Things That Just Piss Me Off

The more I get involved in political discussions on the web, the more I realize that the things that people complain about are not all the fault of the politicians.

The fault lies with people. Especially people who follow their party line no matter what. This is for republicans and democrats both.

So many people have fallen into the trap of it’s us against them so much that even when they really do not agree with something their party ios doing, they support it anyway.

People say, “I am a republican”, or “I am a democrat”, and then treat it like a game where they are on a team and want to win no matter what.

The big loser in that game is this country. People need to start thinking for themselves about each and every issue. People need to evaluate candidates based on how that candidate stacks up against others regardless of which party they declare themselves a member of.

Neither party is always right or always wrong, yet any political discussion will show you that there are people who comment in support of their party no matter what the topic is.

You really need to ask yourself if you are doing this. You need to ask yourself if you really personally agree with everything your party representatives are doing and saying.

Because if you are agreeing with your party 100% of the time, then you are not a free-thinking individual. You are a party robot. The politicians love their party robots. They know these people will support them because they are on the same “team” in the political “game”.

It shouldn’t be a game. There are serious matters being decided every day. Neither party has all the answers and to believe that one party or the other does have all the answers is just naive.

The media makes it worse. By calling everything a “race” for office, people begin to think of it as a game or a competition and they want to be on the winning side.

Take the election where Ross Perot ran for office. It doesn’t matter whether or not you liked Ross Perot, but the media told everyone constantly that he had no chance to win.

Many people I have asked about that election told me, “I would have voted for perot but I didn’t think he had a chance and I didn’t want to waste my vote.”

That has got to be the worst reason in the world not to vote for someone. You should vote for who you think will serve this country the best, period. Your vote is a statement as to who you think will do the best job representing you in office.

If you make that statement, your vote is not wasted. You have done your patriotic duty by voting and by voting what you truly believe rather than just wanting to be on the winning side or just wanting the candidate from your “team” top win.

It’s not a game. Each time an election is held, you are given a chance to state your individual opinion. If you vote by party line all the time just to make sure your “team” wins, then thats when you are wasting your vote and wasting the opportunity to state your honest opinion.

It doesn’t matter if the person you think would do the best job has a “chance” of winning or not. It matters that you vote your honest opinion.

Don’t believe the media when they tell you someone does not have a chance. They don’t know who does or who does not have a chance.

They gave huckabee no chance of winning in Iowa, yet he might win now. They gave obama no chance, now hillary is fighting for her life in iowa. They gave ross perot no chance yet he did get 20% of the popular vote even with the media doing their best to convince everyone not to vote for him because he had no chance.

Polls can be swayed to the right or to the left according to how they ask the questions. The media can influence an election by making the poll numbers seem to favor a particular candidate because they know people want to be on the winning side and don’t want to “waste” their vote on someone who doesn’t have a chance.

Other people who pay for polls to be done can also influence elections this way. So if you are looking at polls and they have anything at all to do with how you might vote, you are falling into the trap of letting others influence your vote.

The bottom line is that whether you are a republican or a democrat, you need to think for yourself and quit worrying that you might not be on the winning side. If everyone did that instead of taking one side or the other all the time no matter what, we might actually get some decent people elected.

Quit drinking the Kool-Aid no matter which “team” is serving it.