America’s “cup of woes” is overflowing. Every news cycle adds to the long list of unresolved problems and issues: gun violence, drugs, immigration, abortion, insurrection, race, “wokeism,” book banning, sexual orientation, budget defaults, voting rights – on and on it goes. Each issue seemingly unresolvable and unresolved by those whom we elect and pay to “do the job” of good governance.
What can we, as citizens alone, do about this intolerable fix? Who alone has the power to change the self-destructive course that we are in? Who else? The individual voter.
In spite of the efforts of both political parties to “fix” the system in their favor, the fact that we still have the right (and obligation) in our democratic system to vote for every office holder – local, state and national – is our power to effect the changes that we want, to hold those who represent us accountable for their actions (or inaction). Sitting it out, saying they are all corrupt, and looking for the “perfect” candidate is a cop-out that brought us where we are today.
Pick your top issues, investigate your representatives’ or candidates’ records. Vote to fire the ones who don’t meet your standards and hire those who do. Be selfish, be tough and be vocal. Oh, yes! And vote. This may be our last chance.
Ken MacLean
Scarborough
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