Despite my long held belief that illegal votes may have played a greater role in the 2008 Presidential election than trends within independent voters, since illegal voters have been declared off limits by Democrats, for obvious reasons, and Republicans have been rendered neutered with regards to offering any meaningful objection to non-citizens having the final say as to who is elected in this country, I turn my attention to the so-called independent voter.
Clearly the popularity in proclaiming oneself 'independent', reveals that it somehow makes the individual feel themselves to be a free-thinker and above the partisan squabbling of Republicans and Democrats. While in reality, it merely indicates that the independent voter has decided to base his or her vote upon factors that are entirely unimportant. Declaring yourself independent is to announce that you have no intention of casting your vote upon principal, ethics, or dare I say, right and wrong. This is not to say that the independent voter is without principles, ethics or a sense of right and wrong, it simply means that they have no intention of allowing them to influence their votes.
While still a preteen, the first political/social movement I observed was, a not so well disguised effort by the left, to label the concept of right and wrong as having no place in public discourse or the governing of our nation, and the second trend was an increase in the number of people which proudly stated, "I vote for the man, not the party". And through the years I found the very same type of person gravitating towards the ranks of the independent, and I do not believe this was coincidental. For the very next effort of the left was to successfully persuade the swelling ranks of independents that the Constitution read, "Freedom from religion", rather than "Freedom of religion", and that belief in a God, was, by definition, fanatical. And the ranks of the independents grew again. These were my first indications that those that claimed to be free-thinkers were simply, and quite lazily, abdicating their right to think. While I have come to expect an annoying amount of leftist which wish to fundamentally transform America, I find the ever increasing numbers of people voting on the basis of hair color, smile, likability, and whether they can lose themselves in the candidate's big brown eyes, grotesque and indicative of a population that is terrifyingly growing in the cognitively flat lined.
Sadly, I fear that the growing numbers of independents foretells smooth sailing for Obama's reelection, for the not so free, non-thinkers, are so easily manipulated by lies and soothsaying spewings which they will never bother to question, Obama will, once again, fool enough people. Realistically, how long can a free nation endure, when the number of people that can be fooled all the time dominate the electorate?
