Everyone knows I have a thing for chimps, elephants, and really all animals. I support the ASPCA, Toys for Tots, Habitat for Humanity, and other charitable organizations. I am a 40 year vegetarian, a Christian, a psychologist, and I love my dogs. I have a few beliefs that might be considered conservative, but mostly I lean liberal. I have long supported our troops but often criticized the military, war, and the VA. I have visited most of the United States major cities and gorgeous landscape.
It could be easy to pick and choose political candidates based on my values and experiences. Geez…we even have a psychologist running for the U.S. congress but I wouldn’t vote for him if he were running for the sewer department. I am leaning towards female candidates these days yet we have a female in the senate who has betrayed our state and this country far too many times.
With this country so polarized, so angry, so blinded by lies and corruption, there might be a tendency to pick an independent, someone not tied to a party or radically different policies. The green party, the tea party, etc. etc.
But, folks…we are a critical turning point in our history. This might be the most profoundly important election since Lincoln was re-elected in 1864. We are being held hostage by a corrupt president and his corrupt republican congress. Racism encouraged, children separated from parents, immigrants treated as criminals simply because they are not lily white. The climate is endangered to the benefit of corporate advantage and wealthy contributors. The president buddies up with dictators, hoping to be one while they simply laugh at and use him.
This is not the time to vote for some independent candidate who has no chance of winning…simply to feel good about yourselves. No chance of winning or passing legislation on some pie-in-the-sky promise. We cannot waste votes for the Save the Fruit Fly party, the Free College for All party, or I Love Avocados party.
We must vote for the Democrats. Period. If we do not take control of the Senate AND the House, we possibly headed for the end of democracy as we have known it. Short of an aneurism or heart attack brought on by too many cheeseburgers, this tyrant could be around another 6 years…that is if he and his amoral congress don’t eliminate the term limits.
We must vote Democratic. Period. If we can somehow turn this country around and restore reason, compassion, and safety, maybe then you can save the fruit fly. For now…
We must vote Democratic. Everyone…everyone with a brain, a heart, and a soul.
