I'm not politically inclined, in that I don't listen to or watch everything that happens on politics. I hear about some things, but I don't make it my business to be up front and center for every controversy or not, when it comes to what is going on with the candidates. I don't have fancy words or provocative thoughts or debatable rhetoric.
I do keep myself aware of what is going on and what I hear, some good, some not so good, leaves me with lots of thoughts to mull over. The one thing that I have heard from a lot of people, and media reports, is that what is going on with our country today leaves a lot of people dissatisfied. Many people are unhappy. Some more than others. The one thing a lot of people want is change. Yes, change, the old word that has become the new word, seemingly because it's become one of the candidate's mantra.
Everyone has a reason why we (in general as a people) should not vote for one candidate or the other; or if we do, they (the politically savvy citizens and the media diehards) instantly know why we are going to cast our vote for that person. It is amazing to me that anyone but the individual who will cast the vote themselves should know why they are voting for a person. How would you know who I'm going to vote for, or why, unless I told you?
Why do people jump to conclusions? Is it out of fear? Is it because they see the possibility of what could be? Are we, the American people, so caught up in ourselves and the past that we can't see beyond that? We can't see beyond the usual assumptions and realise the expectations?
What exactly do we want for our country, for ourselves? Don't we all want to be able to put food on our dinner table, have a home to live in, be able to pay our bills and have our mini or annual vacation time? Don't we all want to be able to continue to have free enterprise, entrepreneurship and being able to live without fear?
There are so many people losing their livelihood, homes, health, dreams. It doesn't matter who created the loss or debt or whatever for themselves to be in the spot they are in. And no, they shouldn't expect someone else to fix their problems for them. But when our people lose hope, we lose every chance our country will have of surviving. Laugh if you must about ideals & dreams, but it is what makes our country what it is! That and a healthy does of realism!
If I decided to vote for the woman, is it because I'm a woman and it's about time a woman gets in to that White House? If I decided to vote for that black man, is it because I am black and ya'll know we blacks will vote for him just because he is? Or what happens if I vote for the younger, white guy? What would my reasoning be? You wouldn't know would you?
People are allowed to make decisions for themselves, as they should be. But they shouldn't feel that they are going to make the wrong choice, voting for whomever they want, just because the political climate is second guessing their choice!
If they decide to vote for the black man, why should it be they are doing it out of guilt? What exactly do they have to be guilty about? Wouldn't it be you (in general as a people) who keep singing the same song be the ones hanging on to that guilt because seemingly, the only reason why white folks do anything when it comes to blacks, and it happens to be anything in favor for or good for blacks, it's because they are feeling guilty about the past?! So is it that these whites have no intelligence to make decisions, they can't think for themselves then?
If it is for the woman, she's too aggressive and loud and thinks she knows everything, right?! She was married to the man that everybody (supposedly) loves, and he will be the one making the decisions, she couldn't possibly know how to make decisions without the help of a man, right?!
Or if it's the younger white guy, he's too good looking with his expensive haircut and indeciveness and inexperience, right? Plus is wife was ill with cancer and his kid died - the pity card right?!
Heck, none of the three or experienced enough right? How does anyone get experience? Wouldn't that be by being put in a given situation to experience whatever is 'thrown' at you, and building a reputation in learning how to handle whatever the job is to be done?
Wait, wasn't that how every other President learned to do the job they did during their reign? Were they all perfect in the decisions they made? Who put them there?
Exactly!