Yes! It Matters-Go VOTE!

            “Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.”     ~Susan B. Anthony

Confession, I admit it-for the majority of  my voting life I did not vote.  I didn't believe I could make a difference.  I didn't think it mattered. I didn't believe in the process. I didn't like who was running.  I didn't think voting in my state changed anything...I didn't vote. I grew up in post-Watergate America and that framed my political socialization.  Then I grew up!  I realized what we all have to see, what my Father tried to tell me for years, if you don't participate don't complain!...and now I live in a country that frightens me more everyday.  So I can hide under the covers, or I can get up off the couch as Barack told us, and VOTE! 

Hope you do the same.

 “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” ~Plato

Numb is Now the Norm

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference...  

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."  Elie Wiesel

 It is unacceptable that horror,madness, and unspeakable grief have become the norm in this world. The cycle just repeats itself again, and again, and again...Violence and hate have literally become political weapons. Lives are lost and we don't budge an inch. We are simply numb to it, we have ceased to be shocked, and that cannot be how any civilization can survive. 

"Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe." Elie Wiesel