Who is
one to believe in these troubled times? Who may be worthy of our support, our
vote?
If you
aren’t very well informed, dislike the political arena, get upset that we all
can’t agree on everything, yet get even more upset when your ‘soaps’ or sports
are interrupted by the crucial everyday workings of democracy being reported, I
ask you to consider this: the scoundrel factor.
Simply
put, it is hypocrisy that is the key here. The litmus test. If you will engage
in or encourage/aid/abet behavior you profess to find appalling, damaging or
evil to further your own gain, you
are a scoundrel of the highest order. Not worthy of anything other than our
deepest scorn- and possible incarceration- let alone election to the highest
office in the land.
For
example, in the 2000 and 2004 elections, Democratic operatives roamed the
streets of places such as Milwaukee and Madison Wisconsin (among the most
closely contested of states), St. Louis,
Missouri and various other cities offering free
cigarettes to those ‘willing’ to be bussed down to the polling booth(s) and
vote for their candidates. This is
simply a matter of record. This from the
people who detest smoking. The same folks who’ve made billions off of ‘Big Tobacco’. The same
folks whose anti-tobacco lawyer friends helped keep them in office.
Shameless.
Did
Republicans, those supposed friends of ‘Big Tobacco’, have people on those- or
other- streets offering cigarettes to would-be voters? Or passing out
Barbara Streisand concert tickets or free copies of Al Franken’s brilliantly
titled tome, “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot” to bribe people into voting for
their candidates? No. And exposure to
either of these, while certainly unpleasant and traumatic, probably won’t take
years off of your life.
Yet, this second-hand voting could be deadly.
To our
republic.
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