Buckingham Fountain

As a civics geek, I love elections, I love voting, and lately I have been thinking loads about the next election. I have this wacky idea. I would love it if everyone who could register to vote, did, in mass. Come election day, after all the usual mud-slinging, the debates, the tours, and we are still stuck choosing between the lesser of two evils, we boycott the election! We refuse to vote for anyone until the system changes, until we can truley create a democracy, one we want to stand up for. I am tired of being made a schmuck out of by the corruption in our leadership. I am tired of the apathy, and I have a hankering for a good old fashioned American Revolution! I realize the wackiness of my fantasy, polictical apathy is a harder habit to kick than high-fructose corn syrup addiction. But can't you just imagine it, just for a minute, if we stood up for ourselves? We wouldn't be in the pickle we are in now if we had learned to do it 5 years ago, if we had the balls to say we demand a recount, we demand that our democracy be fair, and that it not come with a for sale sign. How I long to not be an American right now, not the way the rest of the world sees us, it's humiliating, and we have a say, instead of standing up for ourselves we resort to reinforcing the typical stupid, fat, lazy stereotype pinned on us, and quite righteously I think. So I am left to wonder, how do you fire up a nation, how do you share information with a country full of people with their fingers in their ears singing na na na na na, I can't hear you? I am going to find out how, and maybe someday, after we clean up our messes, improve our infastructure, health care, education, economy, humanity, and become a progressive tolerant nation it will be quite a nice place to live.