You have a chance to wake up from our national nightmare today, Tuesday, November 8. And it’s not a pipe dream.
Vote. Everyone.
Vote like history will remember it, because it will.
Vote like your life depended on it. Because it does.
Wake up and vote.
Sally, well encouraged. Here are a few random thoughts from my post today. Keith
The day to officially vote has arrived in America. Will America take a step back from its democracy or will it say to some belligerent autocratic thinkers enough is enough? Here are a few thoughts, again from an independent and former member of both parties. I mention this often as I want people to know I have some conservative bents around financial stewardship and progressive bents around civil rights and opportunities.
Please vote, if you have not doneso already. If you have, well done.
If you care about our planet and battling climate change even more, please vote.
If you care about the civil rights of all people on our shores, please vote.
If you care about the right for a woman to choose what to do with her own body, please vote.
If you care about healthcare access for all Americans, please vote.
If you care about financial programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, please vote.
If you care about requiring more truthfulness and civility in politics, please vote.
If you want to people to address real issues rather than contrived ones, please vote.
To be frank, the halls of legislature no longer are filled entirely with people with good morals, ethics and sense. We have some folks we are not only less than competent, they are more than mean-spirited. Sadly, we have hundreds more just like this lot who are running for office today.
This last statement is unnerving is as Bill Maher put it so well, this is how autocracies start, by electing the people who have sown seeds of doubt. As Maher said the other night, Hitler and Mussolini were elected into office and brought along like-minded folks.
If anyone touts the former US president’s bogus and unproven claims of election fraud in this election, they should not be voted for. Full stop. They are purposefully gaslighting you to get elected, just as the former president has done all of his adult life. He did not just wake up, run for office and start deceiving people. That has long been his modus operandi. This is why I did not vote for him in 2016 or 2020. I want my president to be more truthful than not.
We have one Senatorial candidate who is against abortion, unless it is his baby and he needs to pay to get rid of it. We have one Senatorial candidate who as a doctor on a TV show was hauled in front of Congress for peddling snake oil miracle cures that were untested and harmful to people when taken with other drugs. We have another Senatorial candidate who owns a gun shop, presenting a fairly significant conflict of interest, but also has posed a even tighter nationwide abortion ban.
People need to look at the candidates and vote. Even if you don’t agree with me on all issues, please vote. The problem with elections in America is not fraud, it is not enough people voting. That has always been the case. One party does not think that.
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Well said. Your vote is your voice and it has never been more vital. There is no room for complacency in this election. Like many, my concern is what will be the repercussions when results don’t go the way they might want and there will be cries of rigged elections. fear a new dangerous precedent has been set.
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