Political Life in the USA

Politics has become a life of its own. We have political elections today. I was not sent a ballot by mail this time so that if I wish to vote, I have to walk to the church next door which is the official place of balloting for this precinct. It is a hot day and while I have a sample ballot I have to decide if it that important for me to walk to the church to vote.

Since it is a church and one of the more fundamentalist type churches, I do not walk there to attend church services. I have recognized that I could do that anytime I wish, but it is a part of that group of evangelical type services that always annoys me instead of lifting me up as some prayers say.

So no matter whether it is a church service, or a government process, this church remains just another building as far as I am concerned. I have only ever used it for the purpose of voting.

Freedom of religious practices and of voting practices is a matter of choice. I probably may decide to walk there but I do not like realizing that the government is using ballot by mail as a means of testing people's so called civic responsibilities.

I have on occasion visited my neighbor's church when she has invited me to go to church services. She is a devout believer in her new found faith, and I am not. I have grown up on religious practices being forced down people's throats to the point that I believe that people who practice and teach Jesus are often no more than petty tyrants in their wrongful interpretation of scripture.

With politics, it is a seasonal game as well. I do see what is offered on the ballot since I received a sample ballot, but I do not like it that I did not receive a ballot by mail which my neighbor had received. I don't like government playing games with voting practices.

In this heat, it is not wise for anyone to be walking in the sun when it is going to be the hottest day in the year. The polls don't close til late so if I get there at all, it will be late in the day. I have other things to do.

I am sounding off! I prefer to stay free regarding both my religious life and my political life.

If I do go to vote, it will be because I have not forgotten that a single vote could be important, but basically we all know that we all get drowned in the list of numbers...and AZ is fundamentally a Republican Conservative state right now. The Democrats are taking the wrong sides on every issue as they only seem to know enough to be the opposite side...and frankly, America deserves better than the two party system of I am for it and I am against it!

So essentially, why bother?