheeple. It means putting on your grown up hat and thinking for yourself .
Don’t vote as you are told or expected. Do your own goddamn research. People have lost their intellectual curiosity for crowdsourcing.
Grow up and wake up. It’s too important.
And politicians who contact me and I am supposed to be impressed? That all depends on who you are and if you have earned my respect.
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