Voter's Guide for 2020

It's an unfortunate fact about our socio-political life that many people who vote don't really vote for the person who best represents their beliefs. Rather they vote on the basis of the candidate's looks, personality or simply because the candidate for whom they vote, whatever he or she stands for, isn't the other guy.

Whether we think a candidate is personable, or eloquent or virtuous the most important thing about him or her, aside from their integrity, are the policies they would implement. We should be primarily concerned not with their looks but with the direction they would take the country.

The choice in the next election is between candidates of one party which supports each of the following or makes each of the following more likely, and candidates of a party which opposes each of these. If you favor a majority of these measures then you should vote for Democratic candidates, if you oppose most of them you should not vote Democratic regardless of how attractive or otherwise appealing (or repugnant) a candidate is:

1. Lowering the voting age to 16.
2. Opposition to measures like voter ID and extending the voter franchise to non-citizens.
3. Adding additional Justices to the Supreme Court to ensure that SCOTUS decisions go the way the left wants them to go.
4. Appointment of judges and Supreme Court Justices who believe their role is to make law rather than objectively interpret the law and/or the Constitution.
5. Abolition of the electoral college.
6. Allowing felons to vote.
7. Granting statehood to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico thus effectively giving Democrats four more senators.
8. Allowing biological men to use girls' restrooms and locker rooms and compete against girls in scholastic athletics.
9. Making it a hate crime to speak out against the LGBTQ agenda, even from the pulpit.
10. Effective repeal of the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
11. Effective repeal of the Second Amendment guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms.
12. Protecting and promoting abortion on demand and infanticide.
13. Higher taxes and more government regulations on business and industry, stifling job growth and increasing unemployment among the poor.
14. Making fossil fuel industries like coal, oil and fracking economically unsustainable.
15. Abolition or deep curtailment of air and car travel.
16. Exorbitant social spending and a shift away from a capitalist to a socialist economy.
17. Providing subsidies for those who choose not to work.
18. Open borders.
19. Sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants.
20. Free health care and welfare for illegal aliens.
21. Racial preferences and "reparations."
22. A return to forced busing.
23. Weakening the military.
24. Abolition or weakening of police forces.
25. Effectively permitting rioters to burn businesses, churches and public buildings and threaten citizens with physical harm.
26. Obliteration of our historical heritage.
27. Keeping schools and businesses closed until there's a vaccine for Covid-19.
28. Making it more difficult for private schools to operate and for poor people to send their children to the schools of their choice.
29. Hostility, or at least antipathy, toward Jews and Christians.
30. Destroying the reputation and/or livelihood of anyone merely accused of sexual impropriety (except Joe Biden).
31. Destroying the reputation and/or livelihood of anyone who holds views on race relations and/or sexuality at variance with those on the left.

It may seem that some of these are unfair misrepresentations or exaggerations, but every one of them has been promoted, encouraged, tolerated or implemented by leaders in the Democratic party - presidential candidates, governors, senators, congresspersons, and/or influential members of the media.

Keep the list and see how many of them come to pass over the next four years if the Democrats win the White House and the Senate in November.