“Valid objections all, but I’m urging you to please clap on your nasal clothespin and get ready to vote anyway, starting now. Now—before the real craziness begins, while you still have some time to inform yourself to the hilt and use your woefully miniscule power to steer the conversation in advance of the sure-to-be-incredibly-vile campaigns, rather than during them, when it will already be far too late.”
This essay in the Awl discusses the merits of participating in our representative democracy by doing the most important thing you can do, i.e. voting, even with the frustrations, congressmen-scandals and political stagnancy that so often obscure how important voting really is for all of us.
