Your vote counts fnord
Finally, the parade of tiny flags, lawn signs and bumper stickers reaches its last stop today. Happy citizens march to the polls in a ritual performed religiously every four years. We all pull out our ID cards, sign our sheets, and go make communion with our federal government. This is the piece we get to have, the notion that no matter what atrocious acts our leaders try to pull, we get the final say when we cast our votes. We can make change. On no other day in this four-year span will we have this much power.
In a country where it costs a person between $50 and $100 million to campaign for president, where many of its past presidents (and 5 of the departing president’s cabinet members) being from the same “[not so]secret society“, absolutely and abhorrently fallible voting systems (although apparently “fair” voting is mathematically impossible), and where a man completely stole the election in 2004, I wonder why more people don’t feel the way I do. Even if there were magical, ballot-wielding faeries that made sure to deliver every single vote to the American government, even if they were all counted, it still wouldn’t matter. Not for the presidential vote anyway.
But there’s nothing to fear, “change” will come about, and though it will be slow, us Americans can have faith that one day soon, we can be comfortable again. Our wondrous electoral college will pick the right leader for us based on the data we provide them. We’ll have the freedom to feel safe again. At least for a little bit.
So after all this thought on voting (I’ve been feeling guilty about my laziness in not sending my ballot) I’ve decided to do something just as powerful. Today I’m going to send out my vote by wishing on my television.
Dear America, please pick John McCain for our next president, for his presidency would reign in the chaos this world needs to ignite real change. Hail Eris!
