It's an election year, and as election day is coming, I am growing sick and tried of it. I wish it was over already. I hate seeing the ads on television bashing each campaign. I cannot turn on the radio or television without seeing one. Why can't they just run campaigns without all the candidate bashing? Tell us what you are "planning" to do for us, not what the other candidate has done in the past. I guarantee that they are people that don't vote for a certain candidate because of what another candidate has said.
I hate all the wasteful propaganda that litter our mailboxes and yards. This to me is a waste. When I received an ad through the mail, you know what I do. I get rid of it. I am tried of all this junk mail.
Millions of dollars wasted to get elected into office. Think of what could be done with that money instead of the ads. They could help the hungry or assist people who have been hit hard by the economy that some helped get this way. I can see better uses for this money than buying a thirty second or less spot on television that costs millions to produce.
This doesn't turn me off for voting. I am grateful that I get the right to vote. Many women, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Burns, Alice Paul, and many more, fought for my right to vote, and if I had been born back before 1920, I wouldn't have had that. So I exercise my right to vote. I am going to vote based on my own research. I do not associate with any particular party. I vote with my heart. This may be silly of me, but I see what they are promising, and if they are an incumbent, I look at their record and what they have accomplished, that's how I decide who I am voting for. I think parties should be scrapped. I believe George Washington, even didn't believe in political parties.
Peaceful and Happy Thoughts,
--Rue.
