{"id":5308,"date":"2016-04-22T19:35:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T23:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2016-04-22T20:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:19:52","slug":"a-touchy-subject-that-i-tend-to-avoid-like-the-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2016\/04\/22\/a-touchy-subject-that-i-tend-to-avoid-like-the-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"A touchy subject that I tend to avoid like the plague&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now seeing political ads in my state of Indiana, I think it&#8217;s time to talk about something I tend to steer clear from. And that&#8217;s politics.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m an Independent. As in, I vote for no one. Because whoever they get in is going to be a career politician. But now, the 2016 Presidential election is troubling to say the least.<br \/>\nWe got a businessman, who&#8217;s also an insane wall-builder(Trump). We got a typical career politician(Cruz)(who seems to be the only one to stop the businessman). And lastly we got the underdog who&#8217;s seems to be fairly popular(Kasick).<\/p>\n<p>And then we got the Democrats. First, Ms &#8220;honestly, I don&#8217;t know where those files went!&#8221; (Hillary). And Mr &#8220;I will give Americans all of these things for free&#8230;I just won&#8217;t tell them they have to pay for them via their taxes!&#8221;. Mr &#8216;FeelTheBern&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>As an Independent, I get to go with either party. Yet I haven&#8217;t voted in over a decade. Used to be able to vote, but it expired on me. I understand I can re-establish my right to vote, yet why bother? To &#8220;have a voice&#8221;, has no meaning in this corrupted &#8220;greed makes the world go &#8217;round&#8221; country I live in. And if I had the means, I would had moved to Canada and said &#8220;FUCK YOU!!&#8221; to both parties! Because it seems moving to Canada is the only option to &#8216;vote for no one&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But I haven&#8217;t gone over my opinions of the candidates yet. Though that&#8217;s such a touchy subject in this day and age; with being attacked or worse&#8230;shot to death for having an opinion that&#8217;s different than someone else&#8217;s. But, I might as well start here.<\/p>\n<p>Am I against Trump? Yes. Yes I am. He&#8217;s going to be a very serious problem if he becomes president. Of course, most of my feelings against Trump were influenced by the media. But it&#8217;s also the way he acts, especially against disabled people (like that reporter). He doesn&#8217;t feel like &#8216;President material&#8217; to me. He acts like a businessman (and an unfunny clown), and has literally brainwashed his supporters into attacking anyone against him.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen all of the media reports of Trump&#8217;s rallies, of a random protester being beaten black and blue over being against him.<\/p>\n<p>But Cruz, he&#8217;s &#8230;. I don&#8217;t want another career politician as the President either! I&#8217;ll admit, Trump was actually right for calling him &#8216;Lyin&#8217; Ted&#8217;. This is why I don&#8217;t even bother with voting. Because no matter who I vote for, someone I hate will get in.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; in order to keep Trump out of the White House, I&#8217;m literally forced to vote for Cruz. As the commercial that I just saw went, the math doesn&#8217;t lie. Indiana&#8217;s Primary is May 3rd. I will&#8230;support Cruz. But ONLY to keep Trump out! I refuse to go any further than that.<br \/>\nWhat kills me is everytime a presidential hopeful wins a state, they&#8217;re all &#8220;Thank you, (state here)!! I will never forget you!&#8221; I call BS. As soon as they win the presidency, they&#8217;ll forget alllll about those delegates, and it&#8217;ll be &#8216;business as usual&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now seeing political ads in my state of Indiana, I think it&#8217;s time to talk about something I tend to steer clear from. And that&#8217;s politics. Now I&#8217;m an Independent. As in, I vote for no one. 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