Do We Really Vote on the Issues?

I have a hypothetical, should people who are not informed in the most basic way about at least some of the most important issues in this election be allowed to vote? I know the argument that being allowed to vote is one of the sacred rights as Americans, and that is true so shouldn't it be taken more seriously?

I mean think about it. This country is going to hell and a hand basket the President is probably one of the worst in modern history, congress is not much better, and here we are fifty plus days away from the biggest elections in a long time and where talking about lipstick on a pig.

Fake out rage of sexism, distortions of the truth on both sides and yet people who don't care or don't take the time to find out what is real and what's a political tactic.

There is too much at stake this time around. I don't care who you are voting for don't we owe it to our kids, to are neighbors, to the people who came before us who fought for the rights of minorities and women's right to vote don't we owe it to them not to be swayed by media bias, don't we owe it to ourselves to know the facts?

This election coverage has been like watching tabloid television anything but the facts. Anything but the real issues if you want to hear a candidate talking about nonsense you can find coverage from sun up to sun down. However, try to find coverage of the candidates discussing what they want to do for the country if you are lucky you might get a sound bit or two at the beginning of each broad cast. It is shameful.

That brings me back to the voter it is our responsibility to know the facts. Life gets in the way sometimes I know that, family, work, I know that, but it is for the family, for the children, for the state of our economic future that we should at least know the basic facts.

I do not want people to vote for a person because they want to have a beer with him/her, that's insane. Vote for him because he's going to grow the economy, he's going to fix our education programs, he's going to end this war, vote for what ever issue moves you not because a guy gives a great speech, our a guy was a war hero over forty years ago, or the Gov. Moose hunts.

These aren't the issue that faces us in theses troubled times and if there is a candidate that refuses to address the issue and continues to try to distract voters from what is really important, we might want to ask ourselves why?