I read a compelling statement in Lisa's article on an independent's perspective on voting. In that article, Barb convinced me to seriously consider voting for my favorite choice regardless of whether he/she is the Republican or Democrat nominee.

We've all heard the arguments against wasting the vote before. It's a typical ends justifies the means type argument. "If you don't vote for either the Republican or Democrat candidate, you will have no say in the outcome of the election. One of those two candidates WILL be elected, and your vote will have been wasted." Granted. But let's discuss reasons why we SHOULD waste our vote.

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Since I had the right to vote, I have viewed politics from afar. Politics have never really interested me in the least, mainly because I observed it as run-around and empty promises. I have found it hard to follow, or keep interested in laws and bills, campaigns or slam ads. Politics is just not my forte.

However, with the recent presidential election going on right now in the United States, (yes, I am completely disregarding the upcoming Canadian election) I cannot help but stick my nose in this business, and here is why. It is pop culture if it's anything.

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As a political conservative, I’ve written previously about how thrilled I was that John McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin as his vice president. (See Culture Feast article I Finally Have a Horse in the Race.) I wasn’t the only one who was excited by his choice. McCain’s poll numbers enjoyed a bounce after the announcement. Donors infused money into his campaign.

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Check this out. Disclaimer: this is intentional comedy. Don't take this seriously. I'm saddened that I have to say that. As you were.

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My good friend, Barb, bakes four loaves of bread for her family every weekend because she doesn’t trust the additives and chemicals in store bought bread. Even though she’s a nurse and works in the health industry, she doesn’t take her daughters to the doctor unless she absolutely has to because her pediatrician always tries to pressure her to get her girls vaccinated against HPV (Human Papilloma Virus).

She makes her own soap because she doesn’t like the detergents and chemicals found in the bars you buy at the grocery store. In other words, Barb is an independent, do-it-yourself kind of woman who is mistrustful of many things most people think are okay.

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One of the things that makes it hard for me to support any politician is that despite what they say on the campaign trail, none of them can truly deliver what they promise.  The reasons are vast and someday I will blog more about that.  What I want to do right now is talk about the change that I believe would be good for America.

The first and probably the most important one is our current tax code. Our tax system has been written in a way that makes it confusing and I believe that it is done deliberately.  No one likes to pay taxes and we all wish that they were lower, however, there are some government programs that are essential and without tax revenue it would be impossible to fund those programs.

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I’m not a political blogger. It isn’t that I don’t care about politics, or that I am uninformed, there are just many other people who do it much better than I ever could. I usually steer clear of the topic in my blogs, and recently I have had to steer clear of it in my everyday conversation. I don’t care if you don’t agree with me. This is how I see the facts from my perspective. On the flip side of that, I may not agree with you, but as long as you have made an informed and educated choice, we can get along. Now what I am running into these days are people that are making their choices based off of ignorant statements and misinformation.

I have sat at my lunch table and heard co-workers voice their political views, and I have been sick to my stomach. Their comments have been so ignorant and clueless, it just made me sad. You know I might agree that said candidate isn’t a good choice, but I’m not going to agree with you or even give your argument credibility by discussing it with you. I just won’t go there. I’m not sure where some people get their information, or if they just blindly believe anything people on TV tell them, but it just makes my head hurt.

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