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2024-11-04 00:50![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
southernmedicineTomorrow is Election Day, and I guess I just felt like venting.
Whatever happens, I will be so happy for this election cycle to be over and done. I'm just so tired.
I'm tired of people behaving like their absolute worst selves.
I'm tired of my community making absolutely everything political when it isn't (ie: "Did you hear another house in the neighborhood was burglarized? That's what you get when you keep voting in liberals!" Literally HUH???).
I'm tired of our mailbox being absolutely CRAMMED, on the daily, with political fliers. Most of these were made by members of the community and instead of listing good things about each candidate, they only ever mention bad things about the other.
I'm tired of receiving call after call after call, day after day after day, that are all automated voice recordings from both CA governor candidates, each slinging mud at the other.
I'm tired of people literally COMING TO OUR HOUSE IN PERSON, and KNOCKING ON OUR DOOR trying to badger us into voting for their chosen candidate.
This is all so much more annoying to me because I already voted, I already voted a long time ago. California has early mail-in ballots that we received over a week ago. I did all my research on all the measures, I checked out every candidate, I took my time and I paid attention and I voted my conscience, which I hope everyone else also did or will do come tomorrow. I am not interested in being harassed and lectured especially when it will make absolutely zero difference as my ballot was walked last week straight into the lobby of the local post office and placed safely in the slot.
Am I absolutely terrified of the potential outcome? Abso-fuckin-lutely I am. But I am ready for this whole thing to be over. And when it is? We're going to need to look out for one another and work together to make this a better place. Steady on, friends.
Whatever happens, I will be so happy for this election cycle to be over and done. I'm just so tired.
I'm tired of people behaving like their absolute worst selves.
I'm tired of my community making absolutely everything political when it isn't (ie: "Did you hear another house in the neighborhood was burglarized? That's what you get when you keep voting in liberals!" Literally HUH???).
I'm tired of our mailbox being absolutely CRAMMED, on the daily, with political fliers. Most of these were made by members of the community and instead of listing good things about each candidate, they only ever mention bad things about the other.
I'm tired of receiving call after call after call, day after day after day, that are all automated voice recordings from both CA governor candidates, each slinging mud at the other.
I'm tired of people literally COMING TO OUR HOUSE IN PERSON, and KNOCKING ON OUR DOOR trying to badger us into voting for their chosen candidate.
This is all so much more annoying to me because I already voted, I already voted a long time ago. California has early mail-in ballots that we received over a week ago. I did all my research on all the measures, I checked out every candidate, I took my time and I paid attention and I voted my conscience, which I hope everyone else also did or will do come tomorrow. I am not interested in being harassed and lectured especially when it will make absolutely zero difference as my ballot was walked last week straight into the lobby of the local post office and placed safely in the slot.
Am I absolutely terrified of the potential outcome? Abso-fuckin-lutely I am. But I am ready for this whole thing to be over. And when it is? We're going to need to look out for one another and work together to make this a better place. Steady on, friends.
