Stop The Vote!

 

I know, I know ~ everyone says stay away from Politics and Religion unless you want to start chaos, but I think chaos has already started.  I am by no means a political expert. In fact, since I grew up on a island that is considered a U.S. Territory, I had very little exposure to the political world and we were not allowed to vote for the Presidency; so we really didn’t have a lot of family debates on those matters and what I learned about the political process and politics today is mostly from my life events.   I do know my father believed in being a Republican for his political views and I guess I grew up believing this was my preferred stance as well, “Less Government, more for the People.”  This was my upbringing in the 70’s and 80’s.

So I have been able to vote in the past 4 or 5 elections since I have been a resident in one of the contiguous states.  So for the times I did vote, generally I elected to stick with the Republican ticket.  Over the years, I have not always been a fan of the candidate that was chosen to represent our party, so I opted not to vote in those elections.  This is because I feel, as I am sure many others feel, we just don’t have a voice or either candidate just sucks and I choose neither.  Now early this year I was actually excited when I saw a Non-Career Politician was running for office, I said finally we are going to get to have some change up there in the Capital.  Sure I knew the TV version of Donald Trump from watching his Apprentice shows.  I knew he was very out spoken, intense, controlling, opinionated, a Real Estate Mogul, a Business man, etc., But what I was just really happy about is that he had not spent the last 20-30 years of his life on Capital Hill.  So I thought we had a shot to change up the elections this year!  Then “The Donald” began to speak, and all the crazy obnoxious things started to come out of his mouth.  I mean in the beginning the core of his ideas being different, outlandish, and making changes in the political world seemed fantastic.  But then the crazy Donald started to sprout.  I am not going to get into all the horrible things he is being accused of. We don’t have a lot of facts, just want the news media is printing and we know they are not as unbiased as they want us to believe, EVERYONE has an agenda nowadays; don’t be so naive.  I mean, I love how all these women are now coming out of the woodwork discussing the sexual exploits of Donald, but they happened years ago, and no one had anything to say then? Or the media bit with him and Billy Bush, just now comes to the surface??? And I am not taking his side. I am not excusing him, he is a pig no doubt.  But the point is, who I thought was going to finally shake up the political world, upset all the cronies on Capital Hill, get all the Lobbyist in an uproar (because we know they are the ones truly controlling the votes in Government ~ don’t get me started on that subject) has just turned out to be a complete ASS. And I am going to find it quite difficult to vote for him.  I am a republican by heart, but I just can’t see sending “The Donald” to the White House would be such a good idea for our Country.

OK then I thought; being a woman, I could change my political party and vote for the Democratic nomination of Hillary Clinton.  I think it is long overdue to have a female in the oval office, but what the hell???? I can’t even begin to say I believe in her. She has been gunning for political office since her parents stuck a pacifier in her mouth.  I truly believe everything she has done in her life was to get her to this point, which normally I would think was a great on her part. She has succeeded in being put on the ballot as our First female nominated Presidential candidate. But stop the Press!!! We really can’t be so blind and choose to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House just because she is a woman!  She is even more dangerous than “The Donald.”  She has lied to us.  She has been “in Bed” with the Political world for so long, I don’t think she really even knows what she stands for anymore. And to be honest, after she stood by her cheating ass, lying, scummy former President Bill Clinton husband just so she could keep her political career alive has made me a Hillary hater for a long time, besides; she is a Democrat, and I really couldn’t switch my political allegiance just because she is a woman.

So what do we do as Americans?  This is not what our forefathers envisioned for our government and the voting system. With all the checks and balances they thought they created so we would have a democratic process has gone in the shit hole.  We cannot stand by and let this vote just happen on November 8th.  Either Presidential Candidate is completely wrong for the United States, and if we were really smart WE WOULD STOP THE VOTE!  We stood up in 1870 with the 15th Amendment allowing African Americans to vote. Then again 1920 with the 19th Amendment   
and said Women had the right to vote. And again we called for a change with the Voting Act of 1965.  So we know it can be done, we can CHANGE the political world, we do not have to accept what the political process has dealt us so far. I believe the majority of Americans are not happy with the two choices we are being handed to vote for on November 8th. I don’t think most of us are undecided or confused. We are sad and upset that this is the best the system has to offer us. Every year it gets worse and worse who the parties send us to elect. And why because that is the way the system has worked for the past 2 centuries?  We have to STOP THE VOTE and make a change. This cannot be what was intended for us to do; to just sit back and take what they feed us. We are a country that stands for speaking our mind, for standing up to injustice, for rallying around what is right, not what is just meant to be.  I know this is not what is meant to be for us, so I know it is political suicide to take on a stance, but I knew I could not just let another voting year go by and stay quiet any longer. I only wish there was someone who could swoop in and save us from this madness, but no sane person wants to take on the debacle of the Presidency of the United States because they have made such a mockery of the system and all good persons would be destroyed in the process of trying to stand up for the people and trying to correct the wrong of our upcoming elections. Just sayin…

#stopthevote