Today is a day both anticipated and dreaded in my home state of Pennsylvania. It’s election day, including the primaries that have been pinned as pivotal for providing a peek at the next president. All of the news and sort-of-news fit to print have declared that today is the day when the next president will really be decided and everything else will be just a formality.
Personally, I’m sick so sick of the whole thing that right now divine right monarchy is looking pretty good in comparison. American politics really stress me out for reasons I really don’t want to get into here. So why am I bothering to vote today?
To Escort My Mother
My Mom is not in the best of health (she had spinal surgery ten months ago), so she really needs an escort to crowded public places where a lot of standing around goes on. She’s a senior citizen and determined to vote in this election. I admire her commitment, if not her bull-headedness, to vote even when her body is clearly telling her to go back to bed, or at least just sit in the recliner and watch "Ellen".
To Provide A Vital Need In The World
In order to survive, humans need certain vital components. These include:
- Water
- Food
- Shelter
- Fire (or heat)
- Air
- Someone to blame
All Pennsylvanians who vote today, including me, are sure to be looked back on as being the cause all the world’s woes because of who we voted for in today’s presidential primaries. "If it wasn’t for those (stupid hicks/flaming liberals/insert your favorite pigeonhole here) in PA, we wouldn’t have So And So in the White House." "Yeah — it’s all THEIR fault!") We will bear the brunt of all of this blame from all over the world in order to serve mankind.
Where would we be without someone to blame? It makes dealing with the absurdities in politics a heck of a lot less easy to take, let me tell you. Otherwise, there’d be rioting in the streets. Civilization is a system of intricately organized blame -laying. I am proud to do my civic duty in order to keep the system in place.
In finding meaning in my mere one vote, I can then bother to get up off my sit-upon and pull a lever. Besides — I don’t really have the right to complain if I haven’t participated in the process. And where will I be if I don’t have the right to complain? Needing more Prozac, surely.
Hope this helps.
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