The BBC has been covering the election and the amount of preparation both sides are already making for any challenges to the outcome extensively. This is an important election and everyone needs to get involved. Quit reading this and go vote.
You know, the phrase I just used gives me pause for thought. "This is an important election." What does that mean? They're all important! It is the apathy on the part of the voter that allows wankers like we have running the administration into office.
The great experiment is going awry. What has happened to us as a people? We're abdicating the power that so many paid so dearly for! Abraham Lincoln must be rolling in his grave. Is this what we fought the revolutionary war, the civil war, and all those other wars for? So that 10% of the population can rule by apathetic assent?
We've replaced the monarchy by the plutocracy of the extremists. The extremists are the only ones who seem to garner enough interest in the process to accomplish anything. Let me just say: If you cannot be bothered to express your opinion at the polls then you deserve whatever happens to you! When your civil rights are taken away by the people who want to impose on you their belief structure, remember: you chose to remain mute. You allowed this to happen!
Abraham Lincoln, in the Gettysburg Address, commemorating the national soldier's cemetery expressed home that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall never perish. Unfortunately, the American public repeatedly proves that this concept is no longer important in their lives. They allow extremists from both sides to obfuscate and bloviate at them and claim to be giving them the truth and then they, secure that someone else will do their duty, sit there and watch their rights being usurped.
Please! Get off your keister and do something! Make it possible to keep alive the government that was bought at such a dear cost. Say those two most important of words today: "I voted." It's not even important who you vote for! Just get out and vote. Expressing your opinion any other day is fine and good, TODAY it makes a difference! I'm abroad and I voted today! My absentee ballot was posted from the UK back to Lakewood a couple weeks ago.
I hope that wherever you are today, you'll take a moment to honor those who have gone before and vote!
Don Bergquist - 07 November 2006 - Thames Ditton, Surrey, UK
The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Abraham Lincoln
19 November 1863
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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