Tag: vote

In our zero-sum political system, winners take all. It pays to invest in politicians who further our own interests, often at the expense of others. Ironically, our system of governance is among the world’s finest. For a couple of centuries it’s set the gold standard for emerging democracies worldwide. And that’s what’s scary. We can, we must, do better.

Your vote may or may not matter in the final vote tally, but it can always matter to your sense of power, conscience and consequence.

I don't believe that they followed him entirely blindly--i.e., certainly propaganda and lies did their dirty work, but people made conscious choices. I mention this here and now as we are outraged by the latest evil anti-Semitic hate crime in our country at a synagogue in Pittsