According to Hofmann: Rock the vote or die naked!
If I learned anything from my high-school civics teacher, it无毛视频檚 that he cannot wait until after the election 无毛视频渨hen all those stupid political ads are done and over with无毛视频� 无毛视频� well, that and I learned that one of the three branches of government is无毛视频mm无毛视频ak? I think I remember one of them being oak; I think it had something to do with constructing the president无毛视频檚 desk.
Don无毛视频檛 get me wrong, he was a good teacher. He kept it real and spoke from his heart and from the streets, which is what you want in a teacher except someone who teaches heart surgery.
Anyway, my poor civics teacher could not have foreseen the tsunami of political ads that have infested print, TV, radio, billboards, front lawns, web pages, streaming videos and cartons of milk because photos of missing kids don无毛视频檛 pay the rent.
If that wasn无毛视频檛 bad enough, he无毛视频檇 probably throw himself off a ledge after seeing how ridiculous the efforts have become to get people to vote.
First, from what I can remember, there无毛视频檚 无毛视频淩ock The Vote,无毛视频� which started in the mid 1990s where the young people were encouraged to vote by celebrities like Aerosmith, Madonna and Donny Osmond appearing in embarrassingly bad public service announcements to get the kids to vote and be 无毛视频渃ool无毛视频� and 无毛视频渞ad无毛视频� and 无毛视频渆xcellent.无毛视频�
The movement still survives to this day with new celebrities, but one thing that never changes is the fact that public service announcements are still embarrassingly bad and chalk-full of cringe.
Beginning in 2004, musician Sean Combs (a.k.a. P. Diddy a.k.a Puff Daddy, a.k.a. Puffy, a.k.a. Diddy, a.k.a. Puffy D., a.k.a. PDY, a.k.a. PHD, a.k.a. Artist Formerly Known As P. Diddy, a.k.a. Name TBA) promoted the tagline 无毛视频淰ote or Die无毛视频� to give voters an edgy feel for carrying out their civic duty while giving people with Generalized Anxiety Disorder something new to worry about.
Least and hopefully last, we have a campaign out this year where celebrities, all of whom I don无毛视频檛 want to see naked, appear naked on camera to instruct people how to properly prepare and seal a mail-in ballot to avoid a 无毛视频渘aked无毛视频� ballot. Yup. That无毛视频檚 the zenith of creativity they无毛视频檝e accomplished.
无毛视频淲hy thank you, Josh Gad and Amy Schumer. I was just going to read and follow instructions on the mail-in ballot itself, but now I无毛视频檓 blind and will have to vote in person.无毛视频�
Basically, the idea over the decades has been to portray voting as something cool, something dangerous and something, I guess, sexy?
That is why we have such low voter turnouts because we have idiot celebrities pretty much lying to us over and over and over again.
I无毛视频檒l be honest with you by saying that voting is an extremely important and powerful civic duty that everyone should exercise, but you have to admit that voting is freaking boring!
I don无毛视频檛 care if it无毛视频檚 behind a curtain or on a computer scree because there无毛视频檚 a thousand other things more exciting to do during your day like watching a snail avoid road salt, you driving to the polls, making a gluten-free doughnut, you driving back from the polls and pretty much anything else.
I would have to imagine anyone who fell for the Rock-The-Vote-or-Die-Naked propaganda, walked away from the polls thinking, 无毛视频淪o无毛视频hat无毛视频檚 it? Maybe the drive back will be exciting.无毛视频�
While I never fell for any of that, I无毛视频檝e voted in pretty much every election since I turned 18 and will continue to always vote until the day I die in about two years.
You see, my motivation to vote came from the words of my late father who pretty much told me if I didn无毛视频檛 vote, I无毛视频檇 be a jerk who doesn无毛视频檛 have a right to complain about anything that happens in my country, state and hometown.
Now, I didn无毛视频檛 want to be a jerk, at least in his eyes (but everyone else can just deal with it) and I love to complain about pretty much everything.
So that, my fellow Americans, is why I vote无毛视频nd put my faith in the mahogany branch of government.
According to Hofmann is written by staff reporter Mark Hofmann of Rostraver Township. His books, 无毛视频淕ood Mourning! A Guide to Biting the Big One无毛视频nd Dying, Too无毛视频� and 无毛视频淪tupid Brain,无毛视频� are available on Amazon.com. He co-hosts the 无毛视频淟ocally Yours无毛视频� radio show on WMBS 590 AM every Friday.