Apathy To The Nth Degree
No matter how much the candidates try to whip up this primary, I find that I have little or no interest in participating. It is between three figures, all historic in their own right. On the liberal Republican side, we have a Vietnam War POW who has spent a sizable portion of his life in politics. If elected, he will be the oldest elected President. Historic, I would say.
The other two candidates are liberal liberals and the potential history making of electing each of them is obvious. One is a woman and a former 1st lady and the other is a black American. I cannot bring myself to say African American unless you want to call all white folk European Americans. Electing either of them would be historic from the perspective that the original Constitution would not have allowed Hillary to run for office and would have possibly only counted Barack as only 3/5 of a person. We have come a long way from the vision of our Founding Fathers and put provisions in our treasured governmental foundation to allow for these changes.
Having said all of that, I am unenthusiastic about the entire election process. We had an Obama supporter come to our house this weekend and ask for our support. My wife explained that we had not chosen who we would vote for yet and that we were Republicans. The Obama supporter asked if we had any questions concerning his candidate and my wife answered, “No. None of the three are worth voting for.“ The supporter asked why my wife thought that way and she said, “You don’t have enough time for me to explain all of the reasons.”
For those who view Conservatism as a way of life, this election is about which evil to choose. If enough new social programs get put in to grow government to stratospheric proportions, if taxes get raised enough to redistribute the wealth from those who have to those who won’t, if the medical system goes from world class to third world and the military gets put under to the United Nations control, it will do one of three things. The first option is that we will finally become the socialist country that the Soviet Union envisioned. The second option is that we will be pissed enough to vote the bastards out but the damage will be done. The third is that the camel’s back will finally break and we will hear the Declaration of Independence become the cry of the land.
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The other two candidates are liberal liberals and the potential history making of electing each of them is obvious. One is a woman and a former 1st lady and the other is a black American. I cannot bring myself to say African American unless you want to call all white folk European Americans. Electing either of them would be historic from the perspective that the original Constitution would not have allowed Hillary to run for office and would have possibly only counted Barack as only 3/5 of a person. We have come a long way from the vision of our Founding Fathers and put provisions in our treasured governmental foundation to allow for these changes.
Having said all of that, I am unenthusiastic about the entire election process. We had an Obama supporter come to our house this weekend and ask for our support. My wife explained that we had not chosen who we would vote for yet and that we were Republicans. The Obama supporter asked if we had any questions concerning his candidate and my wife answered, “No. None of the three are worth voting for.“ The supporter asked why my wife thought that way and she said, “You don’t have enough time for me to explain all of the reasons.”
For those who view Conservatism as a way of life, this election is about which evil to choose. If enough new social programs get put in to grow government to stratospheric proportions, if taxes get raised enough to redistribute the wealth from those who have to those who won’t, if the medical system goes from world class to third world and the military gets put under to the United Nations control, it will do one of three things. The first option is that we will finally become the socialist country that the Soviet Union envisioned. The second option is that we will be pissed enough to vote the bastards out but the damage will be done. The third is that the camel’s back will finally break and we will hear the Declaration of Independence become the cry of the land.
Icool
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