Election Time Woes

The reason why we keep electing one bad person after another is that we are voting based on such small knowledge of the candidate. Knowledge that comes from the TV ads and media reports. That is just not enough information to elect anybody with.

What do I mean? Here is California we are replacing the 50th Congressional seat after the incumbent, Randy 'Duke' Cunningham was convicted of many federal offenses for bribery and like acts. So we responsible citizens must choose who should fill this now vacant seat so we can continue to be represented in the House. But as we get closer to Election Day all I see is mudslinging ads against each candidate by each political party and the people running, it's nauseating. One person says the other is a lobbyist, who then fights back by calling the opponent an extreme liberal, and it keeps goes back and forth. Not that the ads are wrong, but it still doesn't give me any pertinent information to which would convince me candidate A is better than candidate B. I just think that media and greed have defiled the democratic process of electing the right person for the right job and all we're doing when we vote is choosing the lesser of two evils. Brian Bilbray, the leading Republican candidate for the vacant seat say's he a conservative, but certain things have shown him to be just as liberal as his Democrat opponent, Francine Busby. So I don't know. I've almost reached a point where I'm damned if I vote, and I'm damned if I don't. In fact, I think the only thing keeping my immaculate voting record this year is the propositions, I want to vote for those. Even though none of my votes have ever gone the way I voted. For some reason the majority of Californian's want to make things harder and raise taxes for us. But as an American I shouldn't let go of my constitutional right just because it's futile and fatiguing.

And I'm not saying that this election is one out of a million, all elections that I've voted in, and many before that were just as bad as this one. The only thing that makes this one stand out is that I'm finally getting tired of it. The way things should be if it were a perfect democracy is that the people elect the better person based on their morals and wisdom and faithfulness to the constitution, not based on what they'll do for just the Republicans or just what they'll do for the Democrats, but for all. But I can see how that's a little hard when our nation is so obviously divided on both morals and wisdom.