We are being bombarded with political ads with early voting underway, but even if you listen hard, you rarely get to actually learn anything about the candidates being discussed.
More specifically, we never seem to hear what a candidate will actually do to improve our daily lives. Candidates are focused on tearing down their opponents and talking about how bad they are, rather than telling us how they will govern and what their plans are.
All the messages we see are negative, and they are designed to condition the average voter to hate one candidate or the other. If a message does include anything at all about what the candidate will do, it is in snippets and offers no specifics.
It’s a sound bite world, and that is what our elections have become. They all want to leave a bad taste in our mouths about their opponent to be elected by default, and that is not what our government is supposed to be about.
We need some positivity and statesmanship to return to our political races.
The American people deserve better. When we Georgians are going to the polls to decide our governor and who will represent us in the U.S. Senate for the next six years, they should respect us enough to tell us why we should vote for them, not why we should hate the other guy.