The Importance of Voting

Today is Tuesday, the day to vote. We have slim pickings this year, actually we've been in a political drought since Kennedy and Johnson, but it is our civic duty as citizens to take an active part in the political process. Granted, the majority of us are more like step-children of political parties because we do not have the wealth and subsequent political pull that wealth and close relative, power creates; it's a strong vacume that tends to pull up those who graciously contribute. In familial terms; brothers, sisters and first cousins. Tell me that being able to attend a $10,000 a plate dinner for either primary party does not influence decision making and I'll show a chicken with lips.

I only vote for candidates that I have taken the time to know, although what I know is conveniently wrapped in a convenient, one size fits all double-speak political burrito. All we can do is do the best we can. It's better to be part of the solution, then part of the problem. If people don't vote, but they bitch about where the country is headed they are perpetuating the problem.

"Every country has the government it deserves."

[Fr., Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle merite.]
- Joseph Marie De Maistre, Lettres et Opuscules Inedits
vol. I, letter 53)


Voting only matters if you think it matters.