We are all tired of the political ads. You would think the health insurance companies are members of Hitler’s SS. Obviously, if a campaign takes a dollar from one of them, they are unable to think for themselves. Let’s not take political ads seriously but rather look at their political platforms.
It is the political platform that defines them. While each person has their own views and no person agrees 100% with the political platform of their party, people should understand the platform. To a degree, every politician is beholden to the platform. Fortunately, the platforms of both major parties are available online for anyone to read, and they couldn’t be more strikingly different.
The Democratic platform has taken a radical shift to the “left.” It is no longer the moderate party of JFK and other luminaries. The party for the worker has been taken over by the coastal liberal elite and revolutionary. This is why you will not see the Democratic leaders denounce the violent protests. I would even venture to say that these people marching to “defund the police” are the base of the modern Democratic Party – revolutionary, lawless, and socialist. The Republican Party, for all its faults, has a strong America-first platform. The party supports law and order and believes that capitalism is the freest economic model, one that brings about prosperity and opportunity, something I think most local Democrats also desire. The Republican platform seeks dignity for all people and policies that reward hard work. The Republican platform is the more moderate platform today.
So, when you are deciding who to support, David Young vs. Cindy Axne, for example, consider their platforms, not what “dark money” group, PAC, or corporate “special interests” support them. Keep in mind these groups that donate to a campaign often donate to both sides because they want a favor from whomever wins or they donate to the one whose policies are most likely to help them. In other words, a donor gives to a campaign not to buy their support but because they want the person to win who naturally will likely support them. Consider instead the platform...one based on dividing America by identity politics based on perceived “haves” and “have-nots” or the one that puts America, all of America, first.