an open letter to democrats
By Liberal Librarian
Voting is both a right and a privilege.
It is a right because those who came before you fought and died to continually expand the franchise. African Americans in the South couldn’t vote before 1964. Women couldn’t vote before 1920. Universal suffrage was gained by long, incremental struggle. It was not handed on a silver platter, fully formed out of the Founders’ heads like Athena from Zeus.
Voting is a privilege because it is a privilege to be a citizen of the world’s last remaining superpower. It is a privilege because as a mere citizen you have the power to decide your fate. If you eschew voting, to paraphrase Plato, you hand that power over to your inferiors, or at the very least to people who don’t see the world in the same way you do.
If you don’t have time to vote, it means you don’t have time to be a citizen. There are millions around the world who would scrape and claw to earn the sobriquet “United States citizen”. Perhaps you could give up your place on the boat to one of them.
If you don’t have time to vote, it means that you are completely disconnected from anything not impacting you at the most personal level. Of course, by not voting, you are guaranteeing that things with which you may not agree will impact you, very closely and very personally.
Vote. Because it’ll piss off a Republican, and because somebody else will.
Read More: http://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/20/an-open-letter-to-democrats/#more-189155
GOTV2014 and beyond!
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That's my favorite graphic of the President of the United States.
How are you SKP?
Ya I love that graphic of the President too~ Awesome indeed.
I'm keepin' it real and payin' the bills, and there's a lot of 'em!
I hope you're well, too!
GOTV this fall, right?
