Vote!!

We are living in an unforgettable era; right now, at this very moment.  We will be known for our bigotry, misogyny and discrimination.  We will be known for hateful rallies and even worse yet, the cheering at those rallies.  We will be known for the demonizing of NFL Players that kneel in protest to black and brown lives being taken senselessly in the streets across our nation by the very people that have taken a sworn oath to protect those same people.  Mostly, we will be known for allowing our nation to be split by a man who had taken an oath to govern for all of America and yet he seems to be capable of governing for only a third of the country.

You see, history has this unique ability to recall the best in us as well as the very worst in us.  Look back at history and you will know this to be true.  

But the wonderful thing about all of this is that it is just a period and we the people can change the course of history.

If we don’t like the course that this country is going in, we have the power to change it.  We can vote the people that don’t do their jobs out of office.

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Right now, the Republican Party has become the party of Trump.  The party used to be guided by conservative principles; conservative with fiscal spending…conservative socially.  And then something happened with the election of Donald J. Trump.  People started to believe the rhetoric that came from the Whitehouse.  They started to believe the lies that came from this president daily.  And at the rallies, people were being whipped up into a frenzy with the belief that “other” people were responsible for their woes and that Trump and only Trump could put the salve on their wounds.

We are standing on the precipice of our democracy falling victim to becoming an authoritarian regime; which is not what the founding fathers wanted for the people of this great nation. We as a people have a choice.

In less than three weeks, we as a people can start taking control of our government.  We can remind our elected officials that their job is to serve the American People and not the president of the United States.

Now is your time to exercise your right and vote.

~ J.L. Whitehead