Vote. It’s the Most Important Thing You Can Do

It’s Election Day in the United States. We have an important choice to make and a vital task to complete. If you haven’t voted yet, you have hours left to get your ballot in.

I voted a straight Blue ticket. It’s the only reasonable choice, and I would have made it even if George W. Bush’s disastrous reign hadn’t already pushed me left. All of my life, I’ve watched Republicans become steadily more anti-democracy, anti-science, anti-reason, anti-LGBTQ, anti-diversity, and anti-woman.

Those tendencies culminated in Trump, who has at times actually made me nostalgic for the Bush era.Trump has been an utter disaster for our country. He has been a disaster for science, for our public lands, for public education, and for democracy. He is a racist bully who has emboldened white supremacists. He ripped children away from their parents, and now hundreds of them may never be reunited. He has cozied up to dictators while pushing away on allies. He’s… well, a list of his sins would keep us here through election night.

And Republicans have enabled him all the way.

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