I've had something weighing heavy on my mind - I'm concerned about the direction of this country that I live in and here's why...
This Republic in which I live is slowly killing itself from within and we, the people, are allowing it to happen. The United States of America is a republic, not a democracy.
re·pub·lic noun - a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
In the last 20 or 30 years, we, the people, have been allowing our elected officials, who are bought and paid for by corporations and billionaires, to run our country into the ground so that they can line their pockets. Just take a look at the campaign contributors for any major political candidate. I venture to say that most people don't understand just how a PAC or political action committee works. (1)
Super PACs (independent expenditure only political committees) are committees that may receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor unions and other PACs for the purpose of financing independent expenditures and other independent political activity. - fec.gov
Then, there are billionaires, like George Soros, Warren Buffet, and the like, who's entire purpose in life is to get certain types of people into office to sway economics and to line their wallets even further. To many, it's a game and we are their pawns. If that doesn't make you angry, it should. (2)
Anyway, that's not the point of this post. I've been thinking about voting and, here in Georgia, we just voted in the Presidential Preference poll. I've been registered to vote since the day that I turned 21 and I take my right and duty to vote very seriously. I don't think I've ever missed an opportunity to vote. And, until I moved to Georgia in 2020, I've always been a registered Republican. I'm a conservative and the party was the one that more aligned with my views. In Georgia, however, you don't have to claim a party when you register. But, when you go to the polls for certain elections, you have to say whether you want a Democrat or Republican ballot. Last week, I grabbed my Republican ballot that had at least a dozen names on it; most of them aren't even running anymore. Ridiculous!
I say all that to say this, in my opinion, there are only two people running, and I'm not happy about it. The Democrats have put forward a puppet in Joe Biden. He's a doddering old man, who is being led around and told what to do. Frankly, if he were my husband, I wouldn't (dare I say?) allow him to run for re-election. God forbid if he dies in office, his second in command, Kamala Harris, is not going to make a good leader. In any speech I've ever heard her give, she says absolutely nothing.
The Republicans are going to put forward Donald Trump as their candidate. I was born and raised in the Tri-state Area (Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey). I've grown up knowing who Trump is nearly my entire life and it wasn't a positive impression that he left. He's a self-absorbed, cocky, narcissistic jerk with visions of grandeur. He's the textbook definition of someone with a personality disorder. When I was trained as a Social Security non-attorney representative, the short definition of someone with a personality disorder was that they were an a-hole. BINGO! What I currently see when I look at Donald Trump is a man with the self-control and behavior of a toddler, who's unwilling to take correction or instruction. He has little respect for anyone but least of so for women. And, I will not vote for him. I. Will. Not. Do. It! The very thought repulses me.
We were discussing at dinner the other night about when the antichrist comes and there was a suggestion of what if it were Donald Trump and that got me thinking about the cult of Trump. I've watched people I know and love, smart people, Godly people, completely go all-in with Trump, wholeheartedly, and that kind of devotion is frightening and very cultish. Think of those who followed Hitler, for example. Yes, I said it.
Why do I call it the cult of Trump? Just look at these warning signs of a cult that I came across today...
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Before you get mad at me, go back and read number two. Read number six while you're at it.
I will absolutely do one of two things in November if the two major parties can't get their act together and I don't think they can:
- I will vote for a 3rd party candidate, or
- I will not vote for a President.
But, what I'd really hate most of all is to see is the people of this country bashing one another for another four years. It's time to take a stand together. Time to take back our beloved Republic. Time to get good, honest people into an office that has term-limits. Time for the ugliness to end. And, sometimes that means turning off the news, stopping the trip down rabbit holes, voting your conscience, and not being forced to vote for the lesser-of-two-evils. But that's just my two cents.
(1) https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/reform-money-politics/influence-big-money/super-pacs-coordination
(2) https://www.mironline.ca/the-increasing-influence-of-billionaires-on-us-politics-americas-hidden-oligarchy/