I Challenge YOU to Educate the Low-Information Voters Who Are Hurting Themselves and the Rest Of The Country – Really, This is a Challenge, You Game?

Most of us wonder how people can vote in political candidates and incumbents into, or back into elected office that clearly do not represent their own personal interests. How do women vote for a Governor that clearly is attacking women’s rights? Like when a Governor wants to force any woman who wants an abortion to be raped by requiring them to endure a trans-vaginal ultrasound even though no medical doctor prescribed it, or even says that it is not necessary, or any of the other disgraceful ways the TeaPublicans have attacked women and their rights. How do people who don’t/didn’t have any healthcare, whose state already gets much more money from Washington D.C. then it sends to the government, vote for politicians who refuse to expand Medicaid (which wouldn’t cost their state a dime for the 1st 3 years and then only 5-10% percent of the costs after that) and/or refuse to set-up healthcare exchanges to help those who can’t afford reasonable healthcare get affordable healthcare? After speaking to many people and getting a lot of feedback from people who actually live in those areas, like the Southeast, I found that we don’t understand something. It reminds me of a story I saw on the news many years ago that I still can’t, or won’t, forget. There was a 14 year old boy, attending Public School, in New York City, it was discovered that his parents were making him live in a coffin, whenever he wasn’t in school he would have to stay in a coffin. When he returned from school he had to get into his coffin, he had to eat, wash, and yes defecate in the coffin! When it hit the news the first question was obvious, “Why didn’t you tell anyone?” His answer? He was surprised by the question, “I thought everyone lived the same way I did.” Understandably the child was severely introverted and had no friends so he really didn’t talk to anyone unless he had to. But it made me realize that if you brought up a son or daughter in a green room for 5 years and told that child the color of the room was blue, what do you think that child would say the color of a green traffic light was? That’s why people in areas that receive more in social welfare like disability, food stamps, Social Security, and so forth, vote for politicians that claim the government is a socialist one and is bad! So why don’t they just get smarter? Watch more news? Read more? Well, some of them do, but what they are seeing, hearing, and reading is total bullcrap because the ultra-rich are controlling what they see, hear, and read. Did you know that the Koch Brothers went as far as paying off a State College in Tallahassee, Florida (FSU) to have the final word of who the economics department hired! Yea, no lie! Charles Koch Buys Rights To Control Who Florida State University Hires in their Economic Dept. The amount of money being spent on corrupting our politicians, elections, and on media (written, TV, internet, and other outlets) is absolutely insane. Why do they spend this money? Because it gives the 1% power, power through influence. What can we do? We can make sure that those people who “only watch Fox (faux – false) news” and only see, hear, and read, the misinformation they are being fed, that are told that the room is blue, get the facts, the truth, that the light is GREEN! We must find a way to get the truth to the “low-information voters,” whom many are not to blame for being wrong, and we must do it without the advantage that the ultra-rich billionaires have, which is billions of dollars. I want to challenge each and everyone of you who actually read this post. I want to challenge you to start a massive information blitz telling the facts, the truth, and get it out there in every way you know, in hopes of some of the information getting to those people who are only being told the room is blue. I thought I would try something. We know that those low-information people see very limited information, they may not read a lot, or watch much other than a source that misleads them, so we have to do something that is simple, interesting, and will appeal to those who can’t be bothered researching information. The information must be served in a way that will catch their attention. If enough of the information makes it to these people, perhaps we can get them to see that they are hurting themselves. That’s why I’m asking you, challenging you in fact, to join me in an information campaign targeting those low-information voters. Whatever you create and get out there, remember that it must be something that the target audience will relate to. For instance, I want to target the red states (9 out of 10 of the poorest states are Republican states) in the Southeast, so I’m going to start making memes (pictures with something you write on them) and I’m going to use NASCAR pictures. Here’s my 1st idea on how to start getting information to these people: I challenge each and everyone of you to the make and distribute the best meme, to educate the misinformed, one that will get widespread attention and circulation, so much so that it will make it’s way into the areas where these voters are, and to get widespread distribution of that meme so that it will reach our target audience. Don’t know how to make a meme? “No problem it’s not only easy, it’s fun. Below, I give you a couple really easy ways of doing it, and showing your creativity and sense of humor. So what do you say? Hey, if you share this and my blog post and get others involved we could have millions of these target oriented information memes circulating everywhere! Some of them are bound to reach our target audience and change some minds, AND VOTES! O.K. Let’s see what we can do. Contact me if you have any questions, and please involve as many people as you can by sharing this. Thanks so much for your anticipated cooperation.

