Thank you to all of you who disagreed with who I voted for on the sixth of November. Mother and Dad did not always agree on who to vote for so they said they would cancel out each other’s vote for some offices. So if you disagreed with me and didn’t vote, my vote mattered.

If you didn’t vote then you have no right to complain about who won and how you think I may have voted. My friends and I have often debated whether someone should vote if they don’t take the time and effort to learn about the issues and people running to represent you.

Finding the truth is not always easy in today’s world. The social media and websites are designed to influence those people who believe the misinformation and total lies. Often we have nothing more to go on than what the candidate actually says. In the Governor’s race, Rauner had a record and Pritzker had only his words for making a decision. I have been told the websites and social media was full of lies on both sides by their proponents.

Two years ago Trump’s words and financial history should have prophesied his words at the 2018 CPAC meeting when he said, “You knew I was a snake when you elected me!” His opponent had been smeared for over three decades with little of it being factual but the lies had stuck in many people’s minds. Russian involvement influenced some of the people I know to vote as Putin wanted.

After researching the issues and deciding who to vote for, and not what party, a person should consider themselves fit to vote. So start doing your research on upcoming local, state, and national elections.