Please give me the support of your vote.
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After the recent elections with the Republicans not only winning enough seats to control the House of Representatives but also the Senate as well as many governorships, Susan turns Republican.
Susan didn't understand why so very many Democrats, 67% percent of her party didn't come out to vote in the midterm elections. Did they not think it was important to support their president and the parties' policies? With the Republicans the minority party, somehow they were able to get many more of their people out to vote than did the Democrats. The Democratic Party should have concentrated more on getting people to the polls than on speeches, protests, and complaining.
Even though Obama made healthcare available and affordable for all, made the banks accountable by disclosing their fees with credit card reform, and lowered the unemployment rate, he's not very popular. Why not? Maybe because he's a black man in racist America. Even though he passed a stimulus package, reformed Wall Street, ended the war in Iraq, returned tens of thousands of military personnel from Afghanistan, killed Osama Bin Laden, and turned the auto industry around, he's not well liked. Why not?
While the Republicans not only did nothing but tried to torpedo his success, their biggest success was taking the no new tax pledge. Their biggest success was doing nothing. Their biggest success was in not moving the country forward. So why, when they all should have been booted out of office, they're there for another two years for representatives and six years for senators. It seems to me with representatives only serving two years at a time, all they do is campaign. When do they have time to do anything else but to raise money for their campaign chest?
God help me. God help us all. Something is so very wrong with this system of one party against the other party and no party helping the average American. It's time we had one party, the American Party, a party for all instead of just the superrich.
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Apparently Obama and the Democratic Party didn't do enough to get the people out to vote. Maybe because, seemingly no one cares, this president as well as the Democratic Party as a whole are doomed for failure. Maybe it's just as simple problem of math, monetary math, and business accounting. Simplistically speaking, the party who can get the most people to pull a lever wins.
With Republicans owning all the radio, TV, cable, news outlets, and satellites, the Republicans told us whatever they wanted to tell us and whatever they wanted us to hear. Unfortunately Big Brother is not only here but Big Brother is Republican. With the Republicans mostly older, Caucasian, wealthy men controlling the largest share of the wealth in not only America but also in the world, sadly, maybe it just all comes down to money. As if our government is a real life game of Risk, whoever has the most money wins.
Forget about the poor, the disabled, the mentally challenged, the sick, the infirmed, and the elderly, everything is not only about money but also about more money. When is amassing enough money ever enough? Evidentially and sadly, it's as simple as whomever has the most money wins the election. The philosophy of the Republican Party, especially if you're a politician, a public servant, is that no one is entitled to anything but themselves. We're denied everything and they receive everything. Talk about handouts, politicians never pocket their hands. Always shaking your hand with one hand, they pick your pocket with their other hand.
If they could, the Republican Party would put an end to Welfare and food stamps. Your husband left you with three children under 8-years-old, that's too bad. You quit, were laid off, or were fired, that's too bad too. Get a job because they'll be no more unemployment benefits. Are you over 62-years-old and can no longer work? Well, best you just kill yourself because you won't be getting any Social Security benefits from us. You don't feel well? Go to the free clinic. We have doctors who attend us in our private office.
As far as Republican politicians are concerned, except for themselves and their families, anyone who wants money needs to get a job and work for it. No matter if you're 80-years-old and/or infirmed, get a job. The only ones who receives most of the entitlements in this country are not the elderly, the sick, and the infirmed, but the politicians, their cronies, and their lobbyists. The rest of us can die of starvation for all they care about us.
Yet, inexplicably, when most of the country is elderly, infirmed, out of work, under employed, and poor, how do rich Republicans still get elected? Not only do the Republicans continue to be elected to office but also now they have control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Go figure. Go fish. Just go because the average, middle class and lower class American citizen will never get a helping hand from any of them.
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With that in mind, tired of being with a losing political party, Susan decided to turn Republican. For once she'd like to know what it feels like to turn her back on people. For once, she'd loved to walk by a homeless person while drinking her coffee and eating her donut and not put a nickel in their outstretched, empty, coffee cup.
"Get a job you homeless person," she'd love to yell. "I'm a proud Republican."
For once, she'd like to know what it feels like to have money because all the Republicans she knows have money while all of the Democrats she knows are poor.
"Okay, once I'm a Republican, the money should just start pouring in. All I have to do is to just have to stand here and wear my George W. hat and my Dick Cheney big button pin and any time now, other Republicans will hand me money for doing nothing other than being one of them."
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Instead of registering online as most people do, Susan hoped to speed up the process by appearing before the Pennsylvania Board of Elections in person.
"May I help you?"
The woman, who looked like she had been doing this job for 40-years, gave Susan the once over as if she was a whore or a stripper.
"Yes," said Susan to the female clerk behind the desk at Town Hall. "I'd like to register to vote in Pennsylvania. I moved here three years ago from Massachusetts and I thought I'd be here only temporarily."
As if she was a terrorist trying to subvert the voter registration laws, she looked at Susan with a face filled with suspicion.
"You can register to vote online," she said with obvious attitude, a toss of her head, and a shrug of her shoulders.
Obviously if Susan can register online, then what is she doing here bothering her? Apparently, in the way that politicians are public servants, elected officials who are here to serve the public, she was a hired Civil Servant. It's so oxymoronic to call those people who work for the government and who are elected to high political positions public servants when they are nothing more than thieves. Yet, with me exercising my right of freedom of speech, not all civil servants and politicians are thieves. I heard there's a civil servant in Fargo, North Dakota, and a politician in Cheyenne Wyoming who are not on the take.
"And you were registered to vote in Massachusetts?"
Susan looked at her and smiled.
"Yes, I am, but I was registered as a Democrat. Now, I'd like to change my party affiliation. I'd like to register to vote in Pennsylvania as a Republican now," she said. "I want to be with the winning team and the more powerful political party instead of being part of the losing team and the powerless political party. Go Republicans," she raised her hand in the air to cheer.
After telling her that she wanted to change her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, seemingly more accepting of Susan, the woman's look softened. After confessing to the woman that she wanted to be on the winning team and with the more powerful, political party instead of being part of the losing team and the powerless political party, the woman nearly smiled. It was apparent to Susan that this woman could very well be her first Republican friend.
"I see. Well, I can do that for you," said the woman. "Do you have identification?"
Yet, even though Susan was willing to become one of them, until she mentioned that she wanted to vote Republican, the woman looked at Susan as if she was a terrorist or trying to commit voter fraud. Perhaps it was her Boston accent that made the woman still look at her with suspicion.
"I do have identification. I have lots of identification. Here's my Massachusetts' Driver's license, my Social Security card, a credit card with my photo, my library card, and my Barbie Club membership card that I've had since I was a kid," said Susan.
Susan looked at the woman and gave her the best smile she could muster at a time when she was abandoning her beloved Democratic Party to become one of them, the users of money and the abusers of power. Inspiring her smile, Susan imagined herself standing upon the balcony of the Stock Market Exchange and ringing the bell in the tradition of all the superrich. She imagined herself finally sitting on the 50-yard-line during a football game instead of having to climb a mountain of stairs on her way to the cheap seats.
"Is that it?" The woman looked from her ID's to look up at her. "Is this all the identification that you have?"
Susan rummaged through her pocketbook with panicked confusion.
"Oh, wait. Here's my NRA card that I just received in the mail. Um, I also have pictures. I have pictures of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former NRA president, Charlton Heston, and beloved President Ronald Reagan," she said spreading out the four pictures on the desk.
