No one can tell you who to vote for, this is your choice to make. Your vote goes toward the candidate you select, despite the fear tactics that fascist detractors are trying to push voters into voting for a candidate they do not trust or support.
Today, you get to choose how this country is going to look for the next few years. This is when our voices matter the most, though they should matter on a daily basis to our elected officials and be heard on a daily basis.
I understand the loss of hope. I see the pain and fear. I feel the frustration.
If we stop voting then they win. The rich, the powerful, and the oppressors get what they want- your quiet subjugation and admittance that you are powerless to them. Don’t give them your power. Don’t give up your power.
This is what they want. If more people stop voting, then only a select few are deciding who is running the US and how it is run without the needed input of all Americans. They want you to feel dejected and give up so that they have the say and not the people.
I know it is demoralizing and disheartening to see a candidate enter office and then turn into what they swore they were not. Trust is broken and the system is broken. These are all true and should not be ignored. We have a lot to change in the way our government is structured so that we can revert power to the people instead of elected representatives that are so easily corruptible.
Go vote today and disrupt the system as best you can. We do have power here.
Until we can all unite together to drastically change our government, this is our one way for our voices to be heard and show where we stand.
Will these candidates go the same route and become what they say they would never? Yes. Let’s not lie and say what people want to hear, but let’s discuss the truth here. This is not being cynical but realistic. Go in knowing that the person you are voting for will more than likely become the monster you distrust and detest that will come for your rights. When they do become the regressive entity that you disavow, vote them out and hold them accountable. This is not meant to keep you from voting or for you to lose hope, this is meant to empower you to want to change the entire system in the US because it needs to be changed.
We will stay oppressed under the current system. We have to change it or live with the consequences of the status quo which is to continually bury the voices of American voters.
Today is the only day that elected officials in the US will listen to Americans.
Our voices should always be heard by those who represent us, but they are not. This is why the power should be in the hands of the people. No one person should be representing huge populations of people because it has been proven to not work or we would not be where we are. We should be voting on what Congress votes on, it should be all of us and our input, not the sole discretion of an elected official who ignores the needs of their constituents.
Until this day comes when the power is in the hands of the people, don’t give up the power you do have right now.
Vote
From the river to the sea, may the whole world be free.
Vote 3rd party
Protest
Vote them all out
Boycott
Vote against genocide supporters
Disrupt everything
Vote for a woman’s right to choose
BE UNGOVERNABLE
Vote to protect the environment
Please extend your energy to people and countries facing atrocities and genocide- Sudan, Congo, West Papua, the Rohingyas, Armenians, and the Uyghurs.