Please use intelligence when voting
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Editor,
To the undecided and independents: you will decide the next make up of our state’s political leaders and national representatives. You are the ones that determine our collective voice. Please be responsible and use your voice through your ballot.
A Montana impartial political historian has found that neither the Republican nor Democrat party can win a statewide election and implement their plans without your support. Locally, however that is not the case.
The Republican power to control gerrymandering has canceled the idea of one-person one-vote much the same way the Electoral College does. Dividing our state into districts based on political ideology rather than common lifestyles, population or size has created the same effect at that level. But, statewide elections are still determined by popular vote numbers. Every vote counts.
Consider for yourself which candidate represents the America you want us to save or become. Look at which candidates lack the integrity to stand as individuals or tout their favoritism by supporting whatever their party or current president does, lacking the character or the ability to stand up when we no longer function as our founders believed our government should. Ignored but continuing will they again help create autocratic leadership, payola buying government positions, party conformance rather than disagreement?
Trump has decried the fore coming of a Biden presidency yet today we have division, hatred, voter suppression, race issues, lack of faith in our law enforcement, riots, nearly 200,000 dead from a disease he dismisses in public and there is a list of so many other things that were born and exist under his watch.
People do have the ability and intelligence to see, to escape the herd mentality others exhibit, to listen openly to both sides of a debate, to find real answers to questions, and more importantly, to vote not tied to a party unity but to the concept that behavior matters. Current behavior cannot be overlooked in this election. Our future is at stake. Please use your skills, knowledge, openness and concern for all of us – cast your ballot.
Rich Bell
Polson
