The Right to Vote

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   Americans are being bombarded once more with Presidential candidates from the two main political parties.    Sometime early next year they will select a candidate which they will claim can lead the nation to greatness and solve all our ills.   The other side will claim the same for their candidate.

The American people, given two bad choices, will be forced to choose the lesser of two evils.

Given the role of big money in political campaigns, the constant barrage of negative ads attacking this or that candidates race, religion, sex, orientation, issues and airing any and all dirty laundry by twisting words, it's a wonder the country even stands.

Every American of age has the right to vote.    They do not have the right to sit on their hands and mope about how horrible it is that they have no candidate to vote for.    We have surrendered our participation to two parties and you have to be either a (R) or a (D) to have an opinion.    I call BS.    I call for an awakening.     Register to vote.   Educate yourself on who is running and make an informed opinion after reviewing the evidence FOR YOURSELF.   Do not expect your neighbor, the woman down the street, the man across town, to have YOUR best interest at heart.   If you do not vote, you have failed not only yourself, but your family, the man in uniform who died in the Pacific Jungles or the beaches of Normandy.   You have failed both the blue and the grey and you have surrendered the hard fought independence won by the forefathers of this country who believed in a Creator, not one religion's God.

You can sit on your hands and do nothing.   Or you can step up to the responsibilities of a citizen of the United States of America, a Republic founded on Democracy, 1 person, 1 vote.     Women fought for the right to be able to vote.  Minorities had their own battle to gain the right to vote.    Those forerunners of our Great Nation understood what it was to be marginalized by others, yet today, we have americans who marginalize themselves.

It is time to awaken.   It is time to pull ourselves from the media circus, our social networks, or airconditioned/centrally heated homes and step outdoors.   It is past time to stop letting the parties decide our fate with candidates unsuited to the offices they are seeking.    It is past time to end the gravy train of legislative largess and put citizen-legislators back into power, working to make the country whole without regard to lobbyists and corporations.

This is a call to VOTE, not to arms.    This is a call to get involved, not languish on the sidelines.    If you can still feel the stirring in your breast when the national anthem plays, or get a chill seeing the flag waving in the bright sunlight, you know what I speak of.     We have run out of time, the sands are almost gone and unless we do our part, no one will turn the hourglass to restart things unless it is our hand that does so.
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