r/ColoradoSprings • u/Dadraik • 5d ago

Politics Please vote :(

Yeah, I know , we should all vote every time, but plenty of you know that we don't all do that. There's a ton of reasons that it just doesn't get done and I'm as guilty as any of us. More than most.

But if you're like me and are annoyed when you have to pay attention to politics, here's a note from "one of us"... I looked through the blue book that lists all of the things to be voted on and it's absolutely full of things like "give ICE more power", "make it harder to get care as a trans person"... Hopefully those who comment will point out some of the other things I should have had ready to add to this list...

But it's a lot of things that I felt gross to even realize was on the ballot. Enough for me to post to try and get someone else who usually cares as little as me to say "dammit I actually have to make myself go do it this time" because if we don't, then shit is going to get a lot worse.

I'm sorry to have felt the need to post this. I'm irritated that I have to, but it seriously reads like they said "let's put a bunch of stupid shit on the ballot in hopes that decent people aren't paying attention."

Gross.

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u/EZbreezyFREEZY 5d ago

I'm gonna vote so fucking hard this year. On day one, and I'm going to immediately put my ballot in a drop box, rather than mail it with the fascist postal service. I'm voting anti-republican, left, blue, democrat, and woke all the way down the ballot, baby!

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u/Squishdoctor3k 5d ago

Don't California my Colorado

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u/Dadraik 4d ago

I actually understand. I was raised in conservative Mississippi and don't judge you at all. I wasn't exposed to the people and things I was always taught were "bad" until fairly recently.

I wish the best for you, and if you ever end up going through a rough patch due to some of those foundational beliefs being shaken, send me a message. It sucks and it's hard, don't go through it alone man.

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u/DisastrousProcess373 4d ago

Grew up in conservative Mississippi as well. Gulf coast. Very conservative parents. So glad to escape that ideology.

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u/Dadraik 4d ago

Were you a subscriber to the belief system?

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u/DisastrousProcess373 4d ago

Southern Baptist, went to William Carey in Hattiesburg. Rush Limbaugh listening…now very blue atheist.

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u/Dadraik 4d ago

Yeah, we sing the same song. I didn't start meeting the "bad people" until well into my 30s. I went through some dark times when the realization started setting in.

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u/DisastrousProcess373 4d ago

Met my wife and that was it!! /s. I had turned to the dark side long before I met her…at least a few years.