Today is election day, and for the last couple of weeks with the early voting, my friends and family have been talking about how they voted and why, and overwhelmingly, it seems that their reasoning is based on things that are, in the big picture, insignificant.
We are being inundated with lies and negativity so that we ultimately have no basis of truth to base our vote on, and so even the most informed voter is likely to be making a misinformed decision. We have a two party system that offers very little room for negotiation on the fundamentals, and so more and more I am finding that neither side represents me. I want candidates who are neither staunch conservatives nor bleeding heart liberals, but rather a mix of all values.
I am tired of supporting such a system and so this year I have decided to abstain from voting. My silence is not apathy or ignorance, but anger. I am tired of feeling so impotent, and so this is my attempt to alleviate that feeling. If I shout from the mountain tops and all the hears me is the trees, than I am satisfied with having tried.
