I Appreciate Your Support As An Individual And Will Gladly Accept You As An Ally, With Respect
But I Must Also Distance Myself From The Farce Of Celebrity Endorsements At This Time
They Have Propped Up Idols For Us To Identify With
When This One Or That One Buys A House, We Look At Photos Of The House
When This One Or That One Goes On A Date, We Publish A Record In Print
They Stand Together Outside Of The Cage, Buying Houses And Going On Dates, And We Run Toward Them On Our Spinning Wheels, Believing We Will Reach Them And Finally Rest
And The Wheels Power Their Houses And Their Dates
Then We Fall Asleep And Dream That We Are Not In A Cage
not voting isn’t refusing to play the game. You’re in this country, you’re subject to the game whether you like it or not. The only way not to play is to leave, and the vast majority of us don’t have that option.
Not voting is playing the game but saying ‘pass’ every time your turn comes up and then wondering why you lost.
Making young people not vote is actually a tactic used in politics to keep the satus quo. The young vote is always the one for change, so dissuading them from voting at all is actually a political tactic used by the people in charge to keep themselves there.
