Call me hopelessly naieve if you like, but to me, it
seems that this Presidential election might yet turn
out to be one of the best things that's happened in
the history of the American democracy. This is the
kind of stuff your Civics teacher sonorously lectured
you about ... in what seemed back then a tedious, and
overly-belabored point:
Your vote counts.
Well goodbye boring lectures, hello real world.
Challenges, recounts and spinning aside, when all
this is said and done, the American voting public is
going to have a vastly improved education about just
how it is this election process of ours really works.
Now 'fess up, I'll bet most of us had a general idea
of how complex this system is, but until we saw it put
to it's greatest test in history, whether or not it
would work when it needed to was pretty much camping
out in the theoretical. Not any more ...
I also can't help but think that a great deal of
recent voter apathy stems in large part from "taking
it for granted" that political elections are, for the
most part, foregone conclusions -- a bit of window
dressing for a decision already taken. After this
one, I'd be surprised if anybody could look you square
in the face and make that kind of a suggestion.
Don Rowe
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