Voting isn't just a right...
Nov. 3rd, 2008 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ramblin_rosie... it's a responsibility, to yourself, your friends, your family, your country, and the thousands of men and women who have shed their blood to ensure your ability to have a voice in your government.
All these other polls and so forth, they don't matter until the votes are in and then we know whether they're right or wrong but we're not going to know that 'til all the votes are in. Everybody says, "Rush, I'm just one vote. It doesn't matter." Maybe, taken singularly, you might say that. Let's say in your state, Obama wins by three points, then you could say, "Yeah, Rush, see? It wouldn't have mattered if I'd voted for McCain." Well, the problem with that is, what if there's a hundred of you, or what if there's a thousand of you? What if there's a hundred thousand of you that decide your one vote doesn't count? It's folly to say your vote doesn't matter and doesn't count. So all you can do is show up and vote, regardless your mood, regardless how they've tried to suppress, depress you, and dispirit you. Folks, you've got every reason to show up and support. It's called liberty. It's freedom. It's called what kind of country we are going to be, what kind of country we're going to have.
--Rush Limbaugh
If you're still undecided, inform yourself on the issues and on each candidate's character and the company they keep. Get outside the usual media loop; check the blogs and watch the YouTube videos. If you're still unsure, pick an issue--mine happen to be life and national security--and see where the evidence leads you. Go to your state's voter information site (like VOTEXAS) to find out about your rights as a voter as well as information about polling places. And pray.
If you genuinely feel that you cannot in good conscience vote in this election, that's between you and God. If you're deathly ill, don't kill yourself to get to the polls. But do not let ANYTHING else--the media, peer pressure, inconvenience, weather, minor ill health, apathy [aka sloth, one of the Seven Deadlies], fear--keep you out of that voting booth.
And remember, no one has to know how you voted. In Texas it's a felony for a poll worker to reveal how someone votes.
All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.
--Gandalf
GO VOTE.
All these other polls and so forth, they don't matter until the votes are in and then we know whether they're right or wrong but we're not going to know that 'til all the votes are in. Everybody says, "Rush, I'm just one vote. It doesn't matter." Maybe, taken singularly, you might say that. Let's say in your state, Obama wins by three points, then you could say, "Yeah, Rush, see? It wouldn't have mattered if I'd voted for McCain." Well, the problem with that is, what if there's a hundred of you, or what if there's a thousand of you? What if there's a hundred thousand of you that decide your one vote doesn't count? It's folly to say your vote doesn't matter and doesn't count. So all you can do is show up and vote, regardless your mood, regardless how they've tried to suppress, depress you, and dispirit you. Folks, you've got every reason to show up and support. It's called liberty. It's freedom. It's called what kind of country we are going to be, what kind of country we're going to have.
--Rush Limbaugh
If you're still undecided, inform yourself on the issues and on each candidate's character and the company they keep. Get outside the usual media loop; check the blogs and watch the YouTube videos. If you're still unsure, pick an issue--mine happen to be life and national security--and see where the evidence leads you. Go to your state's voter information site (like VOTEXAS) to find out about your rights as a voter as well as information about polling places. And pray.
If you genuinely feel that you cannot in good conscience vote in this election, that's between you and God. If you're deathly ill, don't kill yourself to get to the polls. But do not let ANYTHING else--the media, peer pressure, inconvenience, weather, minor ill health, apathy [aka sloth, one of the Seven Deadlies], fear--keep you out of that voting booth.
And remember, no one has to know how you voted. In Texas it's a felony for a poll worker to reveal how someone votes.
All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.
--Gandalf
GO VOTE.
