On the Virtue of Voting

Our leaders are wicked, and so are we.

I drove by a sign the other day that read “Having trouble voting?” My first thought was, “then please don’t.” If voting is too difficult for you to navigate, you have no business determining the course of the country. Elections have consequences. All ideas are not created equal, and politics is an industry fueled by self-aggrandizement. The idea that supporting any of the National candidates confers some kind moral superiority on the voter is truly absurd, and is a bipartisan flaw.

We find ourselves in an era of obvious political theater, but have forgotten an ancient (once universally acknowledged) truth which we conveniently ignore as we parade our political positions and share voting selfies. That truth is: we are cursed with original sin. That inconvenient, pervasive reality that suggests humans are inherently flawed, and maybe our capacity to be completely wrong holds more historical weight than our posted Palestinian flag or Trump’s “Fight” photograph.

So, vote if you must, but b…