with Anthony Newcombe
October 24, 2024
This month’s topic
DON’T YOU THINK THE ELECTION PROCESS IS TAKING TOO MUCH ENERGY, TIME (AND CASH) FROM OUR LIVES?
I don’t know about you, but I am more than a bit concerned about the time, effort and patience, etc. that are tossed upon us during the extended process demanded of us to participate in. I get it, we are doing our civic duty, and we care tremendously about the success of the country. That said, what more can we be asked of/ demanded to do here?
DONATION TEXTS
Why are most of my new texts for donations? Is there NO AMOUNT of money that will fill the political bucket? Record numbers have been donated up til now, but you’d think all the candidates were dead broke. What is that all about? I mean, do we need to start funding the issues ourselves, or what?!
I haven’t seen a piece of “wanted mail” in many months. All that appears is “candidate mail” – vote for this guy, that guy, this initiative, that initiative, blah blah blah. Face it, it’s just tons of extra paper for my shredder to slice and dice up.
COMMERCIALS
There were probably reruns of the same commercial 3-4 times in minutes interrupting a sports event I really wanted to watch. Why? Don’t they know we got the message once or twice? Do we need all these stimuli? We’re not busy enough?!
RALLIES
Have you ever seen so many rallies going on?! It’s impossible to keep track of them all these days. And who is keeping track of all the messaging? It looks to me like some of the rallies are doing some things that may be, shall we say, illegal …
MY FINAL VERDICT
In a nutshell, I think we have gotten a little too romantic looking at our candidates. We need to rein in some of the fantasy and refocus on some of the more obvious issues that need attention right here and right now!
Your turn now. What do YOU think can be done? 🙋
Hope your fall season is off to a great start! 🍁
-A.N.
PROFILE
Anthony Newcombe is a 4-time entrepreneur, published author & narrator, and full-stack web developer. He can be reached via our CONTACT PAGE for appearances.