2010 Campaign-Politics of Fear, Politics of Lies
The only thing that makes me madder than receiving 2-3 money seeking emails from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee everyday is to learn that my donations of $50 a month are trumped by the millions Karl Rove can dial up with a few phone calls to fat cats or insurance companies. This election is being bought by Republicans, and I cannot picture anything more wrong in an election than to have the outcome so influenced by a handful of special interest groups. I wonder if this is what our forefathers had in mind 234 years ago. Maybe it was since most of them were among the privileged class, and they also astutely envisioned assault rifles in the hands of those who want them is a good thing.
I wish that every politician who uses the word “Obamacare” would get a clue. I guess having our children turned down for coverage by insurance companies because of existing conditions is a good thing. Maybe we can drop even further down the list of countries when it comes to health care. We aren’t even close to being first now. The other day a Facebook friend mentioned she supported health reform, and some insane “friend” of hers came on and posted that was what Al-Qaeda terrorists wanted us to think. Say what? How did he discern that? Where did he get this information? This is the scary part of Rove’s misinformation campaign-some people choose no other source for information than such ads, and they believe them.
I am terribly frustrated and frightened about the direction our country is headed. I feel there is nothing I can do about it. I greatly fear the politics of mistrust, and hate. Do people have that short of a memory? People, the party that brought is the G.W. Bush years are who you want to put back in power; the same people with tired ideas that didn’t work then and aren’t going to work now either. Tea baggers complain about the federal government spending leading us to ruin, yet turn from reason when the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on television ads by their so called supporters.
This is sad.
