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Don’t be thinking that you can ride this one out!

Don’t go saying it doesn’t matter,

that you’re only one vote anyway

that the system is rigged

that all the candidates are just crooks

or just plain crazy!

Don’t allow yourself the comfort

of saying that, because you’re in California,

the vote will be decided before your polls close.

That’s what they want you to think.

The same “they” who are introducing

voter suppression laws in some states

and bogus “id to vote” regulations in others.

The folks who depend on your not exercising your right to vote

so that they can continue to press their same old, tired agenda

of repressive and regressive policies

that benefit the more fortunate at the expense of all the rest of us,

the same agenda

that has kept this country

from taking care of it’s sick and downtrodden masses

like it claims it does in its fairy tales

that it feeds to the young, the naive and the misinformed.

This election

may  well be called, for the importance it holds at this time and place

in the history of our republic

the mother of all elections.

The future of our democracy, such as it is,

depends on the disenfranchisement

of the vested interests in Congress–

the elected officials who, having succumbed to the temptations of power and influence,

labor to benefit their own interests

to the exclusion of the interests of their constituents,

whose welfare they have entrusted

to these shameless

(and for the likes of Mitch McConnell, shameless doesn’t begin to describe it)

hooligans, assholes and short-sighted imbeciles

who trade away their trust  with impunity

while lining their nests with their ill-gotten gains.

We find rodents contemptable for fouling their nests

yet these people favor policies that, for the sake of profit,

are fouling our planet in much the same manner.

Since these people have eschewed compromise

defeat is the only way to deal with them.

And the only way to do that

is to vote!

11 April 2016

Tim Konrad