By Michelle DeWitt
This past Tuesday was a major election day throughout the country, as primaries were held to determine who will represent the Dems and the GOP in November’s elections. At this point, we are just beginning a summer full of campaigning and I am already annoyed.
Everyone loves drama. The media thrives off it and politicians will spoon feed it to them throughout their entire campaign. Something about election season turns all of the politicians and talking heads into teenage girls in the middle school cafeteria.
Take the state of California for instance, where Democratic nominee Jerry Brown makes a comparison between his opponent, Meg Whitman, and the notorious Nazi, Joseph Goebbels. The point he was trying to illustrate was that throughout her campaign, Whitman will use propaganda to smear his name. And to make this point, it would only make sense for him to compare her to a Nazi. And of course, calling her a Nazi is nothing like her saying bad things about him. Oh wait…..it is. But don’t worry Jerry Brown, everyone is so distracted by your Nazi reference they’ll miss the hypocrisy.
This idiocy is one of millions of examples of the shameful smear campaigns that plague any election. And then they wonder why people don’t vote. Brown thinks that his opponent will accuse him of being a child molester and so he called her a Nazi. So, if you live in California your options for governor are either a child molester or a Nazi. Are you excited to cast your vote yet?
Obviously, there are a lot of reasons why people don’t vote, but the negativity and drama is certainly one of them. So, politicians if you’re listening, knock it off. Stop making Nazi comparisons and talking about people’s sex life. Talk about the real issues because in case you’re not aware, we have a lot of them these days.
Tags: dems, elections, GOP, Nazis, Politics, sex
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