In the last week before the midterms the ads get pretty crazy on both sides, and I admit to being particularly harsh on offenses of advertising on the Democrat side - my own side.
Mostly I think it pretty much goes without saying that the ads run by the conservative side are offensive, irresponsible, deceptive, harmful to the national interest, full of lies, especially harmful to the interests of the non-rich of all races, religions, and ethnicities, sometimes disgusting, and often frightening.
And next Tuesday the wife and I, white seniors both and both on Medicare (and she's retired and on Social Security), will make the trek to the correct poling place, the same one it's been for decades, produce a current and valid Pennsylvania driver's license, and vote the straight Democratic ticket.
If nothing else, recall that both Goldwater and Reagan opposed Medicare as communism and said it would destroy our liberty and create totalitarianism in America, and that's pretty much what the old conservatives said about Social Security in 1935.
And remember that Ryan, Paul, Cruz, and the whole conservative movement are on a self-proclaimed mission to repeal every single progressive innovation since TR's time.
The wife and I will remember, anyway.
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