Voting is a privilege and a luxury not offered in some places. We should use it. It’s that simply.
It’s just like when your mom told you to eat your supper, “Don’t you know there’re kids starving in China”. Some people in this world still live under dictatorships and have very few of the choices we have. But not voting is much worse than throwing away good food, especially this election year.
Every election I can remember someone says “this is the most important election of our lives”, so I’ll not repeat that here but certainly this election will have the most historically significant results in several generations worth of elections. A black man or a women will be voted into the White House. This is your chance to say you were part of a history making decision.
At the risk of sounding like a political nerd imagine for a second you had the opportunity to vote for JFK, Lincoln or even George Washington. How cool would that be. You could say you were a part of something that made a real positive difference to the World. I think this election is that chance for us now. I’m not going to miss it.
As messed-up and corrupt as our political system can seem we are still so lucky to be American. You can bet there are a million people who would trade places with anyone of us to have the rights we have. And for those conspiracy theory people who think it doesn’t matter who wins and that all candidates are all just puppets of some secret powers you really have to ask yourself what string pullers would have used a black man to insure they would get the White House? This is the real deal, no shills here.
Will either of the candidates do what they say once elected? Will we be better off next year than we are today. Only time will tell but if you want to be able to complain about it you have to vote now! I can’t promise that your candidate will win but I can pretty much guarantee that you will be pleased with yourself that you exercised your constitutional right to VOTE! It feels good.
-R. Haaga
Owner – SoSouth.com
