Go out and vote.
No matter who you vote for, get to your poling place and register your vote.
If I ended my column with that last sentence, that would be the theme of today’s post.
It doesn’t matter who you vote for; it matters most that you vote.
Although that is not 100-percent true, of course, getting out to vote on Election Day—the day that we are supposed to vote on, not with the laziness that early voting or absentee ballots, two ways of voting which have been abused by many in our population—is very, very important.
This is what our forefathers wanted, this is the way a democracy works, and those that don’t get out to vote are literally giving away one of the principles that makes us the unique country that we are.
And by the way, if my 90-year-old mother can vote on Election Day, then you can too.
I will be taking her to the polling place today, and she will cast her ballot, while some people one-quarter of her age demonstrate their laziness and use other routes to vote.
If she can do it, you can too.
No excuses, no “I’m too busy,” no “The coronavirus” … you got away with that last year, you can’t get away with that this year.
How many of those people who claimed they were “scared and concerned” about going to crowded polling places last year easily and readily went to shop at crowded stores at the very e same time they were crabbing about going out to vote?
It can’t happen this year, and in New York State at least, we have one measure, in particular, to vote on that if rejected, won’t allow that attitude to taint an election in the state ever again.
And who am I personally going to vote for?
Well, no Snoopy or Alvin to vote for this time around, but as I said last week, I had a recent situation with one legislator who just happens to be running this year to regain her position, she refused to help me with my problem—as her predecessor did some years ago—and I went elsewhere, where I received the help I needed.
Nope, I won’t be voting for her this time around.
The legislator that helped me isn’t running right now, but when his spot comes up next year, he has my vote.
I plan on voting out every incumbent on my ballot, whether they are Republican or Democrat or Independent.
I believe that they have blindly led us into an abyss during the pandemic—just about each and every one of them—and they are to blame for the problems and divisions we face now.
So they get the hook from me.
Whether others will follow my lead is another story, but at least I can say that I did what I felt needed to be done to rid our country of the blood suckers that these politicians really are, and I, at least, plan to keep my blood to myself by voting these supposed leaders out of office.
And that mindset will continue with me through the next few Election Days, until I feel that those that I am targeting are long gone.
Will it work? I have no idea, but at least I will feel good about myself when I leave the polling place.
Other than that, I really have nothing else to say about this special day on the calendar. Other than to say that as citizens, voting is something that we must do each and every year, and today is the day.
It is one of the few real obligations that we have as citizens, so let’s all get out and vote, even if you don’t agree with me at all on anything I have said about who I am voting for.
I have voted every year since I was able to, since age 18, and I am happy to say that my son has also voted each and every election that he has been able to vote in.
This obligation was instilled in him at an early age, and I believe he wanted to vote, at least at first, because he wanted to feel like an adult.
Now, he knows that it is something he has to do, and something that he wants to do.
My mother has also been voting for decades.
She would be the perfect candidate for early voting, or absentee voting, but she has chosen to do it the real way, because she has no need to do it any other way, thank God.
I know that I am repeating myself, but there is no excuse—get out and vote!
Today’s the day!
No matter who you vote for, get to your poling place and register your vote.
If I ended my column with that last sentence, that would be the theme of today’s post.
It doesn’t matter who you vote for; it matters most that you vote.
Although that is not 100-percent true, of course, getting out to vote on Election Day—the day that we are supposed to vote on, not with the laziness that early voting or absentee ballots, two ways of voting which have been abused by many in our population—is very, very important.
This is what our forefathers wanted, this is the way a democracy works, and those that don’t get out to vote are literally giving away one of the principles that makes us the unique country that we are.
And by the way, if my 90-year-old mother can vote on Election Day, then you can too.
I will be taking her to the polling place today, and she will cast her ballot, while some people one-quarter of her age demonstrate their laziness and use other routes to vote.
If she can do it, you can too.
No excuses, no “I’m too busy,” no “The coronavirus” … you got away with that last year, you can’t get away with that this year.
How many of those people who claimed they were “scared and concerned” about going to crowded polling places last year easily and readily went to shop at crowded stores at the very e same time they were crabbing about going out to vote?
It can’t happen this year, and in New York State at least, we have one measure, in particular, to vote on that if rejected, won’t allow that attitude to taint an election in the state ever again.
And who am I personally going to vote for?
Well, no Snoopy or Alvin to vote for this time around, but as I said last week, I had a recent situation with one legislator who just happens to be running this year to regain her position, she refused to help me with my problem—as her predecessor did some years ago—and I went elsewhere, where I received the help I needed.
Nope, I won’t be voting for her this time around.
The legislator that helped me isn’t running right now, but when his spot comes up next year, he has my vote.
I plan on voting out every incumbent on my ballot, whether they are Republican or Democrat or Independent.
I believe that they have blindly led us into an abyss during the pandemic—just about each and every one of them—and they are to blame for the problems and divisions we face now.
So they get the hook from me.
Whether others will follow my lead is another story, but at least I can say that I did what I felt needed to be done to rid our country of the blood suckers that these politicians really are, and I, at least, plan to keep my blood to myself by voting these supposed leaders out of office.
And that mindset will continue with me through the next few Election Days, until I feel that those that I am targeting are long gone.
Will it work? I have no idea, but at least I will feel good about myself when I leave the polling place.
Other than that, I really have nothing else to say about this special day on the calendar. Other than to say that as citizens, voting is something that we must do each and every year, and today is the day.
It is one of the few real obligations that we have as citizens, so let’s all get out and vote, even if you don’t agree with me at all on anything I have said about who I am voting for.
I have voted every year since I was able to, since age 18, and I am happy to say that my son has also voted each and every election that he has been able to vote in.
This obligation was instilled in him at an early age, and I believe he wanted to vote, at least at first, because he wanted to feel like an adult.
Now, he knows that it is something he has to do, and something that he wants to do.
My mother has also been voting for decades.
She would be the perfect candidate for early voting, or absentee voting, but she has chosen to do it the real way, because she has no need to do it any other way, thank God.
I know that I am repeating myself, but there is no excuse—get out and vote!
Today’s the day!
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