Hey Joe Six-pack. The very survival of The United States of America is in your hands this November. Some seriously pivotal issues will be decided by this election. So wake up! It's not a popularity contest. The bickering and arguments you are so sick of hearing, that you decry as "bitter partisanship," mark the front lines of the culture war whose outcome will determine whether you are still fit for self-government, which forms the very foundation of your FREEDOM!
Ideology matters.
For example, does the government allow us to live a certain way and to do the things we choose? Or do we allow government to have certain roles and responsibilities and not others? In other words, it matters where you think ultimate authority resides. Our Declaration of Independence asserts that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. It proclaims that individual men (and women, of course!) have rights given them directly by God. And therefore governments can only have those rights we choose to afford them.
This is what conservatives mean when they say they are for limited government. Limiting the power of the government preserves our individual freedom. The more we allow big-government power mongers to regulate our actions and even our thoughts (can you say "hate crimes?") the more we forfeit our God-given right to control our own lives to a colossal, impersonal steamroller on which our puny individual voices no longer have any effect.
Repeat after me: Big Government = Steamroller.
So if you think you should just vote for whichever guy comes across as more likable, think again.
Please.
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