NEVER THINK THE SAME WAY EVER AGAIN

In the early history of Homo sapiens in ancient times every creature learned their survival instinct to prevent their species from extinction. These are omens and premonitions that were effective to warn them in advance and get their adrenaline rushing and escape from imminent dangers. They learned them from actual experiences and observations, things that are poisonous, feeling of fear, smells and the scent of predators hunting them for food.

In this modern era, we are now living, this survival instinct is now carried out and built inside us and called instinct of self-preservation. But the same is not anymore applied to tigers and lions, dangerous things and objects like before, but to things and situations that tend to bring a feeling of fear in us. They are things and objects or people that are unknown to us, unfamiliar to us, and those outside of our comfort zone. This fear is activated by our survival instinct as it wants us to avoid things that we are not certain about or things that can possibly “hurt” us. Our instinct has mistaken these unknowns as something that poses a danger to our lives and wants us to stay away from it as far as possible.

This is what most people are using as their guide in the election. First impressions are highly influential, despite the well-worn admonition not to judge a book by its cover. Within a tenth of a second of seeing an unfamiliar face, they have already made a judgment about its owner’s character – caring, trustworthy, aggressive, extrovert, competent and so on. Paradoxically, we tend to undermine, look down, and pigeonhole candidates that are unknown, not a good English speaker, not always seen on TV, and poor, which means no money to buy votes. Once that snap judgment of racism or discrimination has formed, it is surprisingly hard to budge.

In every ramification for our intransigence to keep electing the National officials who served during the previous administration, the same thing what we are going to expect: extravagances, corruptions, and frauds that is going to mark the rule of the men in authority. Under its influence, patriotism has given place to partyism, considerations of the public weal having been abandoned by those that belong to party success, and our Senatorial elections would have degenerated into mere contests for a place.