Ok, I am going to be self-righteous and over-bearing.  So, sit back and listen.  Then you may comment.  I may not read your comments.

What’s all this about people being too busy or disinterested to vote in an election?

Citizenship has privileges and responsibilities.  One responsibility is to vote in each and every election.  It is also our only protection from tyranny (and I know there are different views these days on what constitutes tyranny).

Not every vote will be momentous.  Sometimes we vote for council members and sometimes we vote for presidents.

And, no one is too busy.  And sick people can vote by absentee ballot.  In 1998, my 99 year-old grandfather shuffled with his walker to the voting booth to cast his ballot.  Why?  Because only in America did he have the right to vote and be counted.  Not when he was a child in czarist Russia or a young man during the Russian Revolution. 

If you don’t vote, you have let others make decisions for you and your opinion doesn’t matter anymore.  Because you didn’t do the least you could do to justify having an opinion — vote.