State of the Union: Fear
Apparently a lot of people in Santa Clara are voting by mail this year. We don't have any other option. I must say it's a very different feel to sit on your sofa and vote with your boyfriend next to you. Though they do enclose a "I voted" sticker.
It is somewhat less special than the ritual of going off to vote. And while my fabulous young man would never tell me how to vote. I know there are many out there that would, or church groups that would. Thats why the voting booth is so sacred. Our voting system is continuing to erode. Voting at home, and electronic voting are in my mind two very bad things. Mostly because people can be bullied into voting for someone. Democratic vote? Not for us thanks! But we'll feel free to supervise you in your elections! I fear that even if there is a popular vote for Obama that the republicans will somehow manage to buy off enough people and cheat their way into office again. I really think we should have taken any one of the offers to supervise our election.
I am afraid to have hope.
Yet for once, I'm happy to be voting for someone, rather than for the lesser evil candidate. I have to say it's the first time I've *ever* been HAPPY to vote for someone.
Are we so afraid of change that we'll elect another republican? "My life is shit and that's the only way I can imagine it, and I want to drag everyone down to my level." Sadly there are a lot of people out there like that. As far as I can tell the whole republican party is like that, excepting of course the people who are profiting off of it.
Buck up little trooper be brave, its time for change. Vote for Obama.
It is somewhat less special than the ritual of going off to vote. And while my fabulous young man would never tell me how to vote. I know there are many out there that would, or church groups that would. Thats why the voting booth is so sacred. Our voting system is continuing to erode. Voting at home, and electronic voting are in my mind two very bad things. Mostly because people can be bullied into voting for someone. Democratic vote? Not for us thanks! But we'll feel free to supervise you in your elections! I fear that even if there is a popular vote for Obama that the republicans will somehow manage to buy off enough people and cheat their way into office again. I really think we should have taken any one of the offers to supervise our election.
I am afraid to have hope.
Yet for once, I'm happy to be voting for someone, rather than for the lesser evil candidate. I have to say it's the first time I've *ever* been HAPPY to vote for someone.
Are we so afraid of change that we'll elect another republican? "My life is shit and that's the only way I can imagine it, and I want to drag everyone down to my level." Sadly there are a lot of people out there like that. As far as I can tell the whole republican party is like that, excepting of course the people who are profiting off of it.
Buck up little trooper be brave, its time for change. Vote for Obama.