Hit the polls, your vote really counts

Today is election day so be sure to vote. I generally vote for the loser but every once in a while my person wins. Many of us don’t think our vote counts but the voting booth is the one place where we are all equal. A poor person’s opinion counts just as much as a rich person’s. There are no tests asking if we have researched the issues. 

One of the few things that  upsets me about voting is when I am greeted by name then am  asked to show my identification. I know it is required but it just seems so unnecessary. 

For all of the people who want to “drain the swamp” I say quit voting for the incumbent. As long as we keep voting for the same people nothing will change.

Better yet, if we don’t like our options then I have the perfect solution. Why don’t you run for office? I would love to have more choices on the ballot. I would also like to be able to vote for a particular person rather than against the other guy. 

While I am complaining, how about we stop this foolishness of getting all upset over nothing. Personally, I don’t care if there are drag queens among us. The prettiest woman I have ever seen was a guy. He was a customer in a sandwich shop where I worked at the time. He came in, ordered his food, ate and left without causing any problems at all. 

What I would like to see is a reasonable solution to all these mass murders taking place in our country. What is there about our country that says it is perfectly acceptable to shoot at a random bunch of people? It has become so common that the story of the latest shooting ends up on an inside page of the newspaper. 

I am much more concerned about innocents dying than I am about some guy playing dress up. I don’t mean that as an insult. If there wasn’t a demand for that kind of entertainment, then all the drag queens would live quietly in the background.

Then there is the issue of banning books. Yes, there are books that are not appropriate for young children. I don’t understand why certain books are banned. Why on earth can’t we read “Tom Sawyer” or “Huckleberry Finn” and explain exactly why the language therein is objectionable? 

My grandson’s teachers are considering whether or not to have the class read “To Kill a Mockingbird.” He is a freshman in high school. The reasoning is that it might upset the children. 

I would certainly hope it would upset them. Isn’t that part of the purpose of school, to teach children how to handle injustice? 

None of the candidates, local or national, have a valid plan to decrease the availability of weapons designed to kill. I haven’t read of anyone who opposes book banning. There are hundreds of problems just waiting to be remedied.

Instead they focus on what I think are nonsense issues. Or, if by some chance, they do contemplate a serious problem, they vote along party lines instead of voting before or against the issue itself.

I am done ranting now. So get out there and vote if you haven’t already. Your  opinion really does count.