Do Your Homework Before Voting Next Time

Ok, I’ve just got to say this.

I am angry at people who voted for Obama.  Some of my friends and family voted for him, people with intelligence and good hearts,  normally observant and thoughtful people.  But I’m frustrated with them because they didn’t do their homework when it came time to select a presidential candidate.

As American citizens, we have rights and responsibilities.  Many forget all about the responsibilities part of that phrase.  We have a duty to vote, and accompanying that duty is the obligation to educate ourselves so that we will choose wisely.

It is our duty as Americans to know what and whom we are voting for.

My dear ones, and many of yours too I suspect, fell down on their responsibilities.  They had preconceived notions–created by a media with a clear liberal bias–about the former president and his administration, and knew only that they “wanted a change.” They purposely refused to listen to all the facts about Obama.  These facts were available to all; his associations with self-avowed Marxists and Communists; with domestic terrorists and anarchists; with people who stood and publicly proclaimed their hatred of America–none of this was secret information.

It was public knowledge that his voting record was sparse for one thing, and the most liberal in the senate, both the Illinois and the US Senates.  When he wasn’t voting “present.”

Neither was it a secret that he admired Saul Alinsky and studied his writings, incorporating Alinsky’s tactics in his own community organizing “work.”

Really, nothing that is going on right now is a surprise to those of us who were paying attention and doing our duty as citizens.  We watched all different news reports about Obama.  We listened to him speak.  We read his own books, and other books written about him.  We knew our country’s history well enough to know that the far left has been trying to install socialism in this country for almost a century, and that it isn’t necessary to wear a tin-foil hat if you know this.  In fact, tin-foil hats go with those blinders that some choose to wear.

So, I’m pretty mad at some people right now.  No, not the kind of mad that they will ever realize.  But it quietly resides down inside, where I try to express it by writing, and by talking with other responsible American citizens, who did do their homework.

I believe that our country will survive this, and will be stronger for it.  For a while, more will be vigilant, and will work harder to inform themselves, to “study” for elections, and to watch what Congress does.

Though it’s harsh of me, I really hope that those who voted for Obama and contributed to this slow-motion coup on our freedoms, get to experience first-hand the results of their own lack of responsible citizenship.  Government-controlled healthcare, loss of choice, higher taxes and costs of the “insurance”–they will experience these just as the rest of us will.

The difference is they asked for it.  I didn’t.  And that’s the source of my anger at them.  Their dereliction of duty will affect all of us.

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