I am so ready for the election to be over. Social media, especially during this current election has turned into a place where unfortunately a tremendous amount of people seem to go to for information and believe it as fact when more often than not... it is not.
I thought the country was the most divided when we elected our first (clutching my pearls) black man as president. Not to mention the hoopla about his birth certificate. Ridiculous, unfounded and totally debunked. But I was wrong.
Here's my take, for what it's worth. (as my momma would say, "probably amounts to a hill of beans")
It doesn't matter who you vote for...it matters that you vote. Every time.
If each and every single person able to register did so, and went to cast their ballot every single time, we would see amazing changes in this country. And trust me, it would be good for all of us.
Don't worry about big wig politicians and their voices, very rarely are they actually about our best interests, and more often than not guided by an agenda of very deep pockets who couldn't care less about us, the little guy.
In these days and times we seem to be simply left with choosing the lesser of evils...and my choice was made and ballot cast with no regrets from me. Not one.
I am a woman. I have three children who I love dearly. They didn't choose me but I certainly chose them.
No government is going to nor should be able to tell me what to do with my body.
Julia Louis Dreyfus said it best in the HBO show, Veep.
"If a man could get pregnant you'd be able to get an abortion at an ATM."
Funny line in a make believe show but a spot on observation.
No man, any politician or judge should have any say in the hardest decision a woman has to make about her own body. Until they start legislating what a man can do with his ding dong, leave my cooter out of it.
Enough said.
OMG then there's this issue. We are the immigrants, every single one of us except for Native Americans.
Trust me most of the people trying to bust through our borders are as desperate as we were when we landed here and (unlawfully) claimed this country as our own.
Let's call a spade a spade...absolutely no pun intended. Although we did import Africans as slaves to help us do back breaking work here in our newly acquired country stolen from the people already living here, not to mention we didn't even consider them full humans and wanted to kill every Indian we came across.
Not a good look.
I'm not talking social media bunk or misinformative Insta or TikTok posts. I am simply stating facts. Real ones.
When you (hopefully) go into that polling booth on Tuesday, you need to keep this all in mind.
The rest is all somewhat solvable. History is not.
Remember the past and vote for the future.
Till next time, COTTON
