TIME TO VOTE

Voting day, November 2008 was my first ever chance to vote as a US citizen. I then felt buoyed up with anticipation and hope. Today, 4 years later, I feel only apprehension bordering on despair. In tune with my own feelings, a couple of pieces by writers who also appear to find themselves near to deep despair:

The S & M Election by Chris Hedges

Against Voting: "As long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves" by Arthur Silber at Once Upon A Time
(4 November 2012)

So.... off to the voting station soon, in my head an old but still relevant song by Leonard Cohen:



Know what I'm going to be wearing ?

.....These rose colored glasses, that I'm looking through
Show only the beauty, 'cos they hide all the truth,
And they let me hold on to the good times, the good lines....