• Candidates’ representatives screaming at voters who are walking into polling places have no respect for others’ intelligence. After months of campaign ads, texts, debates, and email, are we really going to be influenced by people screaming in parking lots?
• People who are abusive to polling place volunteers should be denied the vote.
• I don’t care if people vote early, on time, or late, so long as they are legitimate voters. Timing not the deciding factor in voting validity.
• The first thing I’d do if elected at any level would be to immediately involve some of the people from the opposition to fill some key jobs.
• The Hays Tilden election (1876) probably was stolen, and there’s an awfully good case to be made that Joe Kennedy bought the election for JFK, and that Mayor John Daley of Chicago and the mafia played key roles.
• The most common campaign arguments I’ve heard were all “scare tactics” and almost all of them were palpably false.
• Everyone told Barry Goldwater that if he used the phrase “extremism in defense of liberty is no vice” that he’d lose the election. He did, and he did.
• The television stations incessant visuals right down to the county levels are repetitive and annoying. Basically, there is nothing to report or “call” until all the votes are cast.
• I’d certainly support a major third party’s creation based upon the track record of the current two.
• If you don’t vote then you lose the right to complain as far as I’m concerned.

Generosity

Generous: showing a readiness to give more of something, as money or time, than is strictly necessary or expected.

“The true measure of generosity is not how much one gives but how much, after giving, one has left over.” —Joseph Epstein

One consistent attribute I’ve found in outstanding people is that of generosity. I’m not speaking solely of money, because Epstein is right: One person earning $40,000 a year is making a more generous donation when giving $100 than Bill Gates is when offering $100,000. I’m speaking of time, support, honesty, information, and so forth.

Generosity requires no expectation of reciprocity. That’s why someone allowing another driver to cross in front of them, and then becoming enraged when they are not thanked or acknowledged, is not making a generous act. That person is expecting a reward, not unlike a dog which sits and offers a paw and then growls when no treat is offered.

I’ve seen speakers who won’t take a few moments to speak to someone awaiting them off-stage, celebrities who won’t even acknowledge an adoring crowd, business leaders who share blame but not credit or praise.

When I tell the waitstaff to tell the chef that my meal is one of the best I’ve ever had, occasionally the chef will appear to thank me in person, but I neither expect it or demand it. I don’t ask for our picture to be taken to use on social media! I merely wanted to be generous with my praise.

It’s generous to consider an opposing view without critique or rebuttal. That’s perhaps the rarest form of generosity today.

It doesn’t cost anything to be generous because true generosity is not about giving money, that’s simply an act of writing a check.

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