A Blast from My Past

I save everything or almost everything. You never know when it will come in handy. And even when it does, I usually still don't know. I found this rummaging around in the archives and lo and behold, we're in an election season so here you go. Back then I called it:

Vote for Me and I'll Fix Everything

Election season is like Trick or Treat for adults, except we registered voters seem to end up with a lot of Mary Janes and saltwater taffy and way too few Dove Bars and Reese's Cups. 

Six days from now, we'll be knee-deep in big muddy hitting levers, and blackening circles as the will of some of the people is transformed into the will of all the people. The miracle of democracy, coming to a ballot box near you. Unless you've opted for early or absentee voting (I did the latter).

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard ." Sing it, H. L.. I'll hold the hymnal while you turn the page. 

Living in one of the thirteen original colonies (I still think we should get silk jackets, have colonial colors, and maybe a secret handshake; just to shut up those ba$tards from the West Coast with their nice weather and fresh fruit all year round), I'm watching the wheels as I'll have the opportunity to vote for a President, a Senator, a Congressman, a state representative, and a state Senator. 

You probably have about the same range and scope of choices where you live, but only if you choose to vote. The same folks who'll sit on hold for twenty minutes for a radio call-in show can't take ten minutes to go vote on Election Day. 

Maybe we have neighbors who think you have to pay a fee to cast a ballot or lack a calendar that tells them when Election Day is. The same people who call Dancing With the Stars hundreds of times to get their favorite to the next round don't think it's appropriate to have an opinion on the direction the state or nation should take.

If you don't choose, you lose. And don't tell me you don't have enough information. In this country at this time in our history, if there's one thing we have TOO much of, it's information. The trick is to turn it into knowledge you can use to make an informed decision. Because that's what we're lacking...
-bill kenny