Please Think About It...

Who are you going to vote for?

Decisions on such things should be determined purely by how well the candidate meets the criteria you hold to be critical to success on the job. The nice thing about the USA is that we can each have our own set of criteria that we feel this person should meet. Not only that, but the right to vote guarantees that we can apply our choices in a fair contest to choose our leaders. The body of opinion of the nation ultimately selects it’s leaders.

Note that in most of the world, this is not the case. We must be constantly vigilant against the temptation to vote without due consideration; failure to do so will eventually result in the loss of this basic right, and then it will take another revolution to regain it. Witness the current situation in Venezuela. Don’t think it can’t happen here. All it takes is enough voters guessing wrong.

If you examine the belief system of the candidate (insofar as you can determine what it is), and find distasteful, or dangerous, or misguided, or destructive, or poor morality, or foolish things; if you see evidence of lying, or concealing elements of the personal history; well, it is probably an intelligent exercise of your franchise to vote against that person.

If your examination of the belief system of that candidate finds instead that there is honesty, strength of character, wisdom, knowledge, and evidence of good decision making, perhaps that person is the one that deserves your vote.

It is your decision. Be careful, be wise. You can give away things very dear to you (and me) by an incorrect evaluation of the candidates. You should make sure that you are going to be willing to live with anything the candidate you select may decide to do. This is not a decision to be made lightly. And it may be that no candidate meets your criteria completely. So choose the best you can. If there’s nobody you want to vote for, there are surely those you want to vote against!

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