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Enough said. And no, not the end of the world! It is the latter portion of the year 2012; that means it's presidential election season again on 50 pieces of land called the United States... Now I've written something about politics one other time and I have good reason for having it that way. It's a topic I prefer to avoid mentioning in public and on this blog, I do NOT tolerate debates on political issues so don't even start with me.
Needless to say, I am looking forward to Election Day, cast my vote, find out the results, and move on; rest assured, I'll do my "homework" and then decide on who to vote for. Who am I gonna vote for you ask? Well, it's for me to know and you to mind your own business!
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It's human nature to be biased and quite frankly, we all are. But even I'm astonished to see friends and family, the ones I love and care about be so consumed with the presidential election campaign. I'm both amazed and disgusted by what friends and family have said over the social media regarding broadcasted debates as well as the presidential candidates. Election season brings out the worst in people. And when that's the case, there is nothing united about the United States when people are at each others' throats about it or complaining about it on Facebook. The other day, I read an article about a group who threatened to riot if the candidate they're voting for lost the election. Now whether or not they were serious or not, who has the audacity to do that?! Just goes to show how civilized some people are. But people are entitled to their own opinions no matter how extreme it gets. And some people are gonna be total d-bags about it.
When I first started this blog, I called it my "rants" page, meaning it was a place for me to speak my mind, rant about something whether it was about something I liked or something I hated; a place to blow off some steam and move on with life. This is a true rant; my complaint is aimed on how friends and family just blurt out on how they hate and disrespect a politician running for office, even to the point of incorporating crude, offensive language, complaining about the issues the country faces, and even posting Internet memes that just add to the fire. This is everybody elses' view:
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So why am I gonna vote? I want what's best for the country I call home. It is my civic duty (as well as everyone elses'!) to vote for a leader who I think can lead this country in the proper direction. I'll do what I've always done in times like this; I'll keep my critical opinions to myself. But I won't keep my head buried in the ground and completely ignore it; otherwise the extremists will win.
"We are rightfully worried about the swelling bureaucracies of government, which need to respond to us—not to regiment us. But we cannot tame those bureaucracies unless we first tame our appetites, for a bloated bureaucracy is merely a mani
festation of citizen appetites, demands, and the subsequent need for external controls.
If we are not able to build into ourselves and our families the brakes of self-restraint and self-discipline, we are apt, unwittingly, to create tyranny in our government or anarchy in our citizenry. If we push onto the government the management not only of our economy, but also the management of our morals, the civil servants of the future will be neither civil nor servants."
-Neal A. Maxwell
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