When I voted for the first time in 1976 I registered as a
Republican. Seemed the right way to go at the time. As a youngster I was
impressed with JFK but then came LBJ and that soured me on the Democrats. But
then Nixon did no good service for the Republicans. I voted for ford because he
seemed like a nice guy and he ended our involvement in a war that should have
never been, Vietnam. Yes, he pardoned Nixon, for what I consider a minor
offense, bugging for campaign secrets. Nixon did far worse to us with the
alignment to the Saudis and the petro-dollar that ended our last traces of the
gold standard. Inflation took off. He also cozied up to China and in the end
that has hurt more than helped us. Ford did nothing of consequence and the
Watergate backlash gave us four years of misery with a well-meaning but inept
Carter. The economy languished and we were seen as weak thus the Iran hostage
crisis and the move by Russia into Afghanistan. Next up was Reagan, whom I
voted for both times. He was a patriot and a decent human being. But like JFK
he was forced to surround himself with people who would undermine him and the nation.
The economy improved by a lot yet it was not without sacrifice mainly to the
Federal Reserve and the beginning of an ever growing debt spiral thanks to
Congress. I was still a Republican. That would change with George HW Bush, the
former CIA guy and Mr. read my lips no new taxes. He was globalist back when
most of us were no sure how bad that really was. He wanted NAFTA and GATT but I
saw nothing good about that. I never liked unions but I agreed with their
opposition to what would take so many jobs away from us.
And so in 1992 I began my trek toward being an independent
voter. In the coming years I would vote for the person and not the party. Both
parties got my votes at various times at various levels. But I was a Perot guy
in 1992. We were later demonized for giving us 8 years of Clinton. He was not
the worst President but he was far from being the best. He was just a good old
boy looking for his thrills and detached from what has become obvious as a
really nasty wife. He was immoral in a nation rapidly becoming that way and
excusing it. He and his wife were products of the 60’s and their agenda and
lives showed that. Perot received 21% of the popular vote even though he was
threatened by both parties and removed himself from the race. People were fed
up with the two parties and they were both scared to death. Mrs. Clinton’s
leftist leanings were far worse than Bill’s. She tried to get socialized
medicine back then and the country hounded her into retracting it. We were not
ready. Twenty years later we still weren’t but one party rule forced it upon us
whether we wanted it or not. The only thing I give President Clinton credit for
is the Good Friday accords in Northern Ireland which effectively ended that
sectarian struggle between Christian sects. But he, like Bush before him got us
involved in foreign wars best left alone. Kosovo was none of our business and
it became the first war in which we sided with Islam against supposedly
oppressive Christians. Milosovic was a tyrant in many ways but it was still
Europe’s business and not ours just as Ukraine is today. Tito had held
Yugoslavia together and kept the cultural differences from blowing up. With his
death the region fell apart. This is very much like what we see today in North
Africa and west and central Asia where dictators get knocked off by us and
replaced with far worse. Yet we survived the Clinton years and a Republican
Congress kept spending in check to a degree. Then came GW Bush and the events
of 9/11. We had enflamed the Islamic world for years both overtly and covertly.
Yet another war that would end whenever and accomplish little except gets lots
of our military and lots of civilians killed. Bush gave us the infernal Patriot
Act which was a huge step in taking away civil liberties. The one who followed
him took that to even worse levels. I confess that I voted for GW the first
time but not in the primaries. After that I went full on independent. I had
begun to see what the insider elite of both parties was all about and it cared
zero for we the people. Their agenda was global and not national. I believe in
taking care of your own first. By the end of his second term we had the
universally despised banker bailouts. It was obvious who DC cared about and it
wasn’t us. Then came the cult of Obama. He weaved his spell with his
propagandists and came from nowhere to win an office for which he was nowhere
near qualified. It was all about color and nothing else. He had no record of
accomplishment and in fact virtually everything about him was and still is
obscured. His wife was and is an angry woman who hates the country and was
clear about that in her master’s thesis. Like the Clintons they were products
of the 60’s radical left. Bill moderated over the years and his wife did not.
The Obamas were hard left as well.
It was clear in the past elections after Reagan that who the
nominees in both parties were for the highest office were coronated and
selected by the inside elite like Carl Rove. We got sacrificial lamb Dole, hard
line globalist hawk McCain, and left of center socialist lite Romney. The base
of the GOP had turned away when folks like Ron Paul were shown a complete lack
of respect. The center had moved left and many of us were left with no choice.
This happened in Congress as well and it is clear we can either have radical
left or moderate left with no spine. We have been getting nothing but lesser of
two evil choices when most of us want no evil at all.
