Monday Moments - Democracy and Vote

 Tomorrow is election day.  Darn.  It's a bit scary, in my opinion.  I'm writing and doing this for my dad (see above from January 2023)  (he passed in May 2024) who could not vote this year.   But after January 6th 2021, my father asked my brother to get the forms to change his voter registration.  He could no longer stomach the antics of the Republican Party.  I am proud of his choice as a Navy veteran and a man of honor. 

We'll see what happens.  Alas, because of so much disruption, we probably will not have an outcome tomorrow night.  And that's sad, ridiculous, and (to me) not America. 

The central tenet of every democracy in the end is trust -  Bill Clinton 1993

We, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve - Dwight D. Eisenhower  1953

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to to believe their own publicity -  Arthur M. Schlesinger, R. 1960    (hello......DJT....ugh)

and finally from Walt Whitman  Song of Myself 1895  Leaves of Grass

I speak the password primeval, I give the sign of democracy

By  God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their 

counterpart of on the same terms

Good luck all.  We'll see what  happens and I fear for women in particular.  And frankly, the English language, depending on what occurs.