Election

 I am so tired of the constant election ads.   I've gotten dozens of election slicks--all from two opposing candidates for congress, one democrat, one republican.  I would love to punish both, by not voting for either of them.  I hate those election slicks.   They're just dumping excess campaign cash into them.  Nobody pays any attention to them, that I know.

I live in a world where every penny counts and these elections drive me batty because I see literally piles of money, that could be used for good things, going up in smoke.

I realize the tremendous importance of this election.   I will vote.   But I might be a disallusioned voter.  

We have tremendous problems in Oregon, problems neither side ever addresses.   

I despise the follower mentality, the godification of candidates, the blindness of following.   

If Trump is elected and he follows through with his threats to deport all illegal immigrants, for instance, I bet half our county would be gone and employers would be scrambling like crazy to find employees.  Seriously its so ironic in many ways that so many people living in an ultra conservative county are likely illegal and working for outwardly ultra conservatives who would be up a creek without them.  It will be interesting to say the least.

When people began calling me about how awful it was that haitians were eating cats and dogs somewhere in Ohio maybe, knowing that was fake news, I would just tell them worry more about all the animal abuse here, in our little county, by good old American citizens.  When we rid ourselves of animal abuse, neglect and abandonment here, then you can worry about somewhere else.

Anyhow, I hope there's no temper tantrum crap like the January 6 thing from before.   Sore losers are an embarrassment too.     Anyhow, that's life here now and has been for years.   

I have views, opinions, but they don't match up completely with either party.  I don't know a lot about everything on earth. I know very little about world economics, for instance.  It cracks me up to see online that a lot of people think they are experts at all kinds of things.   I like to comment things like, "I haven't recently studied the relations between oceanic temperature and Gulf Stream micro changes in loss of Greenland ice pack."   Lol.  Also I don't see how bombing children can ever bring about peace.  I cannot sleep nights if I hear news of more children being torn apart by bombs and I don't see how anyone can.  I want to cover them with my body.  I want to somehow protect them all.   I can't.

Why do grown ups want to kill each other in the name of this or that or anything really.

Is it all hormones?   I know I'm diverging, but I think about that kid, from a couple weeks ago, 15 years old, in that affluent suburb of Seattle, who recently shot his parents and three siblings, tried to place blame on one sibling, whom he had killed.   A sister, just 11, survived the horror.    WTH?

I think of the video I saw recently, of a gang of teens beating up a kid in the street and a woman, a teacher, weaves her way into the violence to throw her body over that child being beaten.  The attackers ran.

Courage. Decency.  Independent thinker.  There were plenty of others standing around doing nothing but watching.

I despise followers.  I'll vote.  But I might leave a few lines blank if I think they're just blind followers.