American citizens, legal and, in some states, illegal aliens are given the honor of voting for our elected officials.
An honor some people take very lightly and without much thought as to what the candidate has done, or NOT done, in the past.
Rather they base their decision on personality, color of skin, ethnicity, gender or something as simple as: is there a D, I or R behind the name.
Luckily, in the current Presidential race, both candidates have served in office.
Take this simple test, eliminating from your mind any of the possible determining factors stated above and just focus on: “Are you better off now or 4 years ago.”
1 – If you have an IRA, 401-k, individual stocks or mutual funds, when was Net Worth higher?
2 – If you sold any of the above, when did the Government take away more of YOUR earnings by Capital Gains Tax Rate?
3 – Does your grocery budget buy more or less now?
4 – Do you prefer to pay $4 per dozen eggs or $1.25 per dozen? When did they get more expensive?
5 – Do you enjoy paying $4 a gallon for gas or diesel, or did your money buy you more when the per gallon price was $1.75? When did gas prices shoot up?
6 – Is housing more affordable now?
7 – Did you enjoy going out for a burger back when the cost of the burger was reasonable? Or has the mandatory $20 minimum wage hiked that double cheeseburger to the point of thinking twice about stopping?
8 – Does it appall you the Government can mandate what a PRIVATELY-OWNED business has to pay their employees and who they employee, rather than let competition determine what the business will pay and what a worker is willing to accept?
9 – Do you feel safer now or before? Consider street crime, riots, Hamas-backed student takeovers of college campuses and federal buildings, homeless encampments, world war possibilities, another 9-11, and murder and crimes committed by illegal aliens.
10 – Do you feel the offenders in question 9 should be jailed or let free to repeat their unpunished crimes? And, do you feel it is appropriate for a Vice-President to beg for money on Go-Fund-Me to get these perps out of jail?
OK. I could continue on for 20 more, but you get the picture. So let’s move on to making a choice.
How did it feel when one Party decided no one could run against their (meaning the Elites and Moneyed donors) chosen candidate?
And then, after you cast YOUR individual vote, that Candidate is tossed out and replaced with another one whom you did not vote for, rejected in 2020, called the man she works for a Racist Bigot, refused to perform the jobs the Racist Bigot assigned to her (Border Czar,) and has flip-flopped on key issues such as fracking, guns, Socialized healthcare (remember “like your plan, keep your plan?
That would be gone,) getting rid of ICE and de-funding police and border security.
Placing a vote for Biden on a Primary ballot was not voting for the Biden/Harris ticket. There was serious talk at the time of replacing the inept VP with someone who could/would do the assigned jobs, and more importantly, take over running the country when Biden faltered.
Is this “hide-in-the-basement – version 2.0”? Offer up a candidate who will not do “neutrally and unbiased” interviews or debates? Instead give Campaign speeches during official events and reading off a teleprompter what someone else probably wrote?
Think about the well-known phrase: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” And, please, they are the Democrat Party – not the Democrat-IC Party.
Would you rather have a “no brains, cackling idiot” or an “egotistical, sometimes insensitive, bombastic showman”? Ok – That’s a toss-up. But think of it in terms of how this affects their job performance. How do their decisions affect YOUR life?
Is this the best “woman” our gender has to offer? Same thought for Persons-of-Color. If so, how embarrassing.
When you go to the voting machine, or submit a mail-in ballot, think of this phrase “Dance like no one is watching,” because no one is watching or knowing how you vote.
If you have to lie afterwards so your friends and relatives won’t snub and disown you for having a different opinion, so be it. At least you will be voting for what will make your own life better and what will return this Country back to sanity.
R. Rothwell
Winnemucca