Vote

So today is election day where the direction of our state and our country follows for at least the next couple years will be determined.  In Florida there are two big decisions to be made, an amendment permitting widespread medical marijuana use and who is going to be the Florida governor for the next four years.

Medical marijuana to me is a no brainer.  Marijuana/hemp is truly one of nature’s miracle plants.  In addition to it’s mood altering and medicinal applications, hemp can be used to make fabric, food, and even paper.  The biggest opposition to medical marijuana are cigarette and pharmaceutical companies.  They have literally spent  millions upon millions of dollars trying to brainwash the fickle Florida voters into voting against something that could help so many people.

To allow alcohol to be sold at the local grocery store, which by all accounts impairs the same or more than marijuana without any upside is just silly in my opinion.  Unfortunately the public has proven time and again that they are susceptible to fear mongering so it is utilized again and again by political strategists to play mind games with potential voters who are too lazy or apathetic to make their own informed decisions.

Then we have the governors race, a race where I have clearly made my opinions known.  Rick Scott has once again reached deep into his pockets to pepper the media with endless Charlie Crist smear ads.  I laughed out loud when I heard one spot playing on local radio, it was two younger sounding women discussing the governors race.  The discussion basically can be summarized like this.  “Yea Rick Scott is sort of a tool but at least I have a job.  When Charlie Crist was governor I lost my job.  I don’t want to lose my job again so I guess I have to vote for Rick Scott”  It was clearly aimed at light thinkers and the simpletons that basically know nothing about the world around them.

Scott is using the national recession and recovery to influence the public in disingenuous ways.  He likes to throw Florida’s economic woes it suffered along with the rest of the nation  squarely on the back of Charlie, who was the governor during the worst of it.  Likewise, Rick likes to step out in front and claim personal responsibility for Florida’s recovery which again has been a nationwide climb.

Charlie Crist supports common good principals like climate change, gay marriage, medicaid expansion, medical marijuana, higher minimum wages, and more.  Scott does not support these things and prefers to focus on areas that bring the most wealth to his personal fortune and the others that pay him for influence.  How does a man making 160k a year as the Florida governor increase his net worth roughly 60 million dollars in one year (2012) while in office?  You can connect the dots.

Unfortunately once again this election has proven that money is the most important quality of all a candidate can possess.  It is estimated that 3.7 BILLION dollars has been spent on the 2014 elections. That is utterly disgusting.  You can thank the Supreme Court for that.

On a national level, the big drama is if the democrats will also lose the senate majority.  Again it would be disappointing if they did but in the big picture would not significantly change what has already been going on, nothing.  Nothing will change, nothing will get done, and those at the top of our society will be cackling away from their balconies, delirious with joy about just how masterfully they have manipulated this country they call home.  Fck everyone else as long as I get mine…..