Joe Donnelly and Mike Braun better stop sending me text messages.

I'm just a privileged white guy watching from the sidelines.  It's unfair, I know.  And if you're reading this, I'm willing to bet there has been a time when you've felt like I usually do—guilty and ashamed for never knowing the struggles of our fellow man and forever in debt to those who fight injustice for the rest of us.  That is, if you're anything like me, I hope you care enough to feel awful from time to time about how good you have it in comparison to those who don't.  The truth is, our players on the field will always have more at stake than the rest of us, but we can still take comfort in rooting for the home team from our comfortable stadium seats.  

Given our current situation here in the US, any "go vote" speech delivered on election day inevitably sounds like an endorsement...sorry.  I promise I'm not trying to change your mind, I'd just like for you to speak your mind.  So, go vote.  Being apolitical is convenient when you feel you have no dog in the fight, but being apolitical isn't the same as holding your tongue.  Being apolitical is always the same as voting for the asshole. 

Maybe Jeff can persuade you...he's smarter than I...

A Message from Jeff Tweedy  
11/5/2018
This Election...

"Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of arguments against voting—like, 'it doesn’t matter' or 'both sides are the same'—and I’ve never found any of them to be very persuasive. I’ve always figured that even if they’re right, I’d still rather take some time out of my day and vote than shrug off my duty as a citizen and lose my right to bitch. Right now, however, I feel angry at the selfish and thoughtless nature of those types of excuses. If voting doesn’t matter, then I’d like someone to explain to me why some politicians work so hard to make it so difficult. What are they afraid of? If it doesn’t matter, why would they care? Well, it does matter a lot! What they’re afraid of is how radically our country would change if all the decent and fair-minded citizens who have disenfranchised themselves by convincing themselves it’s pointless to vote stopped giving their rights away willingly. Vote! If you weren’t allowed to, I’m pretty certain you’d want to real bad."