Ah, the infamous battle between Democrats and Republicans. Are you sick of it yet? I know I certainly am. Especially when my self asserted Republican friends inaccurately introduce me as their Democratic friend as though I am some sort of anomaly here in the GOP South.
To set the record straight, I am not a Democrat or a Republican. I am more of a free and independent thinker as I am quite certain you will see once you have read a blog post or two.
There are issues I am conservative about and there are issues I am liberal about. I have voted not only for Republicans and Democrats, but I have voted for Green party and Independent candidates as well. My vote has never been cast based solely on the political ideology of a candidate, my vote has always been cast based on who I feel thinks the most like I do.
Not all voters think with the same clarity
People will show up to the polls, provided they make it there at all, consistently checking whichever name appears next to the (R) or (D) that they are so used to checking. And then these people never look further to see what the person who they elected is actually doing. I truly believe that if people were more involved in the election process they would be more likely to pay attention to what is really going on. Which brings me back to my post, where people would be forced to gain knowledge of the candidates actual capabilities and intentions. What a cure to the blind voting that occurs throughout our country.
Certainly there are others like myself who research their candidates and make an attempt to gain knowledge of what they stand for, but even then we still don’t have knowledge of what they are actually capable of. Especially when all they provide us with are catchy slogans like “Yes We Can” or attach simple terms like honor, integrity and values to their flyers; these things in no way describe what a particular candidate is capable of. I would like for once to have a candidate actually prove to me what they can do, and not feed me lines about their “values.”
I don’t disagree with you, mostly, on this one. However, I still have to say that saying information would be read if forced on people depends on the people. If they choose not to reseach candidates what makes you think they would make an effort to read about one if handed the information? I still think you give people too much credit. There are adults living in the U.S. that still do not understand how the democratic voting process works. Why? It was taught to us all in High School. They choose not to care, not to pay attention, and to live in thier own self-absorbed worlds.
Ok, I think you missed the part where we go back to the Voting on Facebook theory where people would be watching candidates compete on TV in lieu of their many commercials and traditional campaigning
I should add as well that I agree about it being pathetic that no one really knows even the basics of how the democratic process works
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