“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
- Winston Churchill
Thanks for this post from Guest Blogger Steve Heston, VP at Acxiom Corporation
No matter how dorfed up things are, and no matter whom you blame for how dorfed up things are…democracy is still the best thing going.
Today, people will head out to the polls, hopefully, in record numbers. By exercising their obligation to vote, they’ll make their wishes known. Once it’s all over, some people will get to go represent us, and some people will lose their right to do so. Some of the new people won’t be as good as we pray they will be, and some of the old people will prove to not be as awful as we thought they were. Some of the new people will prove to be as good or better than we hope, and some of the old people will prove to be every bit as bad as(or worse than) we thought they were. It’s sort of a crap shoot, isn’t it?
Still, we get to vote. We get to vote without fear of someone killing us because we voted, and without fear of someone killing us for simply trying to vote. We get to vote. There are other places besides the polls we get to vote. We get to vote at home. We get to vote at church or by deciding where we spend our money. We get to vote at work. We get to vote multiple times each day, and when we do, we inform, influence and, to some degree, dictate what happens next.
Voting is our means of exercising choice. Our choices create our tomorrows. And we do get to choose.
We don’t get to choose everything, just like we don’t get to choose what the people we vote in to office today will actually do tomorrow, but as Winston said, while it ain’t perfect, it’s still pretty good. The same is true of our worst days, compared to the majority of the world. While they ain’t perfect, they’re still pretty good. Our worst days are better than some people’s best days. And a lot of that is because we get to vote.
Since we get to vote, today is more than pretty good, and it’s a pretty good day to make something incredible happen…
Thanks for this post from Guest Blogger Steve Heston, VP at Acxiom Corporation
1 comment:
I agree. Too many of us say oh well, my one little vote won't matter, but it does matter. we should all get out their and vote.
Then those who did not vote either say, oh I should have voted or they complain and things, but had they voted, it might have made the difference.
just my two cents. :-)
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