Random Rant- Stop trying to rock my vote

Okay, okay. I know this isn’t going to be a very popular opinion.

But.

There. I said it.

While I’m getting things off my chest, if this is your idea about how to campaign for someone-

I call this #maggotmodeactivation. Still amazed they didn’t bother to engage in any way. OK, amazed and disappointed.

 

Then you probably shouldn’t be doing that, either.

I’m not denying that voting is extremely important- it IS! But it isn’t the be all and end all of civic duty.. and at the end of the day, there’s a pretty good chance that whoever you cast your ballot for isn’t going to win (especially if you happen to be me, go go gadget jinxAri).

But you know, no matter who wins, it is still their job to represent you. How are you holding them accountable? Are you taking part in the dialogue, or are you just passively sitting back and letting them tell you they’ll do one thing, then vote another? Or do you just not notice anything any official does until election year, when you’re bombarded with the ads and the articles.

Six local candidates left their literature on my door step, next to my No Soliciting sign. Do you know in a matter of minutes I managed to reach out to each one of them and tell them how they had cost themselves my vote… and not just for this race, but any race.

Four of them answered with apologies. Two couldn’t be bothered. None of them offered any kind of a reason why their campaign was more important than my stated desire to avoid their literature.