If I could vote again I would vote for a shorter election season!

Yeah, I already voted and dropped my ballot in the mailbox this morning. No more trying to convince me who to vote for but one of my favorite authors posted a new blog which I found fun to read and thought I would share it here. I just couldn't resist and I had to write a comment back to him which I have posted below as well.

Happy Monday,
Trav

http://donmilleris.com



Don,

I am a big fan and glad you started a blog because waiting for your next book to come out has only further illuminated my diagnosis of suffering from an acute impatience illness. I have sort of latched onto the part above where you address the turning point in your life of realizing Democrat does not equal some sort of demon possessed supernatural individual. As much as I try to shelter myself from politics, I have to admit I recently heard reference to Barak as the Antichrist (which I actually laughed out loud to the person who was in all seriousness trying to explain this to me... I think I offended him). I have long since been convicted of what you have addressed above and believe I would like to vote for the best candidate but I probably won't ever be famous enough to be invited to meet a senator and his wife (or the other way around) let alone one that is running for president.

I read in your about what happens when we try to email them and I don't expect a phone call to work with much a better success rate. So how can I weed through all the poo the media feeds us continually (which is why, as I alluded to previously, I try to keep myself away from politics) to understand what the candidates really believe and who to vote for?

I too have already cast my ballot, but in Washington State, so I no longer need to be convinced who is the better candidate. Lucky for me, I was able to relay that I already voted to all the candidates that called my house yesterday asking for my vote. I am still slightly disgruntled as I was trying very hard to watch the Seahawks lose in peace and I kept getting interrupted. The idea just came to me, maybe I will have my three year old start answering the phone for the next couple of days, while my bad attitude disolves?

But seriously Don, how do you get around it? I can't go some place where they decide to not talk about the issue because then I am avoiding things again and that doesn't help. If I stay in my church I will be subjecting myself to the generations of right wingedisms telling me who to vote for. If I watch the media I will be subjecting myself to the variety of left wingedisms telling me who to vote for. Maybe if I decide to vote based on how SNL interprets the candidates? That seems as unbiased as everything else?

I guess I am just at a loss. For each election that passes my vote seems to be losing value at the same rate as my investments in the stock market. Then there is the whole issue of this exorbitant amount of money that gets spent on these campaigns. I mean, we have people with real problems that could use just a fraction of that money to really make a difference and I could go as far as saying it could probably save people's lives. It just leaves me at an even deeper loss of what to do.

Thanks again for the post Don!
Travis