This is a mid-term election. Historically these are usually
low turnout. In fact all our elections only produce a fraction of eligible
voters. So we wind up allowing 10-17% of the country to determine our fate
because of apathy. We see the results. I have been told by many that voting for
someone who is not a D or an R is a wasted vote. I contend the wasted vote is
one that votes for someone simply because you think they are the only ones who
stand a chance of winning rather than because you agree with them. The D and R
paradigm is false. Both parties are essentially the same behind the scenes in
spite of public posturing for the cameras. There are some exceptions to that
like Gowdy, Cruz, Gohmert, and others. Yet they are too few to make a
difference.
In the third Congressional district race for The house this
year we have incumbent Tipton(R), and challenges Abel Tapia(D) and Tisha Casida
(I). I went to a debate between the latter two in Alamosa that the incumbent
did not attend. Both Tapia and Casida were asked great questions and both
answered well, They were courteous to each other with few barbs or personal
attacks of note. They agreed more than they didn’t. Were Ms. Casida not in the
race I might be inclined to go with Tapia as I am strongly anti-incumbent. But
I cannot because I know in spite of his sincerity and good intentions, I know in
time he will be towing the party line of radicals like Pelosi and Reid. I voted
for Tisha back in 2012 and will do so again this year. It isn’t because I have
an issue with Tipton in general but he is part of the machine and his votes
reflect it. We as Americans simply must eschew the false d and R paradigm. It
is a game and both parties are laughing at our willingness to keep doing the
same things with our votes and getting the same miserable results regardless of
party. Spending is insane. There is zero will to control our borders. We are
involved and funding foreign groups we have no business being involved with. We
have allowed disease in that should never have been allowed in. Political
correctness has run amok in every sphere. We are on the wrong side in almost
everything and heading down a track to a cliff. When I was a youngster my
grandfather told me that one day the USA would become more like the USSR and
the USSR more like the USA. We’re here and it’s lousy. DC cares more about
foreign nations, illegal immigrants, and politically correct groups than it
does about the general citizenry. They undermine everything in our constitution
with impunity. They look at us and know we object and simply say “what are you
gonna do about It?” They seem bent on civil war by assaulting us from multiple
directions. And so if we are going down then I for one will go down fighting
and with a clear conscience that I voted for people I believed in like Tisha
Caasida and not for the lesser of two evils because I’m a party hack or simply
want to vote for the one I think has the best chance. We the people are being
divided by race, gender, economics, and a whole host of issues by both parties
and their media helpers. They do this by intent. When has either part ever
actually solved one of the major issues? Everything they do makes matters
worse. Every time we declare a “war on….” It’s phony. War on poverty? We still
have poverty and it’s getting worse with the rapid demise of the middle class.
War on drugs? Prohibition never works and our own government arms the drug
cartels such as in Fast and Furious. War on crime? It’s getting worse with the weakness of the
judicial system and the overloading of private prisons with non-violent offenders.
And some groups get a pass on violence. War on terrorism? Fight them over there
but leave the border wide open over here? What sense does that make? Allow
radical Imams to preach hate and violence in our mosques and do nothing? Fund
Syrian “rebels” with our tax dollars and arm the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
only to have arms wind up in the hands of Al-Qaeda or similar groups. You can
bet if we declare a “war on…” it will be a glorious waste of your tax dollars.
People like Ron Paul and Tisha Casida are opposed to this nonsense as well as the
continued bloating of our bureaucracy that cannot be sustained. TSA searches infants and old ladies at
airports then lets undocumented people from anywhere get on airplanes. Really?
What sort of “homeland security” is that? It is the one that the Rove and
Wasserman-Schultz types want. None and in name only. We turn a blind eye to the
fate of Christians being slaughtered all over the world and suck up to radical
Islam as the “religion of peace” when nothing in its scripture is peaceful
unlike Christian scripture.
I want something different. No, not the “hope and change”
rubbish that the Soros puppet in DC gave us which produces equal misery for all
but a select ruling elite. Aren’t you tired of Congress voting itself a raise
well above cost of living every year when you never get one? And then they vote
on things and exempt themselves. This is what the D and R paradigm has given
us. Tisha Casida is beholding to no party. She is beholding to her constituents
and her own soul. I encourage all of you to seek another way and stop the
madness of voting for the same thing time after time. We will never fix what is
wrong if we remain divided by party and the issues they use as wedges. It is
long past time we vote for person, not party. Vote your heart and your mind and
don’t be a simple party hack. Look up what alternate candidates stand for and
if you agree then vote for them. God help us all if we continue down the track
to that cliff that we must reach if we do not take another route.
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