Down the street from me is my town library, which also happens to be my voting place– and from the steps of that I saw the results of the a very important hijacking– my photo of what it looked like is at right. And four years earlier when I voted here, there was another important hijacking, this was of a presidential election. And much to my surprise, 45% of the country agrees with me.
So when I go to vote today, I’ll be reminded of both those events.
And you should be too.
If you think the current administration has done a horrible job of tracking down the people responsible for that day, the guy who released a video last week, or are pulled a bait and switch of targets with Iraq that has cost us billions of dollars and thousands of lives, or if you think that Bush should have at least stopped reading to kids when he heard about the plane crashing into the Twin Towers, or if you think that the current administration has done all it can for its corporate contributors and damn little for anybody else, or if you happen to think the President is a liar and a buffoon, or if you’re terrified about the judges that would get appointed and everything else that would happen in a second Bush term, or if you just don’t want to see what happened to Jesus Castillo happen to anybody else, or– God, this list is far too long.
Remember– you can’t complain about the Supreme Court taking away your vote in the last election if you don’t vote in this one.
So go vote!
And to the folks who stole the last election, I leave you with this quote from Alice Miller, by way of Arthur Silber: “The unconscious compulsion to revenge repressed injuries is more powerful than all reason.”
You repressed a plurality of voters last time. And they are very motivated to vote you out this time.