Early Voting Opens in Iowa

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By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.

– 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞

𝐈 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥, 𝐛𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭.

Today, early voting star ts in Iowa. You can register to vote online, and even if you are not registered, you can still register and vote on election day itself.

Today’s quote is from David Foster Wallace, who is an American author who, in 2000, was tasked by Rolling Stone with following the Presidential campaign of Senator John McCain, despite explicitly stating he was NOT A POLIGICAL JOURNALIST, and I absolutely loved this quote in his final article.

As I have written on the topic in the past, I will point to my last post on the importance of voting:
“In 2022, 1.22 million voters cast a ballot in the gubernatorial race while 1.66 million cast a ballot for the presidential race in 2024. According to the federal register, Iowa has a voting age population of nearly 2.5 million people, meaning over 30% of the eligible population did not vote in recent elections.”

It is easy to be frustrated by nothing but attack ads, preposterous campaign spending, or simply thinking that politics is a team sport.

Please don’t let that frustration boil over into apathy.

Get to the polls.