Primary Colors

We in Utah are approaching Primary elections in the next couple of weeks. Early voting runs from Tuesday, June 15th through Friday, the 18th. Voters can cast ballots at the various polling location on Election Day, June 22nd. This information was publicized in a news article yesterday and the readers' comments mostly voiced support for one or another candidate involved in the election.

One comment caused me to shake my head. The commenter announced that he would change his party affiliation in order to vote for the weaker of the two candidates in the other Party's race and encouraged others to do the same. He felt that this would give whatever candidate came out of his own (former) Party primary an edge in the general election.

When I was young I learned a song called "Our Primary Colors". The beginning went something like this: "Our Primary colors are one, two, three: red, yellow, and blue."
Applied to Primary elections, if Republicans are red and Democrats are blue, the third category of voter described above, not voting to support a candidate but to subvert democracy, must claim the yellow.

Our national colors are red, white, and blue; there is no place for yellow.