Both Parties and Me in the Middle

“How many Trump voters does it take to change a light bulb? None! Trump will declare there is light and they will stand in the dark and cheer!

At first I smiled when I read the joke, but my smile quickly turned into sadness. How can such a harmless joke bear so much truth?

The Man Who Doesn’t Vote

He is a nice, older gentleman. He comes from a small town in the midwest, where he and his siblings were raised by a single mom. He knows poverty, has lived it and doesn’t like how it made him feel.

What would they say about me?

It’s hard to watch TV these days, negative campaign adds left and right! How much nicer it would be if the candidates would just tell us what they stand for. “Hello…introduce yourself! I am your audience and a potential voter. Give up the smear campaigns, it gets you nowhere -at least not in my house.”

I Have Your Back

I watched the news,  “I hope they will feel it,” I thought to myself and felt ashamed right away.

2016 Presidential Election -Gender Issue

 

I have been through a turmoil of emotions in this election. I was stunned, flabbergasted, disgusted, sad; there were days when I felt discouraged and hopeless. 

Will there still be a Public Good?

“Why do we force people to pay taxes?”

Because they wouldn’t pay otherwise.

“Why wouldn’t they?”