I have to ask since several races in Virginia have come into doubt as to who will win. Again, will we let the proud ignorant racists win? I feel like I am in some surreal reality where questions like this are the normal. Yet this isn't some bizarre alternative reality it is the only one we have and it has become an outright nightmare! How in the name of all that is good can a political party like the republicans who despise women, hate those of color and love the embrace of treason even be considered viable as a political force? Are we Americans so out of tune with the honor and nobility of virtue? Do we even know what virtue means? I have to ask because right now republicans control the Senate, the House, the Presidency and the Supreme Court. How can it be that the republicans can win without having the morality or the ethics of a decent honorable person?
Well they do win while not having these fine qualities and if that is what America represents then that is who we are. Lacking in conviction of purpose for being a better example to our children and the world at large. Our shame is there for all to see and yet we don't care. How long can I keep up a stiff upper lip and say that this isn't who we are contrary to all the evidence? We more honorable Americans have a chance to wake up the rest of us otherwise non voting Americans in a little under 72 hours in many local and state elections across our country and get them to vote for a better future. Time will shortly tell if we did and if so then the wave toward crushing the republican party in the 2018 midterm national elections will have begun. If not then the worst of who we are will be without a doubt.
I try to stay optimistic that the ones who are voting will make more than just a symbolic vote for their traditional candidates from their traditional party's. I would hope that the electorate would ask themselves do these candidates reflect my inner core of democratic values? Do these candidates stand up for those who need protecting and for those who are denied fair respect? Do these candidates make me proud to be a soul who loves more than hates? Putting all political parties aside and voting for a candidate that has the best interests of all people at heart is what I think America is waiting for. We need to have politicians represent us as who we could aspire to be and not as who they demand we be by some other factor not in tune with democratic principles.
Well they do win while not having these fine qualities and if that is what America represents then that is who we are. Lacking in conviction of purpose for being a better example to our children and the world at large. Our shame is there for all to see and yet we don't care. How long can I keep up a stiff upper lip and say that this isn't who we are contrary to all the evidence? We more honorable Americans have a chance to wake up the rest of us otherwise non voting Americans in a little under 72 hours in many local and state elections across our country and get them to vote for a better future. Time will shortly tell if we did and if so then the wave toward crushing the republican party in the 2018 midterm national elections will have begun. If not then the worst of who we are will be without a doubt.
I try to stay optimistic that the ones who are voting will make more than just a symbolic vote for their traditional candidates from their traditional party's. I would hope that the electorate would ask themselves do these candidates reflect my inner core of democratic values? Do these candidates stand up for those who need protecting and for those who are denied fair respect? Do these candidates make me proud to be a soul who loves more than hates? Putting all political parties aside and voting for a candidate that has the best interests of all people at heart is what I think America is waiting for. We need to have politicians represent us as who we could aspire to be and not as who they demand we be by some other factor not in tune with democratic principles.
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