AW, C'MON, NOW!
Speak up!
Express yourself
What do you expect to get done just sitting there doing nothing?
Help out! Do your part! Stop goofing off!
It is both amazing and disgusting to see that so many Americans - those qualified to vote -fail to do so. We're talking about well over one half of the eligible voters, not just a piddlin' few part-timers,too. Some get excited about a particular contest, perhaps, but neglect the elections which chose governors for our states, Congressmen and Senators to represent our area. Foreign statistics lovers have a field day pointing out how a few people actually elect the President of the nation which claims to be the world “leading” democracy. It can't be the “largest” because India has a greater population. It can have “quality” if it cannot brag about quantity, as long as sufficient citizens actually believe in what they pretend to admire and want and support its basic principles. The initial step in doing so is to exercise your right to vote in each and every election for which you eligible. That's the only way to bring forth the majority needed to fully express the desires of the people as a whole rather than just as small, sometimes fractional faction
Show that you care.
There will always be some “holdouts” who, for some, personal reason think it is not a good thing for them not to vote because the government the help
elect may become involved in something “evil;” and that makes them equally guilty and subject to eternal damnation. Yes, there may well be persons who refuse to vote for so-called religious. Others fail to do so because they have never learned to make up their minds anything important in their lives and have, chronically, left such decisions to others who run their lives for them.
I realize that most people reading this sort of thing do vote, but in all honesty, I realize that some of you have not registered and do not intend to vote in November. Here in Virginia the last date to do so is October 1st, I believe, but it may vary in different states. You can check that out and get started to taking your part in determining the way of this, our nation, and, perhaps much of the world.
Chronic non-voters, oddly enough, are very often quite forward in the audible and physical expression of “politic concerns.” They can and will harangue and march in protest against anything which they think they can argue is askew. Too often loud-mouths are activated non-voters. Listen carefully in the second week of November this year and see if you can pick 'em out.
A.L.M. September 22, 2004 [c456wds]
