Election 2012: Final Thoughts (Commentary)

This election has been analyzed to death by so many people I almost didn't write this blog.  The problem is I am compelled to by the simple fact that I'm worried.   I'm worried that America is about to make another mistake in the same way they did when they elected George W. Bush into the White House, not just once, but twice.  For me this election is about two colliding ideologies.  But don't be fooled.  It's not about the size of government.  Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan keep shouting that they want to decrease the size of our government.  That's not what they want.  They just want government to stand back and let corporations and markets make profits without consequences.  They want the government to let free markets run wild without any guidelines.  There's a reason we have traffic laws and that's because if we didn't a lot of drivers would be killed.  This same rule should be applied to our economic institutions. Yet when it comes to women's heath, same-sex marriage, voting rules, censorship, unions and a whole lot of other issues Romney and his Republican ilk do want big government, they just want it to protect different parts of what they define as American by limiting the population's free will.  Democrats aren't really interested in big government they just realize that in a complicated world government is necessary.  If anything they want an efficient government, not a big one.  This is an election where billionaires are trying to buy the election once again, spending huge sums of money to back any candidate that represents their interests (and they have the gall to say special interests are ruining this country).  It's not that these rich people are evil it's just that they're blinded by their own unique perspective.  They've isolated themselves from society and no longer see those with less money in the same way.  They feel it's unfair that Obama wants to tax them more, when we've had a progressive tax system in place for sometime now and it just needs to be re-adjusted.  No one likes to be attacked and so they are fighting back.  So for this election its a choice between two wealthy men.  One is a lawyer who has spent his whole life fighting for the common man, a man who is highly educated and believes that when times are tough we all need to stick together.  The other is a business man who has spent his whole life making big profits, playing with lives by breaking up and rebuilding companies for success and failure, a man that loves his country and has helped many friends and neighbors as a good Christian yet believes we the people must fight for ourselves.   One man believes in the idea of many to help the individual and the other believes in the individual helping themselves is the only way to help the many.   Both men are good men but one stands firm for what he believes in and the other flip flops and lacks consistency.   I trust one and fear the other.   Barack Obama for me is a great President because he will always fight for everyone and represent all our interests.  I have no doubt that Mitt Romney is the kind of guy who will fight for whoever will stand for what he believes in, which is a murky interchangeable question mark.   That's not a President we deserve and that's why I will be voting for President Barack Obama tomorrow.  If Obama loses I don't think our country is doomed but I do think Romney will lead this country toward a future where corporations and the wealthy play by different rules than the rest of us.  That's not fair and that's not American and that will destroy the spirit of this county in ways that will take decades to repair.