Published November 4, 2024

Voting Can Be a Life and Death Choice

Stop Project 2025 Comics Team

While voting often feels frustrating and dispiriting, it can have an enormous impact.

Why Does Voting Matter? it is said voters either fall in love or fall in line. I'm not sure what's more depressing... the idea that we need to vote based on some weird personality cult or that we should vote like it's a trip to the DMV. Luckily, we don't need to do either. We vote not because we're in love with candidates or because it's some kind of civic-minded root canal but because...

It saves lives. .A study shows that 1.1 million Americans could die in the next decade simply because medicare doesn’t cover all their medications. On a more personal, anecdotal level, my own father was a boy living in an orphanage when Britain passed the national health service in 1948. He visited a doctor for the first time in his life. He was found to have severe malnutrition. They put him on dietary supplements that likely saved his life. He told me it was the first time it ever occurred to him that it mattered to people whether he lived or died. We’re all in this together. And it was all because people voted for it. And there are untold numbers of people just like him, here in america, who will live or die based on how you vote in 2024. Don’t think of it as voting for a party or a candidate. This of yourself as voting for the people you love…and for people who don’t have anything else.

This comic is part of a series created by StopProject2025Comic.org.

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