With the election last Tuesday, many things have stirred up controversy: who won, who campaigned most effectively and least effectively, and citizens’ reactions to the candidates who won.
It seems like candidates are doing anything these days to get a vote. By “anything”, I mean ANYTHING. Turn on your television about a week before any election. For those of you who either don’t care about elections or are completely oblivious to politics, you might be surprised. For the sake of moral appreciation, I won’t mention any specific candidates in this next little rant. In commercials, candidates are portraying their opponents to be classless, low-life individuals who would “ruin the country, county, city, district, etc.” It is unreal to me that someone could resort to those measures just to win an election. Flashback to third grade: you like a boy/girl, but the boy/girl you like is currently infatuated with someone else. Naturally, as an immature third grader with NO morals or standards, you criticize the person that the boy/girl is infatuated with so they will like you. Yes, I just compared today’s political candidates to third graders—because that is the fairest comparison I could think of. COME ON, candidates. You want to win an election? Do it fairly, and do it with integrity. It makes me sick to my stomach to see personal bashing in political advertising.
The blame doesn’t stop at the candidates, though.
On Tuesday, I walked into my polling place to find about twenty people outside campaigning for their respective candidates—nothing out of the ordinary. What happened next made my skin crawl. One woman bluntly stated, “(candidate) is a racist liar that cares only about his people.” Uhh, wow. I am nearly 100% certain that this woman has never spoken to that candidate or gotten to know him personally. Heck, I am almost certain that this woman had never even researched the candidate’s stance on issues that affect our government today. Little things like that are the things that are causing our country to slowly decline. Our country was founded on moral principles that were implemented in our Constitution to allow the country to prosper forever. It is illogical that someone, like this woman, would bash another person that much just to see their favorite candidate win.
Another thing I have noticed in citizens is that there is no sense of privacy anymore when it comes to politics. I was in a restaurant the other day with some friends and one of my friends asked me who I voted for. This is where some moral questions arise. I was raised to never, EVER ask about the way someone voted in public. To me, it seems completely intruding to inquire about such a thing. I realize that just because I was raised a certain way doesn’t mean that other people should have been raised that way too. However, is it not common sense to know that some people might consider their vote to be private?
What has the election process in the United States come to? It has resorted to personal bashing of candidates and straight up lying about candidates. It has come to a certain sense of ignorance within the general population and an invasion of privacy and respect within the general population. Where is the integrity that our founding fathers built this country on? Where is the pride in our freedom that people are dying for every single day? Where is the respect for each other’s morals and principles that has been a standard of humanity since humanity existed? If this behavior continues, we will no longer be worried about which party has the majority of Congress. We will be worried about which country is about to overtake our corrupt government. We will be worried about what our children will have to go through. We will be worried about things that could have been avoided had we taken the time to think about what really matters.
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