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(Don't) Go Vote!
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Liberals have built their current party on wide-sweeping “get out the vote” efforts for the past two decades. Even before social media became our main mode of communication, I remember concerted efforts to get young people to vote through local events, TV commercials, or blogging and email campaigns. I caught onto the game pretty quickly. Liberals thought that if they could simply get enough young, uneducated, illogical people to vote, they would win. They bet on the odds that if they could get someone under age 30 to vote, they would vote blue. If these young voters are already brainwashed by public education and progressive colleges and are now young adults who can be easily manipulated by emotional social media messaging, the Democrats could build a party with a high volume of voters with very little intelligence on true political issues. As a conservative, I will rarely admonish people to “go vote.” No, thank you. As I’ve been trying to encourage people to vote and vote early, this election, I’ve had to think through who I want to target, so I don’t accidentally send Kamala voters to the polls.
But if you don’t fall into these categories, I actually don’t care if you vote. Because I want people to head to the polls because they share the same values that I do. I am voting... ~ To maintain my First Amendment rights to speak freely and worship God. ~ To stop any momentum toward the federal legalization of abortion ~ To protect my four beautiful daughters by keeping them safe in bathrooms and locker rooms and maybe even giving them a chance to grow up playing sports like I did ~ To close the border, even just an inch ~ To stop sending money abroad so we can afford life at home They say it’s not about who you vote for, it’s what you vote for. But if you can’t figure out the difference between who wants you to be free and who only wants you to be free to kill your own child, you probably shouldn't vote. Please stay home. To share this post, copy this link! |
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The Truth Teller is where I try to discern what's true in the current cultural moment. If you like what you read here, I'd be honored if you share it with a friend.
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