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Today is Election Day, America.

I know you’re tired of all the ads.

I know you’re sick of politics on every level.

Now, it’s time to vote. I don’t care how cynical you are. I don’t care how jaded, disillusioned, or alienated you feel. You’re American, damn it! This is what it means to be an American!

You don’t lie down and accept the current state of affairs. You don’t just whine, bitch, and moan about it on social media. You get off your ass, you go to the polls, and you do something. It may not feel like much. Given the many flaws of our voting system, it often doesn’t amount to much. But it’s still worth doing.

It’s not because your vote is the most important vote in the country.

It’s not because this election is the most important election of your life.

Voting is simply the right thing to do in a democracy, full stop. And before any of you smartass libertarians chime in and say America is a republic, not a democracy, let me just say one thing.

First off, fuck you! Fuck you and your never-ending effort to enable the worst reactionaries of every political ideology in the name of your bullshit notion of actual freedom.

Second, America is a democracy. Specifically, it’s a republic with democratic representation. It cannot be a functioning republic without democracy. And it can’t be a democracy without a functioning republic. That functionality only manifests when you actually vote.

It doesn’t have to have a deeper political meaning beyond that. But if that’s still not enough for you, then I’m sorry. You’re a shitty excuse for an American and you might be better off moving to a country that treats voting, laws, and human rights the same way you treat toilet paper.

If it sounds like I’m being more harsh than usual, that’s because I am. I’ll even admit that my faith in American democracy, the state of the world, and the human race as a whole has never been lower. I’m at a point right now where I don’t expect things to get better. I don’t have hope for a better future. I expect things to get worse and I expect entropy to inevitably do its thing to this country I love.

But I’m still going to vote.

I’m still going to do my part for America today.

I don’t need a reason beyond what I’ve just laid out. If you need me to give you more, then that’s your problem.

We’re still Americans. We still love our country. We still value its ideals, no matter what our political leanings might be.

So be a good American and go vote!