How To
Not Get My Vote
I may not look it, but I am a very dangerous person for people running
for public office.
I am a registered voter that actually shows up at every election in my
district and votes. Not just the big
elections like the Presidential elections every four years, and not just the
mid-term elections every two years. No,
I’m talking about every election, including the local ones. And their primaries. And the run-offs if there are any.
But what makes me dangerous is not just that I vote, but that I am a
former card-carrying member of the GOP who has been long jaded and burned-out
by the lies and the games and the fraud and the hypocrisy, and still not only
votes, but votes according to my conscience and to whom I believe would be the
better candidate for me. Not only that,
but I encourage others to do the same.
I am the very kind of person that pollsters hate, because I don’t whore
my vote away playing BS games of “if you vote for candidate X, then that takes
votes away from candidate Y, and therefore candidate Z will win.” Nobody owns my vote. They have to earn it.
I don’t play political party games.
The GOP and the Dems are two sides of the same death-cult that is
killing America every year, and no amount of “vote for my party or the country
will be doomed” will work on me. And if
you’re saying that, then you are part of the problem and part of the reason why
America is dying.
So, yes, I vote. And I vote my
conscience, not how some party cult-leader or overpaid political consultant and
their brain-dead myrmidons want me to vote.
And with the mid-term elections once again in full bloom in Georgia, we
are inundated with raw partisan Pavlovian dog-whistling propaganda from career
politicians and their wannabe replacements.
We are besieged with robocalls and social media propaganda and junk mail
and especially TV commercials. It is a
nasty, filthy parade of lies and half-truths and hypocrisy that is so degrading
that it would make the worst pornography look tame.
So, with that in mind, let me share with you just how I vote and
specifically who does not get my vote.
Because, maybe if you understand how a free-thinking non-partisan voter
like myself votes, that might help you make up your mind when election day
comes for you. Because, let’s get
brutally honest here... if you don’t vote, then you forfeit any moral,
legitimate right to complain how the government handles things.
So here are some of the things that will disqualify you in this voter’s
eyes...
“Conservative” – If this is
your lead descriptive word, then you’ve already lost my vote.
“Conservative” is so overused in American politics that you had might as
well start describing yourself as an “Oxygen-breather”. It is that bad.
Tell me, what kind of “conservative” are you? Because there are so, so many. Are you the “tea party” version? The old school “Ronald Reagan” version? Maybe a “neo-conservative” from the Bush
Junior era? Are you the goose-stepping nationalistic
“alt-wrong” version? Are you the “Never
Trump” kind or the one that sold your soul to the con man with the fake Jersey
tan?
We’re still fighting wars started by conservatives running both the White
House and the Congress. Our debt,
apparently only a concern when someone other than a GOP is in the White House,
is higher now than ever before. We have
stores going bankrupt and shutting down.
We have businesses that are exporting jobs faster than before the last
election.
I remember when “conservative” actually meant something. Now it is nothing more than a dog-whistle tag.
“Christian” – Again, if you
have this in your first descriptive terms, you’ve lost my vote.
The only people for whom this matters are Christian nationalists and
other theocrats, and they are the enemies of everything that I and other
freedom-lovers stand for. If you’re
pandering to them, then you will never get my support. Ever.
And you can go right to hell and take your theocratic and nationalistic
friends with you.
If you’re a real Christian, then you wouldn’t be making a big production
of it and using it as a dog-whistle tag.
Even the teacher they claim to worship and give praise to said that this
was wrong. Unfortunately there are way
too many so-called “Christians” in America that are more like pharisees than
followers of Jesus... and they vote.
“End Illegal Immigration” – End
it? Right. Is that before or after Trump has his Great
Wall of Ego finished?
This is all part of being a so-called “immigration tough-guy” in
politics. Just like the chickenhawks
when it comes to world affairs, these so-called “immigration tough-guys” want
us to believe that they are “so serious” when it comes to the “menace” of
illegal immigrants that they’d be willing to do the job themselves.
So some goober running for governor here in Georgia has his “deportation
bus” and he’s going out on tour like he would supposedly round up all the
“illegals” himself and personally drive them to the US-Mexico border. And a gun-nut who is also running for governor
is now touting that he has his pick-up truck decked out with an extra-large
trailer just so he could supposedly do the same thing.
Right. Like they’d actually do
that!
Tell you what, Goober and Barney Fife, if you’re so gung-ho about it, why
don’t you start by telling all of your friends in the construction industry and
the farming industry that you’re going to go after their cheap labor? I’m sure your supporters wouldn’t mind
knowing that the price of food and housing will skyrocket if it means getting
rid of all of those damned “ill-e-gulls”.
Hell, don’t wait for the election!
Just let them know that you’re going to be rolling up at all of the
day-labor spots and picking everyone up that doesn’t have a green card. Just ship ‘em out and let some other country
sort out the mistakes. Go ahead and be
“pro-active” about it! That would show
“leadership”.
You see, just like all these other “tough guys”, the “immigration tough
guy” is really just a gutless coward looking to hide his insecurities. They can’t really solve the problem, and they
know it, but they want to pretend they can do something.
And they also lose my vote.
Then there’s my favorite vote-killer… “Family-Values”! Of course, it doesn’t help that the people in
the past that used that overused dog-whistle phrase ended up being predators,
molesters, and hypocrites.
I’ll make it clear: if you cannot hold Donald Trump to the same standards
that you held Bill Clinton to twenty-five years ago, then you have no business
whatsoever even talking about the word “values”, because you have none.
There is one more word that is a vote-killer for me, but it’s not one
that the candidates like to tout in their propaganda. That word is “incumbent”. It doesn’t matter how good of a job you’re
doing; as a matter of principle, if you’re already in office, then you’ve been
there too long. And if you’re running unopposed,
then I’ll write my own name in, just so my opposition is official. Because even a write-in holds more weight
than a non-vote ever will.
Oh, and, by the way, I have to do that on local and state ballots far
more times than I should ever have to.
This is how I vote, people. I want
new blood in governments large and small, but I also want people in office that
do their jobs and do so for everyone, not just for an ever-narrowing band of
extremists, and to do right by me as a freedom-loving individual. Sure, it takes a little longer for me to get
my votes completed, but at least they count.
That’s what makes me politically dangerous.
Every vote counts in America. But
you have to actually vote for it to count.
Registering to vote means nothing.
Not voting means nothing. If you
don’t vote, then the extremists and the overpaid political consultants have
won. If you are not a fan of the way
things are in politics, the only way things will change is if you vote and vote
your conscience.
My vote counts. What’s your excuse?
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