“Occupy” a Voting Booth

Open letter to members of the Occupy Wall Street movement:

Over the past two years, you have occupied Wall Street, New York’s Central Park, the streets of Oakland, California, Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown Sacramento, California, and universities across the United States. Your website states that your “people-powered movement” is fighting against “the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations.”

Here’s another way to fight back: Occupy a voting booth.

As you are well aware, Election Day is this Tuesday, November 6. This will be the last day this election season to make your collective voice heard. If you march in the streets or take over a park but don’t vote, then your movement is nothing but hot air. This momentous general election will determine whether we go forward or return to the policies that caused the Great Recession. No adult eligible to vote can afford not to cast a ballot.

I mailed my completed ballot October 11. I’ve made my choice. Now, it’s time for you to make your choice. But if you do nothing, I will regard your movement the way I would freshly made dog poop and walk away.

Just sayin’.

Writing Diva