With Election Day coming up, you’ve heard of the expression, “Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face,” I haven’t voted in a primary for a very long time because I’ve learned a long time ago that there is good and bad in both parties, and I will only vote for a person based on what I believe will be the best for all.

Right now, a lot of people are looking at the prices of consumer products that are off the charts and in spite of the hurt in their pocketbooks, they will still vote for the same people who have put us in the same situation.

Don’t get me started on these politicians for some reason who continue to have a “No Cash Bail Law.” We are not talking about people who stole a loaf of bread. We are talking about hardened criminals who have maimed, killed, and destroyed people’s lives and have a record as long as my arm.

If I keep hearing about the “Poor people of Color,” like we are some rare, endangered species who cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, my head is going to explode. And it bears repeating how parents can take care of ten kids, but ten kids don’t have the ability to take care of one parent.

I don’t know what happened to the “feminists” who can’t even protect biological girls and women. What happened to Title IX which states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” Passed in 1972.

When I saw that a girls’ volleyball team was banned from their own locker room. The girls felt uncomfortable changing clothes while someone identifying as a female with their original male equipment was changing in there, too.

Let me tell you something. Do you think some of these boys will not take advantage of this situation knowing by simply saying, “I think I’m a girl,” and walk into the girl’s locker room with no consequences. If I had a daughter, and she was banned from the girl’s locker room because of this nonsense, someone would be getting a huge lawsuit from me, and I would win! All I know, as a biological woman, I had to go through the pain and suffering every month. Some girls were fortunate that they didn’t have to experience that much suffering each month.

And finally, you know when you graduated from High School and you were on your way to college, it was a rite of passage when you finally said, “I am an adult.”

I went to Middlesex County College, so I didn’t have the experience of living on a campus, but I find it reverse discrimination when a college will say, “If you are white, you cannot go into this space because that is reserved for the black kids because they need to have a specific space for themselves so they feel comfortable.” No one is going to tell me who to associate with in college or any other place. A college experience is so that you learn to co-exist with others who may not look like you or come from the same background than you.

There are even ethnic groups that have caste systems where they discriminate against each other based on skin color, economics, and your background. Trust me, I know this because I knew one couple where the woman was very educated and her husband managed a small motel, but because the woman had a sightly darker complexion, her husband’s family were not too happy about their marriage. Eventually, they did come around.

When you are a teacher, and have a degree in a certain subject, you need to be teaching that subject and not go off the range teaching sexuality, politics, etc.or anything that is inappropriate for young children in their formative years. Children need to be taught useful skills that help them survive as adults and to take care of themselves. Just remember this: We are trillions of dollars in debt and guess what? We don’t have this money right now. It is a loan from future generations. Right now they expect that social security money is running low and they are looking at a 25% reduction in those benefits across the board by the year 2032 unless something is done to change it. So, even when you get a COLA (cost of living adjustment) each year, the cost of consumer products rise, so they get you coming and going.

So, if you want to keep things copacetic (status quo), it’s up to you. That is why I stopped toeing a party line. C.M.