VOTE TODAY!

I was reminded by a close friend the other day to please vote on Tuesday and that “There’s a lot at stake in this year’s election...”   I could not agree more.

After reading a column that she sent with her plea to vote, I thought to myself, isn’t a lot at stake in every election?  If only every eligible voter looked at every election as a crucial election with a lot at stake, maybe we would not reach the point where one particular election is described as having “a lot at stake.”

Americans take their right to vote for their government representatives for granted and generally don't vet candidates themselves, accepting what the so-called mainstream media chooses to feed us. 

We should never forget that a lot of Americans have fought and died to protect our individual rights, but our freedoms are directly linked to our right to vote. And that includes your right to vote for local school board members and all the way up the political totem pole to President of the United States of America.

I’ll leave you with this quote attributed to who many historians consider the Father of the American Revolution.

SAMUEL ADAMS, Founding memberThe Sons of Liberty.“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.”

—Samuel Adams, in the Boston Gazette, 1781