Red vs Blue

[Griff]

"My" union sent me a propaganda sheet making sure that I would know who the candidates from the approved party are. On the next page is a reprint of the old red v blue electoral map which shows how divided the people who vote in this country are. It has always been thus. Politicized Americans have been screaming and fighting about this stuff from day one.

Is there anything different now? Yes, in the past the role of government in the individual lives of citizens was limited. The stakes are much larger now. As warch said on a thread a while back, "everything is political." That bothers me a lot. What that means to me is that nothing is personal. There is no aspect of our lives that somebody doesn't have a political agenda about. From our birthing choices to disposal of our corpse somebody has an agenda for us. That is why our politics seem more shrill. The people of this country are clanning up, with good reason, their values both left and right, if you believe in that tripe, are under assault because whoever wins the election is expected to destroy the other guys agenda and assert his own. We now understand that both old parties know no spending, moral, or political limitation when it comes to foisting their agenda on the rest of the country. I would urge you political types not to assume the country is with the tiny minority of citizens who elect the next oppressor-in-chief.

Vote different.