vote
hey folks, I do this every year; you should be used to this by now.
It’s election day. Do your civic duty and go vote. It is, absolutely, the least you can do to fulfill your side of the social contract that is democracy (or constitutional republic-cy, or whatever it is that we have).
Yes, it’s an off-year election, and there’s nothing sexy happening in most places. My answer for that is that the non-sexy races are actually the ones that probably matter the most to you. These local elections are the ones that determine what happens in your backyard – your kids’ school, your municipal taxes, things that directly affect your neighborhood. In the scheme of things, the people who sit on your local school board have a heck of a lot more of an affect on your actual life than does the President of the United States, so it behooves you to take a few minutes (the internet makes this embarassingly easy) to know who’s on your ballot and go mark the thing at your local polling place.
for example, my ballot this year has my state legislators, school board, and a bunch of county offices. Not high profile, necessarily, but important. Other social media friends of mine all over the place have been making noise about some of their local races on the friendface this year as well. You all can’t imagine how happy this makes me feel. It gets me right in the civic duty feels.
So, y’know…go vote and stuff.
