Elections are purchased with advertising and promotion of a party’s or candidates ideas and promises. One party gets huge support from industries that pollute the environment, sell harmful or dangerous produces like tobacco, weapons of mass destruction and other instruments of violence and death, or industries that resist changes to cleaner and safer energy sources because they have so much invested in dangerous, dirty and decreasingly available energy sources.
These corporations want to have their party and candidates to protect their interests rather than those of the public or the country as a whole. Corrupt financial industries also look for champions in government who will fight regulation to regulate their profitable but harmful practices. Drug companies and Health insurance companies want their profitable practices to continue without legislation that would protect the public from corrupt practices and overpriced drugs.
Another party that wants to serve the needs of the public and individuals and who wants to stop old harmful and wasteful practices of the past needs the support of individuals and groups committed to better ways of running government and safeguarding the soil, air and water on which people depend for their survival.
If you don’t want to contribute to a party that is more committed to meeting your needs than to pandering to polluters, swindlers and exploiters of the public, then you can sit by and watch the opportunity for meaningful change to slip by.
The last election almost cleared the way for such changes but the too narrow margin of victory in the Senate has allowed those who represent the party that lost the last election to corrupt the political process and undermine all efforts to fulfil the platform the majority of Americans supported and still want and need.
Apathy and an unwillingness to continue to support what voters believe in could consolidate the position of the party of NO (the minority) so that progress will continue to be stymied by these corrupt politicians whose only solution to the problems facing the country is NO and no way.
Electing the people you want means putting your money where your heart and your mouth is. The alternative is too harmful to be allowed to take place.
If you fail to support what you really want now, you may be stuck with the alternative during the critical years ahead. Can you afford to allow that?