Why We Vote!
NEW! Check out our "why" we vote
The PEG Newsletter and Outreach team wants to share some of our reasons that we vote. Our first featured reason is by Janet Cannon, a friend of PEG. If you would like to participate, please send your reason to peginfo20@gmail.com.
A Response To Those Who Feel Their Vote Doesn't Matter
by Janet Cannon
I was a disillusioned non-voter for quite a long time. I felt there was no point participating when time after time the system favored candidates I deeply disagreed with…. As time went by, I became more aware of history and of the forces acting to keep humanity in thrall to entrenched interests, both financial and political. I saw what a strong push there is to deny citizen status to large classes of people, making them vulnerable to exploitation, afraid to stand up to demand decent wages and conditions. I was shocked to see how, under the barrage of right wing “economists” promoting such theories as “trickle-down” and “choice economics”, even middle-class workers found themselves without basic rights such as sick leave or pensions, and I began to read. Read More at: (https://www.dailykos.com/…/-A-Response-to-Those-Who-Feel-Th…)
