Election Season 2010
Start voting for the best of the best, not the “lesser of two evils.”
At times it feels like there is no one to vote for. Candidate A ran a corporation accused of fraud; Candidate B worked for a corporation with unscrupulous dealings.
Should I vote for B because A might be worse? This is the choice many Americans are facing this election season. If I don’t vote for the “lesser of two evils,” I could be left with evil Candidate A running the show!
Let’s take a second to consider the result of this thinking. If you vote for the lesser of two evils, even if your chosen candidate wins, you are left with a candidate you don’t like or trust. A candidate who for all you know is as corrupt as the candidate you’re voting against. A candidate that you yourself defined as evil!
If We the People keep voting this way, we will never elect good politicians. We must vote for candidates with the best ideas and plans. The candidates with the most appropriate experience. In short, we must vote for people we actually want to run our government!
If you’re “Republican,” (a.k.a. you have conservative values) then vote for the candidate most likely to keep the government small, the candidate most likely to promote individual freedom. In most cases, the Republican candidate is not for limited government spending and power, and plans to spend public money on a wasteful, harmful project, such as the FCAT, a test that costs Florida schools both millions of dollars and invaluable class time that should be used to better educate Florida’s children. A real conservative advocates limited spending and keeping the government out of people’s live, not expensive and heavy-handed legislation.
If you’re “a Democrat” (a.k.a. you have progressive values) then vote for the candidate most likely to use public money to best benefit the public. Does the candidate have a concrete plan on what s/he is going to do? If the candidate says s/he wants to help people, but offers no specific plans, why should you vote for them? You have no idea what they want to accomplish.
Voting for someone without any clue as to what s/he will actually do once elected is like playing Russian roulette. If a candidate announces no specific, useful plans and uses airtime solely to attack another candidate, there are only two possibilities. One, the candidate is unable to communicate his or her ideas, and is therefore not qualified to hold an important public office. Or two, the candidate has plans that s/he would never talk about, because they are awful. Consider that one of Nancy Pelosi’s top campaign contributors is Northrop Grumman, a military aircraft manufacturer. Many Democratic Congressman claim to be for peace, but they vote for the exact same military spending bills that the Republicans do.
Many people think that voting for a candidate besides the Democrat or the Republican is “throwing your vote away.” In reality, many times there is little to no difference between the Democrat and the Republican. Often the “mainstream” candidates in both parties are paid flunkies for corporations who plan to raid the public coffers as soon as their candidate is in office. Here’s a website that tracks where candidates got there campaign funds. The “lesser of two evils” might be better than candidate you abhor in some minor respects, but why vote for someone paid to rob you?
There are candidates who will vote for peace, who will build or enable the building of solar panels that will provide clean, cheap electricity. There are candidates that will help end poverty at a fraction of the cost of unnecessary prisons. There are candidates who will put money in your hands, and fund companies who will actually create jobs. There are candidates who really care about you.
Vote for them!
If you aren’t sure of a candidate’s intentions, do some research! Read the issues section of their website. Google the office they are running for and see what the other candidates have to say. Think for yourself! So the New York Tribune endorsed so and so. So what? What does the candidate have to say for himself? So CNN said X and Y are the frontrunners and the Best Candidate has no chance? So what? Why vote for someone you don’t really want in office anyway?
In reality, you have only one choice. You can vote for someone honest, someone who genuinely wants to help you and other people. Or you can vote for someone who cares only about themselves, who will perpetuate torture, war crimes, unregulated environmental disasters, poverty, and worse for the sake of money.
The latest line of defense I’ve heard for President Obama and the Democrats’ policies is that the bailout made the government money. Great, now what are they going to spend it on? More bombs?
The choice is simple. You can vote for a candidate you know will help change the world. Or you can waste your vote on the lesser of two evils. The choice is yours.