If you're a US citizen over 18 years of age, please remember to vote today, if you haven't already. Click here if you need help with registration, or to find your polling place. Whatever your political leanings, please take the time to express them at the ballot box--call me naive if you must, but I strongly believe that the foundation of a participatory democracy is, well, participation. So go participate!
Then sigh in relief, knowing it will be at least a few months before the 2014 midterm coverage kicks into high gear. But today, do your part and vote!
I wonder how many people here are actually Americans. People keep talking about all this election stuff, and it always goes right over my head. I don't even know who the main candidates are. D:
ReplyDeleteWell, one of the candidates is the current President of the U.S.A, so if you don't know his name then it's fair to say that you're just plain out of touch with politics in general.
DeleteJust under two-thirds of the blog's hits are from Americans, according to Google. Of course, that's just pageviews, not an actual reader numbers.
Deletewtf is a president?
DeleteWhat I learned in school was that United-Statesian people have red and blue vans that drive around in the streets during the late fall of every leap year, funded by drug cartels and the monetization of orphan blood. The vans pick up homeless men from each major city, then have them fight caged death matches where the survivor is crowned Battle King of the Americas.
I have it on good authority that you also decapitate this Battle King and taxidermy his corpse so he can be used as a figurehead. Your actual ruling party made up of sapient grey animals, who can never stop bickering at each other—at least until the next leap year (where they get a momentary reprieve by watching your deadly hobo fights). This is all because, as everyone knows, ungulates and probuscideans get bored of having the same taxidermy corpse hanging around all the time and like seeing new faces.
Honestly, I find the whole practice rather barbaric, but in the interests of cultural relativism I guess I don't have much of a right to condone or condemn it.
(But yeah. I'm not much of a politics person.)
I want you to be president so this world becomes reality.
DeleteI am going to have to educate you now. :/
DeleteSilly Mystic. You, like lot of people, have this antiquated notion that being smart involves an "education".
DeleteYou see, like all the other smart people in the world, I obtain all my knowledge through the modern and civilized method of eating smart people so that I can get their smartness. That is why I am a genius who can count all the way up to eleven, type with both my index fingers and spell difficult words like "gourmet". (My grandmother had to ambush three Russian priests before she mastered that particular word—it has one of those insidious silent "t"s in it and everything!)
Last week I just learned how to not soil myself every time I sneeze, and I highly doubt that you have any accomplishments as refined as that.
It's a bit too late to register, but if you are registered and haven't voted yet, you should.
ReplyDeleteThe District of Columbia, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Wyoming all provide for same-day voter registration.
DeleteIf you live in any of these places, it is not too late to register to vote. In any case, if you can choose one form of exercise today, exercise the franchise.
Good post, Chris. By the way, and just for the record, I immediately laughed out loud at "lacuna matata." ;)
Ah, it's good that SOMEone likes my punnery. Warms the heart, it does.
DeleteAccording to the sticker on my shirt, I Ohio Voting. :B
ReplyDeleteI voted. But then again, when you live in a state that has almost always voted Democrat, I suppose it hardly matters.
ReplyDeleteYes, my vote for president is going to be irrelevant, too. Luckily for my ego, there were some state-level races about which I both had opinions and where the race could go either way. Go me!
DeleteIt's 4 in the afternoon, I have about ten tabs open on my iPad, all of them election results, and I am at a bar alternating between drinking in joy and paranoia.
ReplyDeleteUghhh...
Ugh, I hate seeing "democracy" everywhere. It's a dirty word. What happened to us being a republic? Oh, right, the 17th Amendment
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