I've always voted and annoy others with the point that they should, not only because it's important, but because others died so I could have that right. And it wasn't that long ago, in my grandmother's lifetime... History is important.

It ain't perfect, but I certainly am grateful every day of been given the right to live here, as opposed to some place where even having a pair shoes is luxury, and finding clean drinking water is a full-time job! Sometimes I think we just take things for granted, thinking that things will always be as they have been, but that's not necessarily always going to be the case! That part's on us!

That I'm lucky to live here and though life isn't perfect, it is pretty good. I could have been born in Somalia or Syria or Saudi Arabia or in any one of a number of places where merely survival is as good as it gets...

It's like hitting the lotto, literally!

voting is not an individual act but a social act. My one vote may or may not count for much, but the thousands, or millions, of other votes that join it certainly do.

Democracy is not perfect by any means-- we get lousy candidates, stolen elections, and all sorts of other problems with it, but it is still the most enduring form of governing around.

But it won't work at all if we don't use it.

It has been appalling to see people on this democratic forum calling for the disenfranchisement of voters in Southern states. The opinion (vote) of a teenager in Atlanta or a 106 year-old woman from Columbia shouldn't be allowed in the primaries because they are outnumbered by republican voters in the GE??? Some democracy these people believe in.

There is no such thing as not voting. A missing vote has repercussions. It has an impact that registers an outcome. It helps someone win and someone lose. This will be one of the most important elections is US history. The next President will replace two to three, maybe four SCOTUS judges. We can't afford to allow the GOP to make any more gains and stack the court. It will result in the UNDOING of ALL advances made in social justice in this country in the LAST CENTURY. The GOP will dismantle ALL advances made in civil rights, employment, gender discrimination and environmental protections. One election can set this country back for decades to regain the damage the GOP will impose on this country. Getting the country back will be like trying to survive getting stuck in quicksand.

Although she voted for President Obama twice (and Bush Jr. twice), she doesn't like any of the candidates this year. She even said she might write in my name. I'm hoping that if the Republicans do nominate Trump, she changes her mind and votes for the Democrat. And she will vote in the other races. I don't really understand that mindset, but I'm the political one and she never has been.

I always vote and my reasons are very similar to yours.

Outstanding. Some republicans have even been saying lately stuff like 'there's no need for the Supreme Court.' That's seriously messed up. I too love history. I learn more about today from reading history & watching documentaries than I do from watching the endless conflicts of cable tv 'news.'

In this country, as in most, progress occurs when good people vote. When good people don't vote, things regress. And if we can learn anything from history it's that no matter how bad you think things are now, they can get much worse if you don't exercise your right to vote. Use it or lose it!

There is way too much at stake.