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An Election Eve Posting
Nov. 8th, 2016 12:21 amIf you have not done the civic requirement, and you are eligible to do so, please do. Your employer, if they have you working during the complete time the polls are open, must give you time to vote.
If you witness intimidation, you can report it to your poll officials.
You do not have to vote for a major party candidate of you do not wish to. Anyone who gives you shit about it or talks about tactical voting should be given an earful about how a better voting system would stop such considerations.
Your polling places, as well as everything else in your life, should be accessible.
Anyway, here are things for you to consider.
The ascendancy and mindset of the Republican candidate, where he is exactly a product of his environment.
His statements can be made into cross-stitch. Or transformed into satirical columns.
His supporters suggest women don't need the vote, and they have negative opinions of the nonwhite, to a Godwin degree, immigrants, non-Christians, black people, the not-straight, the thought of a woman making decisions for men, or just about anything that isn't them or what FOX News says they should support.
(They're also being sold a bill of goods that promises the return of the good life to the small town they grew up in. Or the return of being able to ignore everything that isn't white and straight and wealthy.)
Comparing him to a Great Old One makes the horror from beyond look good. He needs fanfic writers. He brags about sexually assaulting women, then tries to pass it off as nothing at all.
There's been a lot of utter shit uttered in the debates. And boorish behavior when not lying or worse. (So much so that it got scored by Danny Elfman.)
If you've been wondering where the positive press for the Democratic candidate is, here's your roundup of the pro-Hilary things that you can see, because media coverage is going to be lacking. Of things that aren't satire. Even though a lot of voters like her.
Plenty of politicians prefer to blame anything but themselves and the rich as to why you aren't rich.
If you want progressive candidates on the ballot at the top, support them or become them at the bottom.
Just remember, election stress lasts only for one more day. Afterward, it's post-election stress.
If you witness intimidation, you can report it to your poll officials.
You do not have to vote for a major party candidate of you do not wish to. Anyone who gives you shit about it or talks about tactical voting should be given an earful about how a better voting system would stop such considerations.
Your polling places, as well as everything else in your life, should be accessible.
Anyway, here are things for you to consider.
The ascendancy and mindset of the Republican candidate, where he is exactly a product of his environment.
His statements can be made into cross-stitch. Or transformed into satirical columns.
His supporters suggest women don't need the vote, and they have negative opinions of the nonwhite, to a Godwin degree, immigrants, non-Christians, black people, the not-straight, the thought of a woman making decisions for men, or just about anything that isn't them or what FOX News says they should support.
(They're also being sold a bill of goods that promises the return of the good life to the small town they grew up in. Or the return of being able to ignore everything that isn't white and straight and wealthy.)
Comparing him to a Great Old One makes the horror from beyond look good. He needs fanfic writers. He brags about sexually assaulting women, then tries to pass it off as nothing at all.
There's been a lot of utter shit uttered in the debates. And boorish behavior when not lying or worse. (So much so that it got scored by Danny Elfman.)
If you've been wondering where the positive press for the Democratic candidate is, here's your roundup of the pro-Hilary things that you can see, because media coverage is going to be lacking. Of things that aren't satire. Even though a lot of voters like her.
Plenty of politicians prefer to blame anything but themselves and the rich as to why you aren't rich.
If you want progressive candidates on the ballot at the top, support them or become them at the bottom.
Just remember, election stress lasts only for one more day. Afterward, it's post-election stress.
