Let’s Be Careful Out There

I don’t care how you vote (okay, I do, but not for the reasons you think) and I don’t get political on this blog, but I do get “family” on this blog.

So.

Please encourage your friends and family to vote today. Just not with their feelings. Encourage everyone to vote with their heads. Ignore the hype. Ignore the attack ads. Look at the documentation from the League of Women voters–they’re sane. If you know swing voters, encourage them to examine their minds, not their hearts. Remind them to think.

I hear so much vitriol and so much insanity, but it’s all obfuscating the obvious. Whether politicians are good communicators or not doesn’t matter. You can go look at the Congressional Record. We have that power. If you see a vote that makes no sense to you, don’t blow the politician off as an idiot (as I often find myself doing). Go look at why. You’ll be surprised by the things that are hidden in votes that look like no-brainers. There are non-partisan sites that help you parse this stuff. There are good people out there just like you and me (well, better than me, anyway, because they’re doing something). We need to be encouraging them, not the screamers.

Encourage sanity. Encourage thought. Encourage people to look at platforms and voting records, not hype and commercials. Don’t let the Media Monkey sit on your friend’s House Hippo.

And hey?

Let’s be careful out there.

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