Voters – Professional Copywriter | Wyalusing, PA Bradford County

Voting: It’s a Privilege to Do the Right Thing

Despite jokes about dead people voting, election security is strong. It’s been quiet on the American front for many years now. Or so it seems. Even as I absorb the reality of observing three quarters of a century of a blessed life, I don’t think of myself as having lived through any great historical movements that dramatically changed the course of American life. Looking back, I guess when something is part of your past you don’t think [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-11-07T22:02:11+00:00November 7, 2022|Campaign Rhetoric, Constitution Rights, Elections, History, Politics, Uncategorized, Voting|

Terrorism Tamed to “Legitimate Political Discourse”

Does it? In a true Democracy, three Presidents since 1988 would have lost. In a simple system of majority rule, Mr. Biden’s thumping margin of more than seven million votes would have been the last word. For that matter, so would Hillary Clinton’s national margin of nearly three million votes in 2016: Mr. Trump would not have had a 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue address in which to barricade himself in 2020. — Jedediah Britton-Purdy in the January 2, [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-02-06T04:10:43+00:00February 6, 2022|Biden, Conservatives, Elections, Electoral College, Terrorism, Trump, Voter Fraud, Voting|

Reverting to a Tactic Born in the U.S.A.

Crying over unwelcome voters in Georgia. Our government is a union of all United States citizens. Everyone is a member. It is the way we organize to efficiently address problems that affect us all. It is the way we respond to disaster when isolated groups are impacted. And it is the only way ordinary citizens can stand up to powerful entities such as major corporations and bizarrely wealthy individuals that would otherwise treat us unfairly. — Ken [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:09:52+00:00April 14, 2021|Democracy, Voter Suppression, Voting, Water|

For Some with Opinions, Ignorance Is Bliss

Everyone seems to have an opinion, but we all can’t be right. The only sin we never forgive is a difference of opinion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson I prefer not to respond to comments about my blog on Facebook, favorable or otherwise, because I’ve made my point and others can say what they want. Maybe we’ll all learn something. Getting caught up in a debate with someone who seems to be living in an alternate universe is [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:09:56+00:00December 9, 2020|American History, Conservatives, Conspiracies, COVID-19, Democracy, Extremes, Fraud, Liberals, Opinions|

A Voter’s Journey through Five Decades of Change

Actually, every vote counts toward another vote— from the electors, who are members of the Senate, House of Representatives, and three from the District of Columbia. It was a compromise and it complicates the majority-rules premise. This is my last blog before election day, and more people have already voted than will vote, as my wife and I will, at their local polling places next Tuesday. Changing the minds of voters at this point is very unlikely [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:09:57+00:00October 28, 2020|Democracy, Elections, Electoral College, Fairness, History, Politics, Presidency, Sacrifices, Vietnam, Voting|

Partisanship: And Never the Twain Shall Meet

Forget that "more perfect union" our founders called for. It's us-versus-them from hereon in. To me it’s a little scary that everyone is so locked into political party regardless of what is right or wrong, true or false and moral or immoral. Where have all the nuances gone on what constitutes a Democrat or Republican? I think of myself as being a moderate, whether as a Democrat or Republican (and I’ve been both), but I don’t know [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:10:30+00:00February 12, 2020|American History, Congress, Conservatives, Donald Trump, Elections, Jim Crow, Liberals, Newspapers, Obama, Patriotism, Politics, Presidency, Social Issues, Vietnam|

Are Conservatives and Liberals Really So Far Apart?

Far right and far left? Just far apart. Why do conservative Republicans see themselves as common-sense candidates, depicting those with so-called liberal views as “the radical left?” Why do liberal Democrats see themselves as more sensitive and caring, dismissing those with more conservative agendas as “the radical right?” The truth is that a conservative Republican is no further to the right than a liberal Democrat is to the left. The typical liberal Democrat and conservative Republican in [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:10:30+00:00January 25, 2020|Campaign Rhetoric, Compromise, Congress, Conservatives, Extremes, Liberals, Politics, Radical Left, Radical Right|

Fact-Checking More Important Than Ever to Voters

I didn’t get out much the last half of February and much of March so, as I recovered from my surgery. I watched a lot of television, read a lot of news and opinions. Much of it was fueled by people campaigning for president, and its tough to sort through the bombardment so many self-serving lies and exaggerations. It’s as if politics itself has become reality television, which means it isn’t real at all. Two of Donald Trump’s adult [...]

By Jeremy21|2022-01-24T09:10:39+00:00June 8, 2016|Discrimination, Elections, Fact Checking, Fairness, Politics|