It's Election Day!
Vote for me!
It’s Election Day in America and I really hope you get out and vote—or that you’ve voted already.
Sure, most of us wish the candidates were different, as in better. But don’t surrender to apathy and despair. Fill out a ballot. Let your vote be counted.
Often there are important state issues/referendums on the ballot and local offices up for grabs. Even though Trump versus Harris consumes most of the oxygen, these state issues and local offices deserve your attention as well.
The so-called experts keep warning us about the death of democracy and the rise of fascism. Deny them by voting. And then deny them further by doing even more, after the election.
I always feel better after voting. I hope you do too.
So, on this day especially I don’t care if you’re Red, Blue, Green, or some other color. I care that you’re engaged. That you’re willing to go on the record. That you're ready to take a stand, express an opinion, if only on your ballot. It’s a start.
I know some people say voting only encourages the bastards within a thoroughly corrupt and corrupting system. I don’t believe that. Voting gives you a chance to send a message. You may think your one vote won’t matter, but it’s certain no vote by you won’t matter. It’s time for you to matter.
Be a citizen, not a subject. Exercise a citizen’s right to vote. Vote for me! Well, not literally *for* me, but for our mutual belief in having our voices heard. You have my thanks.
My inbox was loaded this morning when I turned on my computer with positive and negative propaganda-Michael Moore and Reich for the Democrats and a host of others. Mark Taylor's-
"ELECTION DAY! Spittin' Into The Wind... AGAIN! The jig is up. The mask is off. The diaper has dropped. The con has run its course. We have spun all the way down to a choice between a nonsensical laughing gas bag and a bill-skipping con man"- did not strike me as funny at all. Inspiring apathy and distrust -discouragement is not what we need. We need people participating in the community-experiencing the community-get out from behind your screens at least do your minimal civic duty and vote. National politics is distant-virtual- engagement in local civic projects-local politics is where you rub shoulders with real people tends to make people less alienated. The wealth of volunteers-election workers enabling the voting to go on are not wasting their time nor are they fools. The fools are the ones that sit back in the arrogance thinking they know it all-complacency- apathy are the real enemies of participatory democracy. There is no such thing as non-participatory democracy.
We should vote. Think of it this way. For 5 minutes every two years we have a say in our government. The other 1,051,893 minutes belong to the politicians and the bureaucrats.