VOTE

Things that make me angry:

Knowing that so little of my friends and family vote.
When people try to make me feel badly about paying attention to politics and the news.
When I'm looked at as 'less fun' because I can explain what's going on in the world.
When someone who doesn't read or clearly has no idea what they're talking about cannot admit that they are wrong or change their views with new information.

Some say that we shouldn't vote because nothing ever changes.  They also say that one side isn't better than the other because they're all liars and crooks.  I say that there is one thing more damaging to us than all of this divisiveness and that is complacency.  I can guarantee you that if everyone took the time to pay attention, to understand, to communicate, and then to VOTE, this world would be a much better place.  We would change things from the bottom-up instead of being controlled from the top-down.  Elections matter.  Isn't that what having a democracy is really all about?