Vote or Die

Last presidential election might be remembered by some as the Vote or Die election. P. Diddy's well covered mantra was trying to get the younger population more involved in the vote. At first I thought it was a corny little saying to get people to vote, and would not work very well. However I have read that in that election youth voting had gone way up. I don't know how much of that can be attributed to P. Diddy, but I'm sure he had an effect on how many people voted. The more I think about it, we need people like that to urge us to vote. However cheesy the slogan might be, if it works I'm all for it. THis is one of the more useful uses of citizen media. If you can use your social status, a.k.a. being really rich and able to get on television, to get more people to vote you are doing a good deed for America. I generally tend to look down upon many of the so-called flag waving patriots who only wave a flag. But it is truly patriotic if you try to get more people involved in deciding this country's fate. That is what I think of as real patriotism.


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