Only 14 More Days

OH, so many of us have become hardened and crusty old skeptics. I do not have enough digits to count the number of times I have heard, "It doesn't matter who is elected President, nothing will actually change anyway."

Some of us aren't so much skeptical as "wizened". We say such things as, "Presidents of united states don't really do much of anything anyway...It is just a figurehead."

Several of these folks go on to explain why my bumper sticker, "If you don't vote you don't count", is offensive to them.

Whatever your beliefs, you HAVE to admit that aside from all the media's rabid lathering something WILL change in our country. Indeed. Our country will finally join the ranks of those "underdeveloped" "third world" countries who have enjoyed (or endured) the leadership of women and minorities for decades and even centuries. We will finally be stepping out of the dark ages!

America the Great is finally filling in her training bra. She's finally, perhaps, coming out of the exasperating pre-teen years. She might stop talking back, stomping to her room and slamming the door, assuming she knows everything when she clearly doesn't, and she might just stop being a tyrant and self-appointed social dictatoress in the school halls.

Despite the fact that a few hundred years ago the world changed dramatically under the British rule of Elizabeth I, and her success as a politician, general, and leader are evidenced, Americans have been uneasy, skeptical, and reluctant (to say the least) about placing a woman at the helm of our country. I sometimes like to put my arm over the shoulder of my young country and have a talk about not having sex until she really understands the consequences and ramifications. "Honey, you're just too young to be doing things you don't even understand." Only I think she's been sexually active for some time.

It is amazing to me that we Americans (and I mean ME and almost all the rest of us) have believed strongly that we are a mentor and leader among the nations of the world. We are in a way. Many nations look to us. But tyrant does not equal leader. Really now. Don't you remember hating the big bully in school? Yet the minute he protected you and YOUR interests you felt a kind of uneasy pleasure in it. Let's gain a little perspective on what our role is anyway.

Change will occur! We will finally have either a black/minority President or a woman V.P.

We still have 14 more days until either becomes a reality. Just enough time to learn how to make tools and build fire.

Whether you are a hardened skeptic, an Anarchist, or simply "wizened", if you do vote your voice will be out there. Your positions/people you stand up for on your ballot this election will be counted among the others. Even if you "lose". Your voice will become part of a loud collective...much like a choir. I can sing, but believe me when I say my voice is much more lovely when combined with many other choral voices.

As one hardened skeptic to another, VOTE! You never know what will happen, and how could it hurt.