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Are you exhausted with the entire campaign season?
Yeah, me too.
It can be exhausting to go through the campaign gauntlet, assaulted with ads on TV, radio, Internet, your mail, driving through the neighborhood, and so on. Signs, commercials, glad-handers, bumper stickers. I feel like we... as a community... are so fractured during these times. And it is tremendously difficult for me to drive by that house on the corner, which has covered their lawn with campaign signs and political statements that I wholeheartedly disagree with and not think "Damn, they must be a**holes".
I'm working on it.
But one thing that I am tremendously thankful for is that we do live in the United States. Every four years we get a say on who leads us into the future. We get a choice, and that choice is a precious thing in this wide world of ours. It might not feel that way. After all, what is my vote in the sea of all votes, in that mystery that is the electoral college? A pebble in the ocean, perhaps. But there are people in this world who do not even have the pebble. There are women in this world who do not have any choices for their lives, any voice whatsoever. It can be so easy to forget that, get absorbed in what we don't have and forget to really cherish what we do.
It's more than taxes. It's more than domestic policy or foreign policy. It is more than religion and religious differences. Voting is about ownership of our home and of fellowship with each other as citizens. We are a family after all, and when it comes down to it, we can bicker like siblings but we have to come together in the end and go forward for the greater good. And when you make your choices at the polls tomorrow, I hope you keep in mind the fact that all citizens of this country are your brothers and sisters and you are making decisions not just for you, but for them.
I am Thankful to be an American.
Go Vote.
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