The Choice Is Yours

Once again, our political wit Ross Levine checks in, after a long silence. I hear the Morphizm old-schooler has a book in the works. Which is great, as he's already written a hilarious short story about hybrid animalia for us. More on all of that later. For now, here's Ross on the contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the future. Be at peace:

The Choice is Yours
[Ross Levine, Morphizm]
What a radical concept. Instead of putting our energy into deciding which of the candidates is the "right one," we look at ourselves and decide what we ourselves would have to do to earn our votes. Not that we even want to run a nation of 300 million less than ideal human beings, but let's just say we're running the little country we call home. Whatever we find incapable of doing is probably what the nation itself and her leaders are incapable of doing. Which is why, it seems, all our hopes for the oft-invoked concept of “change” come to naught.

But not always. Every now and then -- and these "now and thens" don't come often -- the people elect a leader who actually rises above non-expectation and acts boldly and decisively with the future in mind. It is in situations like this that the real power of democracy asserts itself. When the people, in their blind quest to select a leader, actually do so. When that happens, it's a confluence of so many variables and coincidences and fortuitous outcomes that it's truly a miracle. But don't hold your breath. After eight years of Bush, you may be hoping for a miracle in the ballot box, but chances are you won't get one. So, once inside the voting booth, just do the best you can. And at home, just do a little better than that...

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