Common Sense

People. America. American Citizens! Please... Use some COMMON Sense!!!

Do Not base your vote upon misguided factors. Please don't make a decision to vote a particular way which might suggest you are a frightened, uncertain, small-minded, predictable, bigot. No matter how white you are, if you have no money or clout (such as a known family name behind you) or personal celebrity, you cannot afford to have another Republican in the White House. It's just that plain and simple.

If you are not well-educated from a four year university--preferably with your degree in business administration, business management, or finance--you do not understand how the Republican Party thinks, how it works, what its platform is by its own statement of purpose which drives its operations and reasons for being. I understand you are confused. But now's no time for you to be. Now's the time for you to educate yourself. You have about a month and a half to do so... so be quick about it.

Republicans cannot understand the need for money to pay your mortgage, to buy food for your family's dinner that evening or your child's breakfast the very next morning, to put gas in your car on the way to work because you've just found a close family member who'd front you the money to put $10-$15 worth of gas in your tank before you laid your head upon the pillow roughly 4 to 5 hours before you had to get out the door to that $9.25/hour job you cannot afford to be late getting to, even though you must put some gas into your car (the alternative would be you don't stop to gas up and will have to get out that old gas can and find a nearby station because you tried to make it to work to avoid being late). Oh, by the way, then, you'll really be late...and, sweaty and smelling of gas--and of fear that your job is truly now in jeopardy.

But, those Republican Party members don't have the additional money, time, frame of mind or benefit of first-hand experience to concern themselves with this kind of little problem. Their focus (and funds) must be placed upon big business...because that's what their platforms support. Don't be angry about that. In good times, when our country's economy is healthy and there's no serious money/market ailments afoot, the Republican party line is the best! That's what they do well...grow government through growing big businesses (and, I do mean big)--but we all thrive...when the economy and we, the American people (not the illegal visitors to our shores, either people, who cannot care because where they've come from is so much worse; we'll get to that in another post, though), are not struggling with real need: for jobs, for help to keep our homes and cars, for hope for the futures of our children or (heck) even ourselves. Gone are our investments, our savings, our little sources of security. But, don't blame the Republicans. Use your own heads...your own power as a citizen of the greatest, strongest nation in the world.

When you get ready to cast your vote, remember your future, your children's futures, might literally rest within that hand which casts that vote for the next leader of these United States. One candidate can win only if he and his green, out-spoken, attack dog (she did characterize herself as a bulldog in lipstick, didn't she?) of a running mate can continue to do tricks with sound bites from interviews of their opponents. Like Bush, the son, did with Senator Kerry, they will (and have) distract you (the potential, sane, responsible voter) from the truth and with irrelevant (any unimportant) issues, as long as they are not those that should, must concern you. You must be more concerned about that job, that home, that car, that you and your family must depend upon for your well-being and financial survival for at least four years.

Eight years ago, I said having George "Bubba" Bush in the White House for four years couldn't change my life--for good or bad. I was wrong. I said, "I can survive his illiterate, wealthy but dull-witted and uncomprehending knowledge of the middle class taxpayer ways of running a government for one term." But, again, after losing two jobs because they could not afford my salary, I found I was wrong.

Then, going into education, I found those who make the rules which guide our public education system had their hands tied and their heads brainwashed by the president's limited understanding of education through his revamping of the No Child Left Behind program. Politics run our educational systems. Until recently (this year, in fact) there was no one brave or forward-thinking enough to stand up to those who water down our schools' curriculums so that their own cultural agendas can be (and now for the most part have been) met. Meanwhile, the means for our American children to compete upon the world stage have become weakened and suffer. As a result, they have literately and nearly completely been bartered away for a perceived leverage in Mexico, a country whose very foundations are built upon a monolithically lawless power entrenched in the drug trade and sundry crimes, many times at a total disregard for the well being and lives of their own less affluent though lawful citizenry.

Again, I say, use your head. If we've ever needed to exercise good judgement and common sense, it's now. Don't wake up the fourth week in January wondering, "What could I have been thinking?" when you wake up in a shelter. This is not a scare tactic. It's merely fodder for your newly acquired reason to use that COMMON Sense. Use it.