[00:00:16] Thank you for tuning in to Dreas Point of View. I am your hostess, Drea, and for the next 10 minutes or so, I will be giving you my perspective on a topic that I feel passionate about.
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[00:00:47] So I don't normally do topics that are controversial, but I just wanted to talk about something that's been weighing heavy on my mind the past few weeks. Something that is really inevitable.
[00:01:07] I mean, whether you watch the news or not, if you're scrolling, everyone else is talking about it. And that is the election. Election anxiety is what I think I have.
[00:01:21] Now, and it's not about who you're voting for. I don't really, I'm not going to divulge that, but I will say I did vote. And the past few years I mailed in my ballot.
[00:01:36] I mail it in because I don't want to go to the polls and deal with the drama, and I'm definitely not going to do it on election day. I want to be as far away from the polls as possible.
[00:01:47] I don't like doing anything last minute. To me, that's like waiting until December 24th to do your Christmas shopping.
[00:01:54] You know what's coming. You get a chance to do it early. Go ahead and get it out of the way.
[00:01:57] And with me mailing it in, I get an email or I get a text saying that my bowl, my ballot is in and counted. So there's that.
[00:02:11] But it's more so, I don't recall any other election where, okay, you have the commercials, of course. You have to have that. And you have the debates.
[00:02:22] But then there's also those who, I don't remember any election where there are so many celebrities backing people. So many celebrities are speaking.
[00:02:38] There are so many rallies. There are so many people being very boisterous about who they are voting for.
[00:02:45] I see so many shirts. I see many hats. And that's another topic that one of my best friends and I were talking about.
[00:02:54] Neither one of us cares to talk about who we voted for.
[00:03:00] Being open with it anyway. Because that just, I don't like to get involved in political conversations.
[00:03:09] It just really, to me, I give it to anyone who, I know you got the freedom of speech, but I'll give it to anyone who feels free enough to wear peril with who they're voting for.
[00:03:26] And also those who have signs and posters in front of their house.
[00:03:33] I was driving in two different states in the South and I saw, for each party, signs on their lawn.
[00:03:42] And I'm like, I can't imagine being egged or violated or anything for their political views.
[00:03:50] And everyone's entitled to their view. But I don't know. I think that's something that I would never do.
[00:04:00] But it's like every day I'm hearing something about the election.
[00:04:06] And like I said, in years past, I've never heard it.
[00:04:09] And then I hear this about, it's coming down to race.
[00:04:13] Which it is. Because you are either voting for a white man or a younger black woman.
[00:04:20] And then it's like the previous election, it was what?
[00:04:25] Seeing where the Latinos are going to vote.
[00:04:28] Now it's seeing that men will vote and it's all falling on black men.
[00:04:34] And I know there was a conversation online talking about, okay, making sure that black men vote and how they're not really with us.
[00:04:44] And I'm like, okay, well, shouldn't that be men in general?
[00:04:49] But we're just talking about black men.
[00:04:51] I don't, just by conversations alone.
[00:04:56] I don't see too many of them possibly voting for us.
[00:05:00] I know a lot of men have problems with a woman being in charge.
[00:05:05] Or having some type of seniority over them.
[00:05:08] I know that firsthand.
[00:05:11] So they may be an issue.
[00:05:14] But I'm like, okay, so what about other men?
[00:05:17] I know plenty of men who have problems with a black woman in charge.
[00:05:23] But we're mainly talking about black men, which is interesting.
[00:05:27] I guess the dynamic between us isn't really the best.
[00:05:33] But either way, there's going to be anarchy.
[00:05:37] There's going to be riots in certain places, I'm sure.
[00:05:40] Which is why I made sure to take off that day and the day after.
[00:05:45] I want no parts of anything that's going to happen.
[00:05:50] So I guess we'll have to see, right?
[00:05:52] And I can only imagine what other countries are thinking about us.
[00:05:57] And who we've chosen in the past.
[00:06:01] So we shall see.
[00:06:03] But whatever you do, whether you vote red, blue, green,
[00:06:08] just definitely make sure you vote.
[00:06:11] Because if you don't vote, you don't have a voice.
[00:06:13] I don't want to hear anybody saying,
[00:06:14] oh, I didn't vote because this, that, and the third.
[00:06:17] Just do it.
[00:06:19] And just watching people, watching the post online,
[00:06:22] and even some celebrities.
[00:06:25] Pretty much we know who they're voting for.
[00:06:27] There are a few that chose to be independent, and that's fine.
[00:06:31] But as long as they vote.
[00:06:37] Not sure if I will do an episode of the outcome.
[00:06:42] I might.
[00:06:43] But I definitely just wanted to do it now because it just seems like it's a lot.
[00:06:47] Like daily, people are talking about this whole election.
[00:06:52] And every election is important, but it's really a battle of the races.
[00:06:59] But what was the last one?
[00:07:00] A battle of what?
[00:07:04] I mean, I don't want to say sane and insane.
[00:07:10] The bad.
[00:07:11] But it's, yeah, it's always something every year.
[00:07:14] It's so, every election year.
[00:07:16] So we'll see what happens.
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