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It’s Hard To Believe in Voting
But I go and do it anyway.
Well, I needn’t have worried about the masses at the polling place
I was the only one in the big room at the Travis County Community Center building. The only one but the 5 volunteers, chilling out behind their plexiglass screens. It was 3 pm on July 14th. This is the election to determine who gets to be on the ticket for state office in the coming fall election. There was literally no one in the parking lot, the lobby, the line, or the actual polling room.
But I can understand why. The pandemic seems to have all but paralyzed the bureaucracy of government mechanisms, as this article in the Texas Tribune highlights.
Honestly, my mind is blown by the idea that there are people who are still willing to attempt a go at public service via politics in the current system in this day and age.
Are they crazy?
I know that famous people with a conscience have been urging me to vote for my whole life. But I have to state that I don’t believe in the values and structures on which the current systems of human beings are running.
I don’t believe in a system that is based on the warped pursuit of profit over health…
