The LuLac Edition #4,426, October 28th, 2020

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Through the years I have chewed the fat with many people who had different views. As a registered Democrat I even voted for a few Republicans.  Prior to Donald Trump, most of my discussions with Republicans have been civil because we all had common ground. Not so much anymore. I can honestly say there are only handful of people in the GOP who I can have a conversation with. One of them is Jim O'Meara who gives us an insight into this election and where and why he stands with Joe Biden instead of Mr. Trump. 

 

 

Signs Don’t Vote

 

It’s less than a week before the Presidential Election. The last thing you probably want to read about right now is politics. The last person you want to hear from is yet another someone telling you who to vote for. If you don’t vote their way, they warn, our nation will collapse, your rights will evaporate, your neighborhood will burn, the dryer will eat your socks, the damned cat will leave a hairball in your shoe, and so on. Pretty much any catastrophe you can imagine awaits you no matter who gets your vote.

You’re sick of it all.

I’m sick of it too.

Let’s talk instead about your street.

If it’s like mine, there’s more than a few yard signs for our Presidential candidates planted in your neighbor’s lawns.

What do those signs portend for the election? Are you ready for the answer?

Not a hot-damned diddly thing.

Why?

Signs don’t vote. People do. Signs simply tell you how your neighbor plans to vote. In most elections that might mean something. It might move the needle a little if you’re on the fence: “Hey, Joe’s voting Jimbo Billy Bob for dog catcher! I like Joe! Joe’s a smart fellow! He must know something I don’t! Maybe I’ll vote Jimbo Billy Bob too!”

I don’t know if it that applies this time out. If you plant some yard signs right now, that might motivate your neighbor to avoid you at all costs. (If you hate your neighbors, consider leaving them planted until spring. Quality alone time!).

Instead of paying attention to the signs this election, do what I’ve been doing: count the yards with NO signs. There’s a hot-damned LOT of them. They vastly outnumber yards with signs.

When I was involved in politics, it was a fair guess that a pretty good chunk of those sign-less yards were in front of houses where the occupants had no intentions of voting at all (especially in primaries).

This time out, I don’t think that’s the case.

We’ve had pandemics, crashing economies and there’s probably plagues of frogs or locusts ahead (just before the asteroids strike).

Nothing motivates people to vote like a good old fashion bag of crises, especially when they’ve been penned up for months. With their families. No escape. No bourbon. No toilet paper. Did I mention no bourbon?

Those naked lawn folks are voting this time, gang. And we haven’t got a clue who they’re voting for.

Which brings us back to you.

With both political parties hammering away incessantly about the utter disaster awaiting us if we vote for the other guy …and with your naked-yard neighbors adding nothing to the conversation …how do you decide who to vote for?

Here’s my advice: Don’t vote for/against a candidate because you like/hate them. How you personally feel about a candidate (here it comes again) doesn’t mean a hot-damned diddly thing.

You’re not just voting for that person. You’re voting for the direction they’re going to take the country in over the next four years. Ask yourself which version of America you want to live in during that time. That is how you decide. It’s not easy. Nothing worthwhile is. Choose wisely.

I’ll leave you with one last thought: The most hot-damned important thing this Election Day is your vote. Vote for the version of America you want to live in for the next four years.

And remember: signs don’t vote.

You do.

Be good to each other.

 

 

O'Meara was a candidate for School Board and State Representative and was a two time GOP Chair in two different districts. Here he is with DA Salavantis.

James O’Meara Sr. is a recovering politico who chaired 2 GOP districts in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. He is currently and forever out of organized politics. His shoe size is 10 ½. He has an annoying tendency to write about himself in the third person. He has a Biden sign in his yard this time out. If that influences your decision one way or the other, you’ve missed the damned point.