Why I vote.

Get out and vote! Be sure to vote in this extremely important upcoming election! We need your vote! This message is repeated over and over. Voting is important. Elections have consequences, and other similar statements. But I feel the need to illuminate why I personally desire to vote.

 

            I hear some people make statements like, “I am a democrat, so I vote for the democrat”, or conversely “I am a republican.”, or “I vote for the best candidate”. However, these statements have little meaning to me. Instead, I want to vote for the candidates that I think support my beliefs, and in my opinion will do what is best for this country. Instead, our political system wants to present me with a choice of supporting a political agenda, and I have to search beyond the simpleton stereotypes being expounded by most of the candidates.

 

            Today, I want to talk about the innocent-appearing concept of political correctness. It is a little difficult to define exactly, but a famous quote helps. The author of the quote was speaking about pornography, and he said that writing a legal definition of pornography was very difficult, but he could certainly identify it when he saw it. In my opinion, political correctness is a tool used to force others to behave or think a certain way based on the use of public shaming. It has little or nothing to do with the moral or logical results of the thought or action. The central theme is to control other people. It is the forerunner of developing a dictatorial society where individual thinking or freedom of speech are outlawed. I believe in the values expressed in our constitution, which includes freedom of speech. Attempting to curtail freedom of thought and freedom of speech therefore violates my beliefs, and I think it also undermines the welfare and health of our nation. I am compelled to oppose political correctness.

 

            What are the consequences of political correctness? What should you expect to happen when a group of people have succeeded in implementing political correctness? In my opinion, one offshoot is intolerance of divergent opinions. Additionally, another is the grouping of people with non-complying opinions into the general class of “enemies”. This leads to a society based on divisiveness where there are no mutual goals for the common good expounded. Instead, an aura of suspicion and hatred develops fueled by the group expounding political correctness. This is further exacerbated by the smugness and self-proclaimed moral superiority of the “PC” enforcers. They then claim that the “enemies” can be subjected to any kind of treatment because their dissent must be destroyed at any cost. At that point, you have the emergence of the “Maxine Watters” type of individual and the Antifa-type organizations who claim that assaulting the “enemies” with violence, threats and any manner of insults is permissible. All of this is thoroughly distasteful and extremely destructive to keeping a free society. It violates the very foundation of my principles, and I vehemently oppose it.

 

            Therefore, I am opposed to any group or organization who advocates or supports the concept of political correctness. How does this relate to why I vote? Obviously, if I vote for candidates who advocate or support this, then I am undermining my core values. Political correctness, the current undercurrent of hatred by the democratic leaders, the endorsement of assaulting GOP leaders in public, the destruction of free speech, and the corrosive win-at-any-cost attitude of the democratic leaders all are abhorrent to me. I have heard the leaders of the Democratic Party repeatedly advocate or endorse some or all of these “PC” concepts. The most prevalent of the “PC” attitudes is “you must hate everything and everyone related to Trump”. I cannot and will not hate anyone based on “orders” from anyone. Why do I vote? I vote to defeat the current destructive agenda of the Democratic Party!