Today was a proud day for me. My daughter voted! It's her first time and she was a bit confused by some of it but she did great and I'm so proud of her. It's a regional election (city/county) but every bit as important as the "big" November election.
It still stuns me when I realize that women were given the right to vote when my grandmother was a young woman. I wish I'd thought to ask her what she thought of the amendment being passed.
So here we are, almost 88 years later (the amendment was ratified Aug. 18, 1920), and I'm trying to pass on to my daughter, and my son when he turns 18, the heavy privilege that voting is. If we don't vote, we silence ourselves.
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BRAVO!! And the only way our government is closest to its ideal form of representational government is if we all demand to be represented...So yay for Meg and for democracy. Maybe if more people actually got off the couch and voted, our country could get out of the mess its in now...
Those "little" races are much more important than people often think; it's easy to forget that we're a representative democracy, not a direct one.
There have been enough close races lately decided not by the "popular" vote, but by the electoral process.
We can't afford to overlook who we put into office at any level, because they may be the ones deciding something as significant as who our next president will be...
Love you, Meg! Rock the Vote! :)
I remember when both of my daughters first voted. It's a great feeling to see your offspring being good citizens!
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