More Political Mumbo Jumbo

Thanks Grandma for lighting my fire again. She won't be reading this because she doesn't need the internet she says, but she deserves the credit nonetheless.

It is easy to feel alone in my beliefs. We are removed from most of our family by several hundred miles and most of them aren't on the same team so to speak. We also don't follow popular belief most of the time. Feeling this 'gap', I didn't want to emotionally invest myself in another election. It is disheartening to put yourself up on that soap box time and again only to have it kicked out from beneath you, by those who claim to be more knowledgeable. After speaking with my dear grandma, I realize that is exactly where the other team wants me...silent. So...I am climbing back up on my soap box. The truth doesn't change and I can stand on that firmly.

I have rambled enough. There is but one thing more to say...Educate yourselves! Know exactly what you are voting for; know exactly who you are voting for. Just because you heard a great sound byte or read an article or listened to a great speech, does not educate you on the subject. Delve deeper. Almost every piece of legislation passed has a rider that is completely unrelated to the rest of it. Every person, not just a candidate, but each one of us has multiple sides. What we say we should do may not be what we actually do. I bring up this point only because some candidates are excellent speakers, but upon looking at their voting records and legislation that they authored or sponsored, one can see that the excellent speech was just a bunch of words. Words written most times by a speech writer, polished to give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside when they are spoken. As a voter you hold the future in your hands. Don't you owe it to yourself and your family to do the extra work to know the truth?