Being A Good American!

[tbradsim1]

I'm still waiting for them good Highways, that we were promised with the Tobbaco & Gasoline taxes collected. Guess it went into The General Fund and The General spent it. ::

 

[ophiuchus]

Early voting in Illinois. I voted a week before last Friday. Even that early, in my north Chicago neighborhood, there was an hour long line at the polling station. I was gratified to see how many of my neighbors participated. :D

 

[instymp]

Voted early 2 weeks ago. Good luck Brad!!! Thanks for posting.

 

[tinsel]

Voted on my lunch break, because it's my RIGHT and my DUTY to do so.
But it didn't make me feel like "a good American". It made me feel like a hamster on a wheel. What a mess we are in, here.
And before you ask, YES, I also voted in the primary.

 

[wyfbane]

I voted almost as many times as my late grandfather did today...
:rofl:

 

[deathmetal]

But it didn't make me feel like "a good American". It made me feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Maybe you're on to something.
Wonder how the ancient Athenians felt?

 

[jefff]

I voted.. I always vote. Every time someone tells their vote doesn't matter I think that if everyone who could vote did, those votes would matter.

 

[didimauw]

I voted right before work at 345pm. Stopped at the gas station like every day, and it was packed. Guy in front of me had lottery tickets to figure out, do everything separately, blah blah, as I'm watching the clock... Ran a block over to vote, had to register with new address...watching the clock...tick tick...finally done voting, drove 90 mph the whole way to work just to make it on time...AMERICA!!!

 

[danielplainview]

I did my part to save 'Merica.
Got 4 people to register and vote who had never participated before.

 

[ashdigger]

Excellent Dave!!

 

[jmill208]

I held my nose and voted. What a mess.

 

[ssjones]

I'm a election official in our county, I just got home. (left at 5:30 AM, home at 10:30 Pm). For that, I get the satisfaction of helping my community in an non-partisan way (my wife works for a MD politician, so I get enough politics!). And, as a judge, they pay me $200 which will go towards a new pipe of some sort.
I voted last week, we have early voting in Maryland.

 

[ashdigger]

Jmill, you spelled "sewage spill" wrong. :mrgreen:

 

[pipesmokingtom]

I'm astounded at the turnouts. Which is good. It may or may not go my way, but it certainly is surprising.

 

[gloucesterman]

If you don't think your vote matters just imagine what it would be like if we didn't hold the inside Beltway crew accountable every few years!!!

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

If there's any lesson that I hope the American people learn, it's that you need more parties running. Right now there is no middle ground.

Everyone needs to learn to work together.

 

[warren]

The two party system was developed to prevent that very situation. Decisions are supposed to be arrived at after serious and sometimes acrimonious debate. Our, the US, form of a Democratic-Republic is supposed to be messy and abrasive. It should be very, very hard to enact new laws as any law reduces someone's freedom. No, governing should be messy, noisy, and sometimes vicious. If everyone put aside their core beliefs to work together, or get along, all we would get is comfortable mediocrity.

 

[wyfbane]

^So much THIS! People have lost the understanding of this. Now we get college classes cancelled because teachers are too distraught to go on when their candidate loses and safe rooms are made in public schools as trauma centers for kids who cannot process the election results without hysteria. I am not making this up.

 

[skraps]

What is disheartening to me is how many people my age (mid-30's) have ZERO clue about their local elections. They have no concept of how important those elections are. More so than the President in my opinion.
They need to get civics and social studies back into our classrooms.

 

[ashdigger]

But, I got a participation ribbon, I'm special.