The political conventions are over, but the media deluge has just begun. We will now have four months of campaign propaganda and mud-slinging. And that’s from the voters.
The ads on television will choke any rational thought from our minds by Labor Day, with two more months of paid drivel to go. Why do we do this to ourselves?
I know who I am voting for, but no ad can convince me I’m going to make the right decision. I think that, like many voters out there, I’m doomed to make a “lesser of two evils” choice, and I will hate myself the whole time I’m doing it.
Voting should not feel like a choice between tooth extraction and oral surgery.
Lose the tooth, you say, and just get a new one. Go through the pain and save the tooth, some others of you say. You see the dilemma here.
I don’t know how often–if ever–we have had this kind of electoral year; one in which the candidates are not ideal, but the parties and their supporters so divided and polarized that our country is unlikely to feel good come November 9. In fact, nobody may feel good slogging into the polling places on November 8.
Who we vote into the White House will either stabilize the country or send it into turmoil. When they take office barely eight years after our markets tanked and nobody had faith in the economy, and plunge into a world still trying to handle issues with global terror and extremism, we will be on edge, shivering with apprehension if not winter’s cold.
Why do our leaders take office in winter? It’s our most vulnerable time with unpredictable weather, so why add unpredictable politics into the mix?
Whatever happens, we have to wait it out until the time comes for us to install our next leader. With the Olympics coming in one week, I’m hoping the paid products outsell the paid politics, at least for a couple more weeks.
I want to delude myself for a few weeks more that everything will be okay.
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