Isabella and Kasha Volunteer

Are you registered to vote this year? If so, have you made sure your address info is correct? These were the common questions Kasha Shakti and I asked yesterday. We volunteered with our favorite presidential campaign (the good one) and went in front of Kroger to convince people to register to vote. Many people were already registered which is great. But what confused me were those who had the audacity to say, “I’m not registered and I don’t want to vote. Not now, not ever.” I mean, I can understand not liking certain candidates, sure. But to say they NEVER want to vote? That’s like complaining when one receives pineapples when they didn’t even take the time to write which fruit they wanted on the shopping list.

The biggest argument against democracy is a five-minute discussion with a voter. To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

We volunteered as long as we could until one of the managers (the mean one) told us to leave immediately. He said it was against his lease to solicit. The thing that confused me about THAT was that technically we weren’t even doing anything illegal. I can understand if we were SELLING something, but we weren’t. We weren’t even representing a specific candidate. We weren’t even set up with a table (we had a table, but we were told last minute not to use it). We were standing there like regular customers (which technically, we WERE customers cause we bought something from the store) holding clipboards in our hands asking people if they were registered to vote. I thought free speech was ok. Guess I was wrong. Why is it little children can sell girl scout cookies in front of a store and it’s ok… but if people want to register for the most important thing in the country, it’s wrong? So… it’s ok to eat Thin Mints… but not ok to vote. Check. Makes no sense, but ok.

For the purposes of continuing a good deed, I urge anyone who hasn’t registered to vote yet, to please do so. This is probably going to be the coolest election in history and we all know who we REALLY want in office. Come on, folks. Hop to it. And if you’re reading this and want to gain my appreciation, then you have every incentive in the world to vote when the time comes.

Right before volunteering, some friends and I ate some Greek food upstairs at a tiny little cafe called The Trojan Horse. The server was super super hot!… I would have loved to ride him. Grrr!

Love
Isabella
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