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I Vote Therefore I Am
Today is November 3, 2020. Election Day in the United States.
Today’s results plus the results of millions of mail-in ballots and early voting over the last few weeks will determine the next 4 years of our country.
It is my civic duty and honestly, my own sense of pride and hope for a better future.
I’ve always thought about the idea that you have no right to complain about how things are going if you’re not doing anything at all to try to make things better.
Voting is one of the simplest things you can do to try to make change and be part of a new solution.
Every election cycle, people ask themselves: Does it matter? Does MY vote matter? Will anything change? Will it even affect me?
It matters.
How can you be sure it matters? Well, numbers don’t lie. There have been districts that have crazy close numbers in the past, even whole states with close numbers.
But the biggest way to know it matters is to look at the last 4 years.
Trump got elected and even he was surprised. But he wasted exactly zero time and started tearing down people’s rights, raising taxes for everyone except the wealthy, giving businesses tax breaks, not getting Mexico to “pay for the wall” and then building only very small…
