We have, as a nation, seemingly become a two-party game, where you either take sides or get left voting for an independent with (generally) a tiny chance of winning.  We have divided, and are being conquered as a seething mass of political confusion, where the candidate that gets the best press coverage wins.  This is wrong, fundamentally and in respect with the constitutional framework this country was founded on.

When you stop voting for the candidates at least somewhat based on what they stand for, you get terrible candidates that mess up things for everybody, regardless of party lines.  We see good, well-qualified candidates get sidelined in favor of the candidate with the best hair. We get terrible politicians who got where they got by cut-throat betrayals and schmoozing. And yet, we keep voting them in.

It’s time to stop playing the political game by what color their party is, by whether they lean left or right, or who gave the most for favorable coverage.  Actually look at their records,  and vote for who will lead our cities, states, and nation for better.