It’s election day and unless you’ve been living on the planet Mars, you know this because: 

A. You’re a good civic-minded citizen and you mark it on your calendar.

B. It’s been on everyone’s lips for months.

It may be a combination of both but more likely the latter. No recent midterm has gotten as much wall-to-wall coverage as this one. A tidal wave of change is predicted with the Republicans(coined by the media as being on life support) winning the House of Representatives and ending the death panels that were going to kill your granny. For the record the death panels never existed but that and other lies will send many to the voting booth angry and wanting change. Change to what though? Careful of the Tea Party, many of their candidates have extreme ideas or no ideas at all. Careful of the Republicans, they will at any cost stick to their talking points even if it could do the country, and by default you, some good. Admittedly I’m a liberal and believe in many of the things that the Democratic Party has done. As someone who was laid off for several months, I want to personally thank them for fighting for unemployment benefits, I could not have made it without those benefits. What I don’t like is how timid they can be about the things they’ve done. Bragging is in order when you’ve done good things. It seems they were asleep through much of the summer when all this anger was building and woke up September to find  they might get voted out of office. Alas all any of us can do in the grand scheme of things is vote and vote with a conscience, not anger.

Posted by Libergirl