My decision over which political party I was going to be for was pretty much made as soon as I can remember seeing TV ads. I remember who my dad was for and pretty much always sided with him because that is how I was raised and what our family stood for in beliefs. Now, being older and having time to weight all the decisions and see how the world works, I still pull for the same side, but every election season I will watch keenly to see who is doing the most mudslinging during the political season.
It seems that now there really isn’t anything off limits to a politician, and they will spew anything they want to about an opponent, which always makes me watch in a little bit of disbelief that society has gotten so ruthless. There is nothing that an opponent won’t say about another opponent, and the end goal is only to see who wins! It just doesn’t make sense to me.
But nevertheless, it is an entertaining time to watch all this go on, and then be able to – in a matter of a couple days – see what the outcome will be. This goes hand-in-hand with my thought that people are much nastier to people now than they were years ago. For a generation that has been raised on texting instead of talking, I guess it is all that you can expect.