How to Make a Meme

There are numerous free sites to assist you in your quest to make a meme, whether you want to be funny, creative, a mix sending a serious message and being a creative, funny, teacher. The site I’m going to recommend here is one that I found to be the easiest and quickest. You will make a meme in a few minutes, I promise. Go to quickmeme by clicking on the colored word (link) quickmeme in this sentence. This is what you will see:

Quickmeme – A Meme Generator

Step 1: On the black on top, instead of seeing a picture of me you will see the word “Login.” You will need to click this and register/Login, if you are on Facebook you can just click Log in with Facebook, or simply type in whatever information you need to, to create an account.

Step 2: Your ready to make a meme. You can use any of the pictures you see, or you can browse the web, or your personal photos, and “upload” a picture (more on uploading in a minute.) Pick a picture by simply clicking on the picture you want to use. I’ve picked one as an example, I chose one that they call “Condescending Wonka” this is what you’ll see:

Condescending Wonka from quickmeme

Step 3: Your almost done! Now put your creative, humorous thinking cap on and fill in the prompts; 1st think of a title, the title will only be seen when your meme is listed with other memes for people to see. Then fill in the “Top Caption, this is what will appear at the top of the picture. Finally fill in the “Bottom Caption.” Suggestion: The Top Caption should be the set-up for the point you want to make, the Bottom Caption should be the punchline to drive your point home. See what I’ve done here (mind you, I never claimed to be good at humor.):

quickmeme instruction on filling in the content of a meme

Step 4: Click “Create” Congratulations! You just made your very first meme! Don’t leave yet, you need to save your work! You can click on “File” and save it, or you can share it to Twitter or Facebook and then “save it as a picture” from there. Done!

Now that your an expert you may want to try other meme generators that give you a little more control, like picking what size the text is, and other options. I suggest you try Imgur.

I promised to tell you about “uploading” your own pictures. It’s very simple. If you’ve ever saved a picture on your computer it was shared into a “file” the default file would be “pictures” or “My Pictures”. If you want to use your own picture, instead of clicking on one of the pictures the meme generator offers, like when I picked Wonka, simply click on “Upload” a picture. that will bring you to your files on your computer, one of which is where you saved your pictures. Simply navigate to the picture you want to use and double click on it, or click on a picture and then click on “save” or “open”, your picture will be uploaded to the meme generator like Wonka was and you can do the same steps as before to create a meme.

Finally, and this is the best, if you have an idea for a meme and have a picture in mind that you would like to use, type the topic into your “search” box on the top of your browser and then click images, it will give you a bunch of pictures to choose from, then save it. This is a picture of my browser:

Google Screenshot

You’ll notice in Google the big white bar near the top of the screen, that’s the address bar. To the right of that is the “search box”, you can type in there whatever you want to find a picture of, ex: fire engine and hit enter, that will give you a list of articles on fire engines, but above the list of articles you’ll see the word “images”, simply click on that and you will have a number of pictures of fire engines. Save one into “pictures by right clicking on the picture you want, then left click “Save Image As” and it will open up your library of folders. click on the “Pictures” folder to open it, then name the picture in the box that says “File Name” and then click “Save”. You then have a picture you can upload to use in a meme. Note: instead of the search box you can click on the word “images” on the google screen, it’s just below the search box, then click in what picture you want to find.

GOOD LUCK! ENJOY! And PLEASE join this challenge so we can educate those who are being fed the ultra-rich garbage so we can keep the Senate and take back the house. If you have any questions use the “Contact Me” button on my blog ay www.Medic3569.com thanks for helping take back our Republic.

