Voting Day

While it's not one of the "big ones," such as the midterms or the Presidential elections, today is still voting day. You could say that elections like this are even more important since they cover local offices that can affect you everyday.

I was born and raised as a Republican because of my parents and their background. However, I became more and more liberal in my thinking once I got to college and beyond. In fact, it became clear to me that my thought process growing up had usually been socially liberal anyway.

I officially changed parties to Democrat in 2016. I refused to be associated with Drumpf and the way in which he'd bastardized my idea of the Grand Old Party.

I don't have to tell you how upset I was over the results from last year. That orange faced goon won lots of support by actively campaigning against LGBTQ causes, especially the trans community. Not only did his base just lap it up but it felt like Democratic leadership wasn't doing nearly enough to defend the community either. At times, it almost felt like they were actively distancing themselves from us.

It reminds me of how my moderate mother described how I should vote: for who I felt was the lesser of two evils. Since MAGA arrived almost a decade ago, that's still the Democratic Party; with all its faults.

What's become worse is now local officials are campaigning more and more like Drumpf: the other side is evil and anti American, the children are being influenced by their wickedness, and any Republican who doesn't agree with us is a RINO.

It's truly sickening anymore.

The truly sad part is there are plenty of moderate Republicans out there, even in my deep red part of the country, who see through Drumpf's bullshit and disagree with where this country's going. However, they continue to vote for him and those like him. If they don't, then they'd either be considered disloyal or would mean they'd (God forbid) have to vote for a Democrat.

The horror! The horror! Will somebody please think of the children???

Those same children, by the way, they'll fight to have them born but then not care about them whatsoever when they're thrown into an orphanage for their entire adolescence when nobody wants them.

But I digress.

I'll finish up by saying this: vote. Vote this year, vote next year, vote every year. Vote when your candidate will win, vote when they'll lose, vote no matter what.

Too many people stopped because "it doesn't matter." They convince themselves and too many others not to vote because they no longer believe they'll make a difference. But their silence does make a difference. One less vote here and there can swing major elections and completely change how our government runs.

If enough people don't vote then fringe candidates can grab more and more power.

Then, you end up with a convicted felon, would be sex offender, racist, sexist, xenophobic, hate filled bigot as a two time US President stripping away rights and privileges from us like it's the 1940s Germany or Soviet Union.

Rant over.