Do not be distracted! (#2073)

It is election time again and of course the Republican party that has done little to nothing to help the American working/middle/poor class is busy distracting us from the harm they are causing us. They do it by controlling narratives that have nothing to do with policy but instead everything to do with controversy. While we are busy arguing over irrelevancies they are quietly biding their time waiting for the voting season to be over. What they accomplish is not being blamed for their recklessness aimed at us. We allow it by falling for their distractions without pinning them down and making them say "uncle" for their wrongfulness. I see strong minded democrats inadvertently falling for the bait of Republican nonsense. It chafes me to no end when I see too many of us spending our valuable time on subjects Republicans are manipulating to the forefront of our discussions and not enough time on the obvious harmful policies they are advocating. The old "look over there" diversion while in front of us the bald nakedness of their harm is being ignored. I ignore any meme that Republicans attempt to use to either equate both parties with harm or that blatantly call out the Democrats for harms that Republicans cause. I instead focus on the real life harms Republicans cause and break them down for others to see the bad intent Republicans have for our democracy and civilized way of life. A perfect example is playing out right now. The rather small Ebola virus danger is being portrayed by Republicans as the greatest threat known to man by Republicans while in Wisconsin, thousands of previously legal voters are being denied their right to vote through a new Republican law that makes their voting franchise almost impossible to attain. The new law is aimed at low income voters who are traditional Democrat voters so any nonsense about trying to solve a problem with voter fraud, which in all practicality doesn't exist, is exposed as a farce. But instead here is all the media attention on Ebola while democracy is being stolen from our citizenry.