The purpose of our vote (#2057)

One vote may seem insignificant in a country that has over 300 million citizens in it but history has shown that when we ignore our dutiful right to vote bad things often occur. Especially when a majority of our citizenry sit out elections. There are undercurrents of dishonesty that have the wherewithall to effectively propagandize enough voters to their illusory message that bad policy that only enriches the wealthy is all too often passed into law. As well as too many of the wrong candidates for public office are elected in order to fulfill agendas that are ill-serving to the majority of us. In all honesty, I have not wasted my vote and bad things still happen. However the few of us who consistently vote, at times, are not enough to overcome discouraging outcomes because too many have not chosen to vote. Don't be one who chooses not to vote. Your future is at stake whether you can see it or not. For the ones we put into office have a profound ability to decide the economic, social and political state we must live within. Our candidates for office are the ones, when elected, that decide our future by either passing laws that help us on whole or they pass laws that only help a few, such as the wealthy, while the rest of us non-wealthy are stuck with less than nothing of value to guide our futures. I do not have the words to describe the feelings I have about our right to vote. Every soldier who has ever fought and or died fighting in a war has been fighting for our right to vote. Every protester who has given their life in the name of the cause they vehemently either oppose or support, has given their life for our right to vote. Our democracy is the precious gift our founding fathers/mothers gave us and to not exercise the nature of this gift is rude and disrespectful to not only the defenders of our democracy but to who we are as Americans.