Only 14 States, and Washington D. C Have Set Up Their Own Affordable Healthcare (Obamacare) Marketplace Exchanges

 Tell YOUR Congress and Senate to Obey the Law That They Swore an Oath to Uphold

Actual Pros and Cons of “The Affordable Care Act” aka “Obamacare”

 An article by bloomberg.com spells out some pros and cons of what’s happening with the Affordable Care Act implementation. http://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/health-insurance-exchanges/  The Republicans attaching defunding, delaying, ans obstructing the Affordable Care Act after is was voted into law by the Congress and the Senate, and upheld by the Supreme Court is nothing more than hurting this country immensely. Shutting down the government, and probably risking the full faith and credit of the United States when the debt ceiling comes up on October 17th is wrong. With the health Exchanges opening yesterday the law is being implemented to help the 30 million Americans who couldn’t afford healthcare get it. This is a good for all.

If exchanges work as intended, premiums will fall and more people will obtain insurance. If not, costs could rise, especially for younger customers. A few states started organizing their exchanges early and are predicting success; California said in May that insurers agreed to offer cheaper rates than many had predicted. But the technical hurdles are huge, some states have delayed critical functions and there is much debate over the practical fallout.

Healthcare Costs Have Been Rising at a Much Slower Rate Since The Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) Has Been Law

 Healthcare costs were rising at about 12% a year, with the Affordable Care Act being made law in 2010 costs have risen much slower, about 4% a year. Since healthcare is such a large part of the non-defense expenditures this is good. Yet there is a small, bet very well-backed faction in our Congress that is hell bent on blocking the law from being implemented. There is a tremendous amount of money being spent ti discourage young people from signing up on the exchanges, to get affordable health insurance plans because they know that for the law to work we need young people to sign up.

People Must Learn What The Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare)Does and Does NOT Do

 People need to learn what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It is discouraging when a talk show like Jimmy Kimmel Live asks people about the Affordable Care Act, and Obamacare, and many people are dead set against “Obamacare” but like the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. They are the same exact thing people! When some people are asked if they are for the Affordable Care Act, or, Obamacare many say they are against it, However, when asked about specific things in the law, they are 100% for them. For instance; when asked if young people should be able to stay on their parents health insurance plans, they say YES. When asked if insurance companies should be able to drop subscribers, after the subscribers have been paying premiums for years, just because they get sick, they say NO. When asked if insurance companies should be able to deny insurance to anyone with a pre-existing condition, they NO. When asked if the insurance companies should be forced to spend at least 85% of the money they collect for premiums on actual benefits for the insured, instead of boosting their profits and giving their shareholders bigger dividends, and their executives bigger bonuses, they say YES. Well folks, these are all things that the Affordable Care Act have ALREADY DONE!

To get real facts about “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the actual name of the law, also known as “Obamacare,” click on this link http://www.obamacarefacts.com/ .

So, what can I do? 

The Congressmen and Senators have listened to the people before when enough pressure through phone calls and e-mails were made directly to their offices. It has become less so since the Tea Party, and the money behind them, have put pressure on all of the politicians by threatening to run primary campaigns against anyone that doesn’t do what they want, as evidence in things like background checks for gun purchases was an issue. Everywhere from 75% to 90% of people in districts told their representatives they were for background checks but the representatives caving to the Tea Party and the NRA voted against what the people wanted. But the people putting pressure on the representatives is still the best way to try to get the Congress and the Senate to do what we want.

Get Involved For A Better America – YOU CAN Make A Difference

 Contact YOUR Congressmen by using this link http://www.house.gov/representatives/ and your Senators by using this link http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm and tell them that you are for 30 million people who can’t afford health insurance getting it, and you are for all of the things mentioned above that the Affordable Care Act has already done. Tell them that you want them to stop worrying about the Tea Party running a primary election against them because YOU will vote them out if they don’t start moving forward. We need jobs, we need the infrastructure improved, we need better education and much more. Tell them to stand up to the big money and do their jobs. Remind them that they took an oath to not only uphold the Constitution of the United States, but to uphold it’s laws, of which “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” aka “Obamacare,” is one of. Make the phone call, send the e-mail, it’s really easy with the links above. It CAN make a difference.