Please don't vote only on emotion. Watching the RNC and now the DNC, I know many people of our nation will vote by "emotion." That alone is not sufficient enough to make sound judgement on a ballot. Vote on logic, reason, and history. That might be to much work for some of you. So I challenge you, I'll try (because of my insanely packed schedule) to help you out. My first reading is of Alexis de Tocqueville's - "Democracy in America."
*Your homework for this session is to find out who he is and what he did during his age of life. Also, what this book is about!
Since we are at difficult times in our democratic-yet-not-so-democratic country's state of affairs today, I'll start off by what Mr. de Tocqueville has said about heads of government. It reigns true today as it did many years ago. Here it is: "On my arrival in the United States I was surprised to find so much distinguished talent among the subjects, and so little among the heads of government." I know many persons who would probably do a better job as a president than what they do in business, work, and life. Yet they choose not too and that is their freedom. Next, he says - "It is a well authenticated fact, that at the present date the most able men in the United States are very rarely placed at the head of affairs, but it must be acknowledged that such has been a result in proportion as democracy has outstepped all its former limits." Again, reiterating my former explanation. Finally he says - "The race of American Statesman has evidently dwindled most remarkably in the course of the last 50 years." I somewhat agree, especially during this stage of our political history. He goes on to say next by addressing this phenomenon. That it maybe the intelligence of the people (or lack thereof), and that this needs to be raised to a certain level in the people. He says that "...the human mind can never be instructed and educated without devoting a considerable space of time to those objects."
I challenge you. I hope within the next few weeks you can follow me and you can find out truth for yourself. This is just one of the many sources I based my truth, logic, reason, and some of my emotion on. I hope you can raise your knowledge (there are many forms of intelligence), by learning more before you cast that vote in the next few months.
