Michael1942's Blog

Even though not many of us will admit it, we are unwilling in many cases to be the first to step up in situations that bring us out of our comfort zone. This is evident in the work place, social gatherings and even in voting preferences. This phenomenon has brought us to the stage where voters are angered at whoever is in office even if those office holders had little or perhaps nothing to do with the  current state of things. One of the reasons our situation is this bad appears to be our complacency. The elected officials and hopefuls all are pushing their own agendas not the voters. In all of their campaign ads there is a scary recipe of 1 part truth,2 parts innuendo,  the balance is their truth (or what they would like us to believe). For years the voters have allowed the office holders and seekers to dictate our voting choices. When we don’t like the field we don’t vote at all or we just push a button as an exercise in voting.This usuallly results in the retention of a poor public servant or the placement of worse one. This behavior is “let someone else do it”. Voters have let someone else do it for too long and now need to take back their voting rights and stop being swayed by plausible sound bites, innuendo and lies offered by politicians.