Would You Risk Your Life to Vote? It Looks Like 7 Million Afghans Did.
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What would you be willing to risk in order to vote? Would you cast a ballot if it meant your finger might be cut off? Would you head to the polls if there were a credible threat that terrorists were going to blow up your polling station? Would you even leave your house on Election Day if terrorists threatened to kill people who voted?
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So now, keeping all that in mind, how many Afghans do you think risked life and limb to cast their ballot? Keep in mind that in our 2012 presidential election, we had a 58 percent voter turnout.
Early estimates are that 7 million courageous Afghans voted, a number that represents a 58 percent voter turnout. That’s considerably higher than the 4.5 million Afghans who voted in their last election, in 2009.
The high voter turnout in Afghanistan tells me two things. First, despite what many on the right will tell you, there are people in the Muslim world who embrace democracy. While Muslims are in no way monolithic, clearly the 7 million Afghans who risked their lives to vote are a shining example of people who very much want democracy. As a side note, anyone who tells you all Muslims think a certain way on any issue understands nothing about Muslims. When you see those people on Fox “News,” change the channel because they are making you dumber.
My second takeaway is that our voter turnout is pathetic. The Afghans voted despite the Taliban’s threats of murder. What’s the biggest thing we risk to vote? Maybe missing an episode of The Big Bang Theory or Keeping Up with the Kardashians?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/07/would-you-risk-your-life-to-vote-it-looks-like-7-million-afghans-did.html
What will you risk coming out to vote here in 2014? With the GOP working to destroy our economy and taking away our liberties! The Kochs threatening to buy our government and destroy our environment and buy our servitude?
Are we going to sit back and wait for the only "true progressive" running? Well yes if you want to lose our chance to win. Vote Democrat. Vote Democrat as if your life depends upon it, because it does.
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