I didn't write about the 2020 election...
I was busy or something. I'm sorry Election. Sometimes we got other things going on in our lives and I just simply don't have the time to think about democracy and elections and stuff. Even though I didn't write about the 2020 election... you were always on my mind.
You know, I've been thinking, Election...
"I've thought about us for a long long time
Maybe I think too much, but something's wrong
There's something here that doesn't last too long
Maybe I shouldn't think of you as mine
Seeing you....
....Or seeing anything as much as I do you...
I take for granted that you're always there
I take for granted that you just don't care
Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through
It's important to me
That you know you are free
'Cause I never want to make you change for me"
-Todd Rundgren
He's right, Election. Todd Rundgren is right.... you're not MY election...you're EVERYONE'S election. That's what democracy is. You belong to every one... from sea to shining sea. My opinion is just another grain of sand in a desert of minds. A single grain of sand in a desert of millions of minds. Millions and millions of voices... all of which matter.
It's not like this everywhere either. We take it for granted that we are allowed to have opinions.
There's parts of the world where they don't even know what this word even means! Democracy. There's parts of our earth where some greasy stuck-up cleric or some cheeseball wannabe dictator just tells you what to believe in... and you believe it. The millions of voices and thoughts that swirl around at all times mean absolutely nothing to no one in places like that. The millions of voiceless voices just dissipate into nothing... for their opinions don't matter.
But in democratic nations... even the dumbest and silliest voices still MATTER.... and that's the way it should be.
Todd Rundgren is right, election, in his song he wrote about loving something... we do take for granted that you've always been there... you probably always will be there... sometimes we even forget what we went through to even have free and fair elections.
Some guys in the 1770s got sick of getting taxed by Europe... and threw a bunch of tea into the damned ocean! Europe was all like "You guys can't buy your own TEA! You gotta buy OUR TEA at extremely higher prices with unbelievably high taxes on every last bag!" but it didn't fly, daddy, it didn't fly... Those guys down in America said... "We'll show you where you can sell your tea! BUBBA! HERE'S YOUR TEA! BUBBA!" ... and they threw it into the ocean... and it all sank... it sank right to the bottom of the ocean... where it belonged.
Wow.
Europe was PISSED OFF and a war broke out! America summoned up all its Courage and its burning inner strength and WON!
When it was all over... someone woke up and knew it was time... he knew it was time to lead a new country into greatness... this man's name was George Washington and he became something that fateful day... he became the very first President of the United States of full fledged America... that day.
The spirit of the people was strong. That spirit never died. It still lives inside of the minds and souls of every man n' woman in this place. That spirit? It became America... it became the human embodiment of America... and it will always be that way... whether you like it or not.
"You can't kill me
I will not die
Not now not ever
No never
I'm gonna live a long, long time
My soul raves on forever"
-Mojo Nixon
YOU CAN FILL MY BODY FULLA HOLES... BUT... YOU CAN'T KILL THE SPIRIT OF ROCK N' ROLL!!!!!!
Election, I know you've changed since the days of 1770s... we all have. In fact, it would be crazy if you didn't change at all since the 1770s... because that's what democracy is... it's letting the voices be heard and letting changes be made... hearing the voices of the smallest and most insignificant of peoples... and making the world a place where many many people are happy and good instead of miserable and bad.
Election... we've been through how many Presidents now? Forty six? Wow.
This crazy experiment called The American Dream has lasted two hundred and thirty five years now, baby, and it 'aint going anywhere!
All you guys down in China n' Russia n' North Korea n' stuff... wondering all day long how you can control the minds of the masses and keep them down... you got it all backwards! You guys got it backwards! You're supposed to want to bring your peoples UP! You should be thinking about how to make even the poorest people happy. You should be trying to figure out how to make the most marginilzedest of marginalized people happy n' good instead of suffering n' bad.
It's not about harming the poor tired masses who are yearning to breathe free... it's not about taxing their heads off... it's about accepting them and making them as good as can be.
I think I shall follow this year's Election!
Now, I'm not really a pundit. This term, by the way, is derived from an Indian word meaning "a learned man"... I've never even been inside of a politics school let alone being considered the most beatifulest person or most learned of men in a political school.
But does that even matter?
I knew a guy once who was considered the most beautiful of men in his private politics school and was considered to be a very very learned man... and everyone thought he was going to age into an elder statesman of the finest degree... but he instead... grew up to be a drug addict who died in a house fire.
That point was neither here nor there... but it just goes to show you that... you don't have to be pretty to ride this train called Democracy. You don't have to be rich to ride it. You don't even need to be smart to ride it... this train called Democracy is for everyone!
For, I think Huey Lewis and his News said it the best,
That's the power of love.
-Huey Lewis (and the News)
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