I am a casual sports fan. Living in one of the “Boston States” I root for the Patriots (fall) and the Red Sox (spring and summer). Should either team make the Super Bowl or the World Series I will watch the games. There is no way that I will ever root for the New York Yankees.
We also have a lot of voters who vote the same way. They will vote for their party no matter what. And they would never vote for that other party, no matter what.
For sports fans, it doesn’t matter much. Rooting for one team or the other doesn’t affect anything important.
For voters, this attitude is destructive of our democracy. We vote in crooks and dimwits, and fail to vote for decent intelligent public spirited candidates.
To be a patriotic voter you have to do a little homework, such as who is running and what have they done in the past that is honorable, or dishonorable. You want to vote for the good guys and vote against the bad guys. In this day and age of the Internet the home work is easy to do. Google will tell you who is running, nationally and for state office, and give you the candidate’s history and voting record.
There is a crucial midterm election coming up in about three weeks. The current Democrat administration is a bunch of weak and elderly men and is driving America into the ground. We need to vote them out. Vote in some decent people who might be able to pull the country up before all that is left is a smoking crater.
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