Let The Voting Begin

Early voting began here in Texas yesterday and I do hope you get out soon and cast your vote.  Of course if it were up to the Republicans, we wouldn’t have early voting.  They not only would like it to be only one day, but would really rather it be for only an hour.

Low voter turnout is the only way Republicans win.

Of all the countries in the world that allow voting, we have the lowest turnout. I think that is very sad.  Many countries where it is quite dangerous to vote have higher turnouts than we do.

 I also believe in voting for the person of your choice. 

 

 I think straight ticket voting is not good for the country.  Why would you put a political party platform ahead of an individual’s values?  I think that has to do with a lot of where we are today.  A few weeks ago on Facebook, some right-wing nuts put up a quote and attributed it to George Carlin.  The problem was they changed the quote to meet their views. Fortunately they got caught, but if you didn’t see it, here it is. What the wing-nuts did was change “real owners are the big wealthy business interests” to “Government.”  I believe George said it best.  Here is his quote.     

 "The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying ­ lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else." 

 

 Stay tuned for future adventures.