Excuse me the quick to blame President Obama folks,
People I know are tired of seeing the President having to bang his head against a brick wall in an attempt to get things done. How about people showed their support by not showing up to support the people who make the President's job harder? Even though I did vote after further consideration of those who chose not to I am more empathetic.
If it wasn't for the city I live in putting an item on the ballot to have an elected school board versus an appointed school board I may not have shown up to vote either. If I had not shown up it would have been because I am tired of seeing how hard President Obama has worked and how little cooperation he is getting from the system as a whole. My non-support would have had everything to do with my distaste of how he has been treated and all he has had to endure since he has been in office.
As witnessed in the last two Presidential elections people showed up when they knew their presence overwhelmingly would make a difference. Let's also take into consideration all the millions spent on an event that boils down to an election that will cover one day. We have a large number of people living in poverty day-to-day who could think of a million ways they could put that money to better use. People who can't even get an increase in minimum wage which keeps them below the poverty line are being expected to show up to vote for campaigns that have spent millions frivolously, really? It is like the government is being micro-managed via the popular opinion of people with millions to spend on campaign funding and the voice of poverty is being silenced.
Furthermore, I feel if there is any one person to blame it would be Harry Reid for not bringing the real touchy issues between the Democrats and Republicans up to vote. And the media contributed by waiting to close to the mid-term elections to spotlight the whole fiasco. The elected officials in Washington weren't operating in the manner they were elected to do and by the way they were still being paid way above minimum wage as well. In my opinion there are a myriad of reasons why Democrats, Republicans, Independents and any others did not show up to vote rather than a notion of non-support for President Obama.
Personally, I find it insulting that they are blaming President Obama for the apathy or whatever other reason people chose not to exercise their right to vote. What about the other 63% or so who did not vote nationwide at all or some of the changes in identification requirements to vote? I know dang well they are not all Democrats. President Obama was shown casting his ballot. If there is one person I can think of who has a whole lot of reasons not to vote based on what he has endured it would be him.
I would like to further add, there has been no mention of the areas where there may have been only one name on the ballot. If they extract this from the polling results I think it would present a better picture of why some chose not to vote. It almost seems surreal for people to be boycotting a process that others fought. got beaten, and died for the right to exercise. All I can say is God help us all.
The whole situation reminds me of a popular lyrics in a song I remember from my Freshman year in college in the Marching Band of the Sonic Boom of the South "I Couldn't See the Forest for the Trees" sung by Peabo Bryson. In hindsight, which is 50/50 we need healing. When something is broken healing is in order. We need counseling. We need motivation. We need to believe again. This Democracy is our system and we need to fix it. We need to care. We need to show our concern.
On the real all the folks who chose not to vote, as a Democracy we need your voice. I can only keep going back to how much voting meant to my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and mother and the older I get the more I realize it. My mother did not vote this time. But with having MS for over 30 years this mid-term election is one of the only elections I ever recall her missing. If it wasn't for her health she would have been there. I am a product that growth requires change. For most of my adult life I did not vote. Once I matured to the level of seeing how much voting really matters. Some of the people I love and like right to vote being taken away and they are still required to contribute to this financially by paying taxes and realizing how unfair that seems to me I will always exercise my right to vote. I hope everyone else finds their purpose for voting.
