Please vote. I have been talking to people around me who say I will vote, and then say ‘or maybe I will just see how it all plays out’. No. Do not do that.
How in the world would that be a good idea? You just fuel the media, the spectacle. Voting is a way that you participate in the conversation and the future. While the system is flawed and there are problems many, voting is your ability. People have fought and died for you to vote and your apathy is disheartening. We have so many things that others have never had and we take it for granted everyday. There is no reason for it. Voting is one of those things.
And if I hear another, I want to live in Germany anyway (excuse for not voting) I will scream. If you do not vote, you do not participate in the future, not just the US, but all of our future. Do not kid yourself into thinking that politics draws the lines at country lines. They do not. Politics is on a global scale. We cannot shut our eyes and our involvement in the future of the world, our world and our planet.
Change will never happen if we wall ourselves up, if we refuse to be part of the conversation