How I Voted, Why I Voted, and Why I'm Disgusted

I am writing this on Saturday Nov. 3. It will be posted shortly after midnight, Nov. 6, Election Day, before the polls open and before I vote.

How I voted:

Straight ticket[1]. I voted for a party, not a person.

Why I voted:

There is a proposal in Michigan regarding an additional bridge to Canada. The fellow that owns the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor opposes it because he makes a lot of money from the bridge he owns and he won't own the new bridge. So he's invented a grass-roots campaign opposing a new bridge. The whole debate is really just about one rich guy that wants you and me to use his bridge.

That's all.

I went to the polls primarily to cast my vote on this one issue: another bridge to Canada is a good idea.[2]

Why I'm disgusted:

A. I finally succumbed to the lesser of two evils; I'm angry I had no real choice and I'm angry I was forced to make one.

B. There was a local politician last election cycle that published the names of folks that didn't vote in the election before that. He apparently felt that it's okay to shame folks into voting, even if they had good reasons for not voting.

I think that's pathetic.

But there is one thing left in this world that nearly everyone grows righteously indignant over, and that's voting.

Saying you didn't vote is like drowning kittens or clubbing baby seals.

So I voted. So no one can ever say I didn't do my civic duty.

I don't expect anything to change.

It's up to the winners to prove me wrong.

I double dog dare ya.

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[1]
Thoughtful Republicans have no candidate in this race. The party of Goldwater, Reagan, and Bill Buckley is long gone, replaced by monied influencers and parrots.

But it is more often the party of personal responsibility and life, and so that's where my vote went.

[2]
I've driven to and from Canada a heckuva lot. Easing border traffic is a good idea, proposal or no. The fact that this became a debate just because someone with a lot of money didn't like the idea should tell us all something. It easily will have cost as much to argue about it as it will to build it after you've tallied the ads, printing ballots, and the time voters have taken away from other things to separate the truth from spin. The Ambassador Bridge owner spent our dollars to protect his own, and we'll never get that back.

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Started: 2012-11-03