Creeva’s World 2.0

At first you may think this post is because Barack Obama won last night, that doesn’t bother me.  I think he’s made his­tory being the first Hawai­ian pres­i­dent. We could go on that he’s the first african-american pres­i­dent, but that just puts us back into the same stereo­type that made this a bat­tle for him to get to the white house. He had a white par­ent and a black par­ent, truly a mes­sage to those in the future. Your future is not set by your her­itage, but its what you make it yourself.

I knew my can­di­date wasn’t going to win, I wrote in a name of the only man in the last decade that has soundly spo­ken to me in pol­i­tics. That being said I found out yes­ter­day that my vote doesn’t count. Under Ohio state law, if you write in a can­di­date and that can­di­date has not reg­is­tered as a write-in can­di­date, your vote is dropped and not counted. I legally don’t have a say in the pres­i­dent (or any other posi­tion) that has any mat­ter or weight. In the­ory if every­one except one guy in Ohio per­formed a write (would never hap­pen), some­one could win the state with a total of one vote. This is the anti-thesis of a democ­racy. Each per­son is sup­posed to have one vote and one say.

My choices at the elec­tion are lim­ited to can­di­dates that oth­ers have decided would be one of the good choices for me to make. I’m not enti­tled to a true per­sonal opin­ion. Essen­tially because I had to waste time to cast a vote that wasn’t counted I did more harm then good. I’m back to not vot­ing ever again, until a politi­cian speaks to me the same way my can­di­date did.

The peo­ple that say if I don’t vote I can’t com­plain. That is a load of crap. I’ve writ­ten about it before and I am writ­ing about it again. Given the infor­ma­tion I know now, if I was going to vote again I would do the same thing. Do I still have a say in your mind if I con­sci­en­tiously write in a vote that I know will be dropped and not counted? I’ll vote for some­one I can believe in, you can not tell me I can’t have an opin­ion or com­plaint because I don’t have that feel­ing towards one of the other can­di­dates. You can’t tell me I don’t have a voice because I won’t vote on the lesser of what I con­sider evils and bad for America.

The ones that have apa­thy to vote, I can agree with you on. I how­ever will only vote in what I believe in. Those that vote the party line with­out car­ing the actual issue or per­son, they are even worse. For the African –Amer­i­cans that voted for Obama — I hope you enjoy the man and not the color of his skin. If his skin tone is what made you like him so much more you are wrong. For that voted for McCain because of the color of his skin (or more specif­i­cally Obama’s) you are also deeply wrong. The vote should not be about the eth­nic­ity or gen­der of any can­di­date, it should not be whether they are repub­li­can, demo­c­rat, or any other party. It should be a judg­ment of who the per­son is. If you how­ever voted for the per­son that spoke to you, whether you won or lost yes­ter­day you voted cor­rectly. If you voted for the major can­di­dates, you have a voice.

I how­ever, it seems, do not have a voice or a choice. It’s all because I refuse to sub­ju­gate myself to not hav­ing orig­i­nal thought. I knew I was not mak­ing a dif­fer­ence and not caus­ing my can­di­date to win, but I voted with choice and con­vic­tion. I just think it’s wrong that you won’t lis­ten to me, or allow me to have my say when it’s all said and done.