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by Wanda Hodge
Here Comes The Short Bus
In the United States Presidential
election, Americans go to their
designated polling place,
on a designated day, during a designated year and make a decision on "Who"
will be designated as leader to represent the interests of the majority
of the American people. We are told that our vote is very important and
is one of our most basic fundamental rights as a citizen of this great
Nation. It's our voice in the government and this voice is protected by
the US Constitution.
In American politics it doesn't
matter what the majority of the people
agree on, their vote
doesn't really count, or so we are told. We are
reminded that the electoral
college vote is the only thing that really
matters. Not many Americans
graciously accept this concept, It's as though we are being
told that we don't really matter. This electoral
college law was enacted
during a period in American History when women, minorities and the
less fortunate did not matter, slavery was legal and only white men had
any voice in politics.
These land owners were
the only citizens who had any real voice in politics and therefore the
only ones who even mattered. According to these colonial laws only land
owners had any real vested interest to defend their government. What is
supposed to prevent the tyranny of the majority from overruling the power
of the minority, is actually a tool of the elite minority to over rule
the wants and needs of the majority.
What happens when the majority
of the American citizens are denied their voice in the presidential election
and told they don't really matter? Do they graciously accept this decision
or do they stand up and let their voices be heard. How do people
let their voice be heard if their voice doesn't even matter?
How much respect can the majority have toward a person, law or government
which has wrestled the power away from the majority of the
American people and given it to a minority which uses out-dated conflicting
laws and artificial deadlines that only the minority have agreed upon?
Change is a necessary part
of growth and development. We experience many changes along
life's highway, from our infancy all the way through to maturity. It is
important for our own personal development to be able to accept these
necessary changes. When we were little children we thought like a child,
then as we began to mature our thinking began to change. Those who were
unable to mature, remain a child in their mind and emotions, even
though their bodies have fully matured.
These people are considered
retarded and most of the time unable to function in society as a mature
adult. Our government and some of the laws that were written during our
Nations infancy are now retarding our Nation's growth and holding back
our development. Our needs are being ignored while the special interests
of the selfish minority are given precedents. Is this a reflection of the
retarded way our Nation is developing?
One of the greatest signs
of maturity is when we are finally able to put
aside our childish wants
and address our basic needs instead. As we take on more and more responsibility
of taking care of our needs instead of our selfish wants, we finally reach
a point in our life where we can call ourselves mature. As a mature adult
we are able to focus on our own needs as well as the needs of those
who are in our care.
This is one of the main qualities
we look for in a mature adult and hopefully a President to represent our
Nation.
Our founding fathers did
not write these electoral college laws in
stone and neither did God,
they
were written on hemp paper and signed in ink, using a feather quill,
during a time when slavery still existed. Hemp paper and feather
ink quills are a thing of the past, as outdated as the powdered wigs,
the ruffled shirts and slavery. Some of these colonial laws are retarding
our growth. Even though we have developed new tools to write
the law, we are still lagging behind in writing new laws to reflect
our Nations development. The electoral college vote is definitely a retarded
law.
--Wanda |
