VOTE: COMMON GOOD TAKES UNCOMMON GOOD SENSE

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A joke about a doctor goes like this:

“Doctor, it hurts when I do this?”

“Don’t do that,” says the doctor.

Hilarity ensues. Take my wife, please.

America runs on the same theme. When the rest of the world points to a sore spot and says it hurts, Dr. America says, “Don’t do that.”

From Bush the younger’s identification of the Axis of Evil, no relationship to the Axis Powers of WWII, to the longest war in U.S. military history, the sore spot doesn’t always get better on it’s own.

So it gets an operation. And like any medical procedure we schedule we want to know about in-network-insurance authorized-and necessary for improved life.

That’s why we vote, in the long run. The short run is another story.

Vote for the short run candidate to come shake things up and leave, one who declares themselves “Not A Career Politician” and you might get one liking the gig enough to run for re-election while sleeping in their office for their career cred.

Time goes by and they get more mainstream every year until they finally get the big picture: the more others screw up, the more chances they can take. But more chances means more deals with money people who finance elections.

Sleeping in the office is enough to pull the big bucks, so is the desire to not live where they come from.

Vote for the long run candidate and you’ll choose one who already sounds mainstream. As long as the vote goes toward a common good, check that box. Instead of voting for candidates who represent ideological behavior, why not take a chance on a common good candidate.

Vote the common good with an idea of where conservative and liberal identification began. History generally agrees that the Magna Carta was the first document to officially agree to lighten up on ‘the people.’ Seems the peasantry had enough royal rules and wanted to change a few things.

The nobility wanted to ‘conserve’ their power, while the people wanted a more liberal interpretation. In this understanding the rich people subjugated the farmers and shop keeps and craftsmen to the point of Magna Carta. And their voice was heard.

When it’s enough to call on uncommon common sense, it’s time to vote in 2018.

Dirty water needs cleaning; dirty air needs scrubbing; unwanted children need a boost; unwilling mothers need a choice; workers need to get paid; roads paved, bridges made; bad gun owners need shame; keep bad money out of the game; live an open book life; be true to your wife; leave your kids out of professional strife.

My Magna Carta