Vote, I don't care who you vote for; just vote damn it!!!!
Ok sure I wish that you would vote for my candidates, but regardless of whom you support, US citizens I want you to VOTE tomorrow (if you haven't already). Our whole future as a democracy depends on you voting. Spoiler alert- in case that last sentence didn't convince you, I am about to guilt the heck out you.
Have you ever heard of Viola Liuzzo? She was a 39 year old white woman, mother of 5, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on the last night of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March . She was working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) transportation service ferrying marchers between Selma and Montgomery when she was shot and killed.
How about Fannie Lou Hammer? Mrs. Hammer, an African American woman, who was long involved in voter rights, challenged the all-white Mississippi delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention and spoke to them about how African-Americans in many states across the country were prevented from voting through illegal tests, taxes and intimidation.
And oh my goodness what about Alice Paul? Dr. Paul, a white woman born in 1885, dedicated the whole of her life to women's equality. She was part of the first political protest to picket the White House for women's right to vote. Arrested she commenced a hunger strike, which led to her being moved to the prisonís psychiatric ward and force-fed raw eggs through a feeding tube.
These three women are just a sample of the women and men who sacrificed, suffered and in some cases died, for our right to vote. So folks, I don't care how busy you are, what the weather is like, how much you hate the political ads (with you there) or how cynical you are about the political process. Just vote damn it! Your country needs you.