If there is one thing I can not understand about my neighbors, it is how they vote. I can have a conversation with them in which they agree with every one of my stated goals, listen to my points on how best to meet those goals without offering any dissenting opinion, and then vote for those who will accomplish the exact opposite. It is something I see on the local to the federal level and it is making me crazy.

 

     How do people ignore which political party has been in charge of every single area that has devolved into lawlessness and rioting? How does this President get a pass on the state, the real and largely unreported state, of our economy? A pass that literally NO other President has received in our history? Is it because he's black? That is the most ridiculous and racist thing to even take into consideration but it's all they care about.

 

     I wish I could say they had learned  a lesson but the number of Ready for Hillary people who can't give a reason to vote for her beyond the fact that she is female is beyond depressing.

 

     I am trying to understand. I am trying to not name call and get angry. Because these are fellow Americans. Many of them would agree with me on important goals. It's the way they see of accomplishing these goals that I can not comprehend. When did we become a people that looked to the government for solutions?! Distrust of the government is written into every founding document and influenced they shape of the government we settled on in the 1700's.

 

     I am probably rambling a bit. It's been a long day at work. I'll just leave a Carl Sagan quote here.

 

     "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interesting in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." ~ Carl Sagan