By onestormynight
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Historically, I've voted as a Democrat. Over the past couple of decades, I've stopped voting altogether. This was due in part to the last presidential election where I voted. It was the year 2000 when Al Gore was running against George Bush Jr. That whole "hanging chad" fiasco was a real turnoff.
I think it was by the next election that electronic voting was available. And during other campaigns, with local precincts discontinued, we had to vote in the meet-and-greet area of a local church. I'm not a vampire. I don't turn to dust upon entering upon sanctified ground. I just felt it defied the tradition of "the separation of church and state."
Now there are mail in ballots as an option along with voting in person or online. I find these options equally as awkward and yet somehow strangely empowering.
My ballot arrived late this week. I wondered if it too, as much of my other mail, hadn't gotten lost or somehow redirected - I've recently moved from a different county. Meanwhile, amidst the bluster and cacaphony of Trump's rhetoric this past week was the charge that everything Democrats touch "turns to ----."
It convinced me that in addition to his role as supreme rabble rouser and provocateur, Trump is also at his very core an abuser and possibly more importantly, a victim of abuse. I can only imagine an exasperated Trump Sr. exclaiming that same line to some doomed undertaking by his junior offspring.
I was going to vote early and cast my ballot in a nearby drop box. My candidate of choice is Kamala Harris. But in my role as supreme victim, Trumps words stopped me in my tracks.
What if, by voting early, I somehow impacted the momentum of the campaign or the entire voting process? After all, I would have cast my vote and so I could now turn my attention to other things. Would the entire country then go to hell "while men slept?" Was this all just a victim's hypervigilence?
This 2024 campaign is really important, not just to the rest of the country and the democratic process and the US Constitution, but it's important because I became a registered voter again, this time undeclared.
I registered specifically to vote for Nicky Haley in the primaries, and so I registered neither as a republican or a democrat. What struck my about Nicky Haley was her clarity and reason, and her experience as a US Ambassador. At that time, the candidates were Biden and Trump.
What if I had somehow jinxed the primaries? Am I being as deluded as Trump?
When I voted in the primaries, I was registered in a different county. I have since changed my address and my voter's reg, but what if there was a "mix up?"
What is apparent to anyone watching the progress of the campaigns, they at least make for higher news ratings. Trump republican supporters continuously discount his outrageous claims, accusations, and insults as merely Trump as the commander-and-chief provacateur.
His supporters dismiss his promise to retaliate against political foes once elected as nothing but rhetoric. But how can any of us trust his supporters' discounts when January 6 happened? And he wasn't even the Commander-in-Chief.
What is it about claiming to be the Father of IVF and promising he would protect all women rings true?
He has been publicly claiming to have done just the opposite of what reality, history, and the recent memories of any voting citizen hold as the truth. This applies to claims of improved economy, immigration measures, and his presidential performance under any kind of threat or pressure - see Covid and January 6. Yet clearly it's not ringing false.
Just what demographic does Trump and his followers believe he's appealing to? And who's drinking the Kool Aid?
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