In yesterday’s post, I shared some political buttons to note this is the week of the Democratic National Convention. Here are stickers I spotted in my sticker folder recently.
Sticking with RomCom Summer, last night, thanks to Debby’s Kindle streaming a movie for me, 2023’s Red, White & Royal Blue, on Prime, I got to hear Uma Thurman don a lovely accent as a U.S. president from Texas, and see a funny, sweet romance develop between the president’s son and a member of the British royal family.
The political buttons or stickers I’ve shared might not indicate this, but the late Eighties threw me into advocacy for the dignity, fair treatment, and push for equal rights for those with HIV/AIDS and for members of the LGBTQ+ community. I will never waver when it comes to justice and fairness. To those people in my life who’ve looked sideways at me for these things, I advocate for your sister. Your nephew. Your child. Your brother. Your cousin. Your mother. Your grandpa. Your grandchild. Your friend. Your neighbor.
And, THIS is why I can’t NOT VOTE!! 🙂
Amen!
I don’t understand people who don’t vote.
Nor do I. Though that is one of the things I attribute to cynicism: “They’re all the same crooks.” “It doesn’t matter how I vote, it’s only one vote.” “The country’s run by rich people and voting doesn’t matter.” Etc, etc. I did research once on women who fought for the vote. I followed the push in the Civil Rights movement to include votings rights. My parents valued voting and believed it mattered. And my friends with AIDS voted no matter what, because they knew it mattered. All of them–the disenfranchised, my family, my friends–are with me when I cast my single vote.