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Charles Lee encourages us to vote on actual issues rather than image or rhetoric. The problem is, I don’t know enough about almost all the issues.
It’s very difficult to vote on issues. We would all like to say we vote on issues, but really its difficult for the President to have a good understanding of all the issues. The President has hundreds of advisors. We only have the internet.
The fact is, most of the issues are much too complex for individual decisions to really understand. The issue of “trickle-down” economics is still debated between PhDs in economics… and that economic policy relates directly to whether or not we should cut taxes, raise them, or who we should tax and how much. So how am I supposed to vote for McCain or Obama based on taxes as an issue? It’s impossible. Completely impossible.
Foreign policy is the same. So many countries, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, N Korea, China, Russia, Georgia… so many leaders… so many different types of politics and different interest groups within those countries. How is any one person supposed to really know who is right or wrong on these issues? The President will really be relying on hundreds of foreign policy advisors to make decisions. We as individual voters don’t have that luxury. Let’s not be arrogant and think that we know more than people who have spent their lives becoming experts in this field. If the experts disagree, there’s no way I can know. We cannot vote on this issue.
So what’s left? Character? How can you get to know someone’s character by watching them give speeches or do interviews? Impossible. There are a lot of people that I’ve known for years and I can’t say that I really know their characters. How can I know Obama’s or McCain’s? Let’s not be arrogant and judge from a few interviews and debates.
All I have left are a few social/morality issues. So that’s usually how I vote.
