Voting Loud

     I have my own theory about why voters are turning out in record numbers for this year's mid-term elections. Both parties have gotten into a lazy habit of labeling their opponents instead of listening, reacting, instead of reasoning. In logic it resembles the "straw man" fallacy where, instead of arguing with your opponent's actual position, you argue with one you yourself have substituted. Although our modern version is even lazier, we simply build the straw man and throw rocks at it. Apparently the glue that holds these labels on is made from the brain cells of those attaching them. Early in his campaign, Donald Trump, for no apparent reason, was labeled a racist. There were probably millions of racist labels left over from the Obama years, when anyone who opposed Obama's election or policies was called racist. I'm all for recycling, but reusing presumptions that were never valid in the first place is like making a casserole out of spoiled leftovers.
    I said all that to say this, I think voters are turning out to send a clear message--we are not racists. We like what our president is doing for our country. Most presidents don't even attempt to keep their campaign promises until their second term. Trump has torn through them like a to do list. I had  "yuge" doubts about Trump, but great admiration for those he chose to advise him. Proverbs 13:20 says, "He who walks with wise men will become wise." But it is hard to express support for anyone with a "racist" label stuck over your mouth, so now, in the privacy of the voting booth, we are making ourselves heard. This election, we are voting loud.