My Vote is for sale!

[*PhilHos*]

(08-10-2016, 01:36 PM)Benton Wrote: Well. No, I'm going to anyway.



Not why you shouldn't vote for Trump. I honestly think everyone should vote for the candidate that reflects their values the most. If Trump's and yours are parallel, go for it.

But to the first line above, that's not the message that will be heard. The message that comes through is the same one that's guided our political landscape for 30ish years. If you want to get elected, you have to do three things: lie, spend the most and have an interesting personality. That's the message that's been sent since around the Reagan era.

Tell the people what they want to hear. And if they find out the truth, deflect it.

Spend gobs of cash slinging mud. You may not be the best candidate, but make sure everyone knows just how horrible the other guy is.

Play it up for the camera. It got JFK elected. And Reagan, Clinton, W, Barack. Have a beer, shoot some hoops, play the sax, tell some jokes. Policy? Who cares, just show them you're interesting. Nobody likes boring people like McCain or Dole — give them some excitement.

You want you vote to send a message that you're tired of the same old thing? Vote third party. You want your vote to continue the cycle of electing dishonest, morally bankrupt people that are fun, vote for Trump or Clinton.

I will consider what you say, but I don't think it's going to change my mind. I "hear" what you're saying that Trump is just more of the same, but I still think it'll send a message if he's elected. Maybe not, but I still want to try. Who knows? Maybe I'll wake up one Tuesday morning and decide that sending the message is not worth Trump being president or that it just won't be heard at all.