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So, I'm not going to tell you HOW to vote. I'm going to ask that you DO vote. There are many who think that since ilyAIMY has not only a platform but a fully national (and international for that matter) fanbase that that's not the right decision - that I should tell you who I'm voting for and that you should do the same - but that's not what I'm going to do. If you know us, you probably think you know our politics. If you listen to the lyrics, you probably DO know our politics... and a lot of it is written with contempt for people who just think what they're told to think and so I'm not about to start telling you what to think...
But I implore that when someone DOES tell you what to think, how to act or how to VOTE that you listen. Don't just listen to what you're being told. Listen to how it's being said to you - because some people speak to you calmly, some speak to you angrily, and some speak with contempt and some speak with humility. Sometimes it doesn't tell you what that speaker is really thinking, but it can tell you a lot of what they think of YOU. And that's important - because YOU are important.
And because that's my message to the listeners - I hope the speakers are listening too. Because how you speak to someone is important. The ends do NOT justify the means because at the end of the day (or the week if you want to talk about elections, or the month if you want to talk lawsuits, or year if you want to talk pandemics... or further out if you want to REALLY talk about pandemics...) unless you're calling for some sort of genocide or a war (and some are, which is disgusting) beyond just Living with our choices we all have to Live with one another.
Anyone who would have you simply dismiss half of our nation because we don’t all think alike is encouraging you to think short term. Looking at all the wonderful photographs this weekend of people building ways for their kids to enjoy a thoroughly bizarre version of Halloween despite COVID-19 makes me think some of YOU might have children. You don’t get to think short term.
As always, thanks for listening. And thanks for thinking.
I Love you and I Miss You.
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