{"id":2563,"date":"2021-11-02T13:42:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2021-11-02T13:42:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:42:24","slug":"vote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"VOTE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is election day in Virginia and a few other states\u2026. we\u2019ve all heard that voting is our civic duty. But do we really take that seriously? I\u2019ve mentioned before that I\u2019ve lived in places where elections were not fair or there were <em>no<\/em> elections. I think if everyone had those experiences we wouldn\u2019t have such a lackadaisical attitude about voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think voting is more important today than anytime in my adult life. I truly don\u2019t understand why people would not vote. One reason I hear often is that people don\u2019t believe their vote counts \u2014 no matter if you vote, there is corruption and nothing will change. OK \u2014 let\u2019s say you don\u2019t vote on voting day. Voter turnout is low, which invariably favors the incumbents \u2014 the very people you\u2019re not happy with. You\u2019re unhappy, you didn\u2019t vote, and they get re-elected. The bottom line is that the candidates that you believe could have best represented you don\u2019t get into office \u2014 and you are still discouraged with the government. If you continue to do this, how do you expect things to bet better? There are three words you hear every election year and they say it all: Your. Vote. Counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every adult citizen of the United States should exercise their right to vote in every election. People have died to establish this right \u2014 to be heard and have a say in electing the best administration for future generations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People that don\u2019t vote but complain about how the government is run are hypocrites. You have to earn your right to complain. Go vote \u2014 what do you have to lose?<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is election day in Virginia and a few other states\u2026. we\u2019ve all heard that voting is our civic duty. But do we really take that seriously? I\u2019ve mentioned before that I\u2019ve lived in places where elections were not fair &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}