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If you are of age and eligible to vote, and you did not vote, I don’t want to hear how you got busy with your blog and forgot to go vote. Your apology only will be accepted if you had a legit reason to not show up. Maybe you were sick? Maybe your car broke down in the Gobi Desert and the rescue team that got you out of there took two days? I don’t know. It’s somewhat indefensible to take the position that one’s vote does not count or does not matter. Unless it does not matter, or is not counted. Is it much different that stating that you are breathing because there is enough air for everyone, while at the same time you are burning tires and wet leaves and adding methane to the air with your feedlot operation? OK, enough of this. If you did not vote, almost nobody appreciates your logic or reasoning, whatever it is. I would never say who you should have voted for. That is your choice and your right as a citizen. But if slightly less than half (47%) of the eligible voters of the great old USA chose not to vote, how can they be either satisfied or dissatisfied with the results? If you did not vote you are saying you are OK with whatever happens.
And yet you are actually not OK with whatever happens. More people complain about our local state and national government operations (saying they are dissatisfied) than vote. And we have to listen to them and read their letters to the editor and watch them march down main street with signs denouncing what they do not like. I have marched, but then I actually voted. Not all letter writers and marchers and whiners failed to vote. But seriously there should be a test you have to pass before you can air your laundry in public. Prove you voted first. OK, tell me I am being unreasonable or ridiculous.
Again, I am not saying I wish you had voted for Brand A or Brand B. Just saying that you should have voted for someone on November 8th. Or just shut up, please. Learn from your mistakes. Try to be more decisive in the future.
If all candidates were unfit, your concern needs to go deeper than voting and you need to be involved at a much earlier stage of candidate selection. Just because your candidate did not prevail, (Sanders? Cruz? Nader? Ross Perot? Dewey? Hamilton?) does not mean the others are unfit (even if they might turn out to be unfit). They just are not your favorite. Warning: metaphor shift…If you don’t get to play quarterback are you going to take your football and go home? And I thought it was a team effort. Join a party and get active. Or create a new party and make it grow. Do something to make this the place we will all enjoy living in, safe and sheltered, healthy and blindly entertained by social media sites.
Do not, however, tell me what religion I should believe in. Do not tell me that I must worship your God and not my God. Do not tell me an oil pipeline has precedence over native people’s source of clean drinking water. Do not tell me the people of Flint deserved what they got. Do not tell me that you are too big to fail. Do not tell me we must frack for oil under every damned city and village in America before we increase alternative fuel usage. Don’t tell me we need to increase our use of torture to fight the bad guys. Fight them fair and square. We have the might and we have the resolve. Do not tell me you are right and someone else is wrong, or that they are wrong because they do not support your views. I told you so is not the best thing to be saying today. By anyone on either side or any side. Anyone can come up with that phrase, but what does that accomplish? I can easily find fault with you, but it does me no good to do that until I find fault with myself and strive to correct that fault. How can I ever expect you to change if I am unwilling to change myself? You can easily find fault with me. When you finish tearing me down, then what is your plan?
No apology, at this hour, will change the election results. Except for North Carolina, they are mostly final. I am not saying they are right or wrong results. Some of us voted (about 53% of eligibles) and we got what we got. Lets figure out how to be honest with our selves and then try to be a positive force in the world. We already have enough negative forces without you enlisting to help destroy, belittle and demean. Are you going to move out of the country? I am not moving to Mars or to Canada. You are stuck with me. As I am stuck with you.
Wanna buy a house? I know a guy…just sayin’
Happy holidays!
