The same voters see nothing wrong with having to produce
two forms of I.D. in order to receive a 10 percent military discount in a chain
hardware store but become outraged when proposals are made for voters to show
I.D., to prove that they are who they say they are.
A frequent voting qualifier is, “he/she does not have
enough experience.” Is the lack of perceived experience not knowing how to
manipulate statistics, deceive the public, how to represent the interests of moneyed
donors, corporations, unions, and banks who bring in the bulk of campaign
donations? Must this magical experience be to know who the power brokers are in
each party and cow-tow to their interests, desires, and platforms? Does this seasoned
experience involve knowing who the powerful lobbyists are, what pork to accept
and introduce in bills that would benefit their state, the country be damned,
at a time when the nation is broke and can ill-afford to borrow more money from
China in order to spend beyond our means?
Perhaps this experience means knowing how to better represent the
interests of the United Nations and promote their agenda?
Do voters consider desirable the candidate’s ability to
say all the right things but do exactly the opposite once in office? Are they
desirable because they are handsome/beautiful, young, well-dressed, and
articulate, have a nice family, are photogenic, and have served in the
military?
Are associations with undesirable characters who do not
wish the best for our country even an issue with voters? Apparently not, voters’
memories are short; they repeat the same mistakes because they do not know
their own country’s history well.
Talk is quite cheap but when it counts, in the voting
booth and political discourse, voters tend to be ill-informed, ignorant, and
absent-minded. They use the most insane
reasons to vote for the wrong person, time after time, after time.
Millions stay home thinking that their vote does not
count anyway and the crooks and liars will be voted into office again.
Electronic fraud makes it that much easier to prove them right. Other millions
have never exercised their right to vote although women’s suffrage was hardly
won 93 years ago. These are just numbers to some people. Why worry about it
when there is baseball, basketball, football, and other reality shows and distractions
on TV?
No candidate wants to be seen as a heartless human being
so they promise everything under the sun to every constituent group, careful
not to alienate one by promising too much to another. It is ultimately a
carefully orchestrated dance of meaningless but articulate and artfully chosen speeches,
delivered with utmost confidence, constant hand-shaking, attending fund raisers
with all the right power brokers, photo ops, and baby kissing to the tune of
millions or billions of dollars, depending on the office sought. A candidate
who would try to run his/her campaign from a central location like President
McKinley’s front porch campaign would be laughed out of the room.
Candidates are vetted by various groups and individuals,
and the endorsement criteria are sometimes strange. Take for instance Mark Sanford,
the former Governor of South Carolina who disgraced himself by having a very painful
and tragic public affair. He resigned his post but he is now campaigning for U.S.
Congress, First Congressional District, running against Elizabeth Colbert Busch,
who is not shy about using her famous liberal brother’s name, Steven Colbert.
Although The National Republican Congressional Committee has pulled its backing,
Sanford has garnered support from Larry Flynt, the king of porn, for the most perplexing
reason. “I support him not for his character, but for exposing the [sexual]
hypocrisy of traditional values. The liar has exposed the greater lie.”
When the Immigration Reform passes, 11 million more
voters, educated into the fine points of citizenship by organizations such as
Acorn, will vote to bring here the third world nations they’ve escaped because
they truly believe that ever bigger government is the source of their prosperity
and wellbeing.
There are also the perennial welfare recipients who vote
for a living, early and repeatedly, coached by community organizers and college
students eager to bring about the romanticized utopian communism their college
professors described in which “social justice” reigns supreme. We must also not
forget those who are mentally incompetent to vote but always vote Democrat and
those who cast their Democrat vote from the cemetery.
The price tag of any candidate’s campaign and our casual and
uninformed indifference to the corrupt political process is the price tag of our
enslavement to the wishes of a small minority who rule the country in
perpetuity and determine how our lives must be run, our health delivered, what
homes we build, how much we pay for gas, how we start and run a business, how
much taxes we pay, what education our
children receive, what we eat and drink, how long we live to replenish the
spending coffers of the ruling elite, what cars we drive, where we travel, and
our freedom in general.
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