Get out and vote

Regardless of your political leanings or your personal feelings about the candidates, I encourage all of you to go vote.  I try to ignore people who bitch and whine online about the state of the country, but if I know that they didn’t vote then there really is no reason to listen to them. 

Rejoice, the 2016 Election is almost over!

Of course, the years of bitching about the outcome are about to start, but let’s leave that until Wednesday.

The real point of this blog is that – as with elections for the past few years – the Kindle version of Political Pies, my collection of forty stories with a political theme, will be free to download today through Election Day.  So grab it now and it will give you something to read while you wait in line at your polling place, or reward yourself with a free ebook after voting.  The choice is yours.

Voting your conscience

Let’s be honest, few people are really happy with the choice between Clinton and Trump.  So there is a lot of talk about how you should vote your conscience and vote for a third party candidate.  Now voting for the candidate who shares your views sounds like a good idea, but is it really practical?  If there was only one issue in an election, then you could have a candidate who supports it, one who opposes it, and maybe one who says more thought needs to be put into it.  But that’s not the real world.  There are hundreds of issues in an election covering everything from foreign policy, to economic and social issues.  There’s no way two, or three, or even a dozen candidates could cover all the bases.  So either there needs to be hundreds of candidates to cater to every political subfaction there is, or some subfactions will just have to accept that instead of voting for someone who shares all of their views they will have to compromise and vote for a candidate who only shares some of their views.

I wonder how many people would agree with that, as long as it meant that other political subfactions had to compromise but not their own?