I know it's so easy to go through life with an easy reference guide to make your decisions easier. Take politics for example, at some point in your early adulthood, you probably made a decision. That decision can probably be narrowed down to one of two letters; R or D. Now, doesn't that make your life easier? If I'm an R and D does something stupid, then I ridicule said D. If an R does something stupid then I ignore it, rationalize it, or make an excuse as to why it is OK under these circumstances. Or vice versa.
It sure does make things easy. But what happens when your letter of choice puts you in a position where you have to start voting against your own best interest time and time again? What if your letter made it illegal for companies to bid for the best prices on pharmaceutical drugs? What if your health insurance kept rising and rising and rising as a result of this? What if your letter lied our country into invading and occupying a sovereign nation? What if this led to countless American deaths and trillions of dollars in debt with no end anywhere in sight? What if your letter had allowed the energy and oil companies free reign in the White House. What if they had allowed secret meetings where they determined policy and rigged the system so that after they gave you a sweet rebate on that SUV that you didn't really need, the price of gas would somehow nearly triple over the next 4 years?
What if instead of looking at life as R or D, we started looking at what is best for our Country? Best for the people of our Country? What if we abandoned our scarlet letters and said, "no more letters!" What if we took the time to think for ourselves and vote in our own best interests? What if...?
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