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.
