“Just vote—but not against your own interests”    This view of my father shows how I saw him when I was a small child and, because of my small size, had to look up at him. My father read the newspaper and watched NBC News every night. He said his biggest sadness was knowing that people in poor rural areas continually vote against their own interests, and that he hoped they “smartened up.”  In this painting, he has my smart phone in his shirt pocket. He was very interested in Internet research. The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe as its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them. –Turkish proverb