RE: 2018: The first year anyone has ever cared about the mid-term elections
I've always wondered about that when I see a sea of signs across a field or a street corner. I want to know who is voting based on those signs and I wonder if their voting privileges should be revoked. Well, not really but what a waste. Better not to vote than to do zero research and vote based on a colorful sign.
I keep saying to some old friends of mine how I miss the days when I was a kid and didn't know the difference between right and left, liberal and conservative. Back then I had friends from both sides of the aisle and we would just agree or disagree about certain things and that would be the end of it.
Not anymore though. I disagreed with one of my cousins and he literally told me that my opinion didn't matter because I wasn't a real American. His reasoning was that I had spent a couple years living in Mexico, and a couple years off and on in England. Clearly I was a bit of a traitor and couldn't think clearly about what was best for our country. Real Americans don't ever leave America, apparently.
This was a kid who I was extremely close to growing up. I am so fed up with all of this crap.
PS - This midterm was my first time ever voting for midterm elections.
Yeah, i get told that my opines don't get to carry full weight because I spend most of my time i live outside of the USA. I guess I didn't realize that our opinions were weighted like that. Perhaps there is a slider, much like the Steemit vote %, that exists in opinions, that I am not aware of.
LOL! It would seem that way.
You see, when you travel to other countries you forget what real freedom is like. My favorite is when people tell my girlfriend what it's like to live in England even though they've never left their own state and she is from the UK. They tell her that she is oppressed. She tries to tell them what it is really like, but their response is that she is fake news.