Tonight my own daughter broke my heart. On Facebook she announced that she is not voting.

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65. and one other thing to bring up

Oh and tell her that it's been this way from the beginning of time. So should we all just go back to the first election and decide to not participate?
She cannot deny that women have come so very far and so many wonderful changes have occurred over the generations while big money played apart of the elections!

I don't want to offend your daughter but she sounds as if she is very young and just got her very first lesson in corruption. Usually that temporarily kills the big ideas youth have when first going out into the world.
But at her age I wonder if this is just an excuse?

By our 30's we are all aware that these elections are just a game, the tear running down the face of the opponent while he/she speaks about poverty is so fake BUT he/she is willing to do something about poverty and because of that I couldn't care less if his/her tears are real or not.
I just want action, I am not so naive as to hope for action and to hope that that action is being done because of a genuine need to put an end to poverty.
As if...

The majority of the people in office have no idea about the struggles of the real world. About living paycheck to paycheck, unable to take your child to the doctor unless they are REALLY sick because you just can't afford it and because your lousy boss won't give you the time off. They think immigrants come here to steal jobs from us, they have no idea that they came here so their children won't die.

But we don't need for them to be in those situations, we only need for them to know that their is a demand and they have the product we need to fit that demand. We need for them to know that we will put them in office if they agree to our demand. That's all, and so we the people use them. They are like chess pieces to us, we use them to get what we want and they use us to get their nice comfy seats in office.