I despise politics. It’s full of greedy, attention-seeking, big-pocketed scumbags advertising themselves as a means to bring change. But my disdain goes deeper than the politicians; I hate voting for a system I consider to be broken. Every 4 years, our nation panics and casts their votes for their favorite candidate, and then their votes are discarded and replaced by an electoral college vote.
My parents, however, see things differently than I; and my mom has practically been begging me to vote for her precious Democrats because God forbid another Republican enters office and ruins the world, while my dad constantly complains to me about whatever bullshit Trump did yesterday or the day before that.
Ok that’s enough ranting; by this point you understand that I think politics are dumb. I think voting is dumb. I think my parents are dumb for voting.
When I really thought about it though, what does it mean to vote?
To vote is to asserverate (declare) a belief you hold to be true and important. When we vote, we are telling the world, “I believe in this and think it matters.” So the simple truth is, we are voting constantly. We are never not voting.
Every day, when we wake up and get dressed, we vote. Our clothes are a statement on what we believe a person (ourselves) should wear. When we show up to class, we vote for the importance of whatever subject is being taught, or we vote for the importance of the degree we’re pursuing. Either way, if we didn’t believe in class, we’d skip it. When we’re driving, and there’s a fork in the road, and we go left instead of right, we voted for going left.
Every action we take is a statement. Every sentence we speak is a statement. Every statement we make is a vote for that statement. When we make a decision, adopt a new lifestyle choice, etc., we are casting a vote and declaring that what we do is worthwhile.
So there it is. 7 billion people voting constantly, just trying to prove that what they do is worthwhile.
The truth is, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a part of the winning side of a vote. What’s important is that we vote for ourselves, not for others.
I say this, after I just promised my mom I’d vote in her precious midterm election. Well guess what bitches… This midterm vote of mine won’t be a vote for the Democratic party (literally it will be, but figuratively…) it will be a vote for my mom, because I love her!
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