Description: Idle musings, deep thoughts, random bullshit
We’re just a couple of days from Election Day and the rhetoric and vitriol is ramping up to new heights. Candidates for every office from Governor to Dog Catcher are telling anyone who will listen why votes for the other guy are bad for everybody…while somehow never getting around to saying why votes for themselves would be good for everybody. It’s all “Vote for me because the other candidate is anti-everything good and wholesome. ”
The only problem with that approach is that the other candidate is saying the same thing but from the other direction. How are you supposed to choose? If either one said something like, “I’ve got X number of years in government at the regional level and I did A, B and C during my tenure.”…or maybe, “I’ve got a Masters in Economics and consulted with the Treasury Department for the last however-many years.” then you’d have something you could check on to help you make up your mind.
But what we have is just finger-pointing. Well, that and what they say they’re for or against…and how they say it. It’s really easy to stand up and say “I’m in favor of” or “I’m opposed to” a political hot-button. But how they say it can be very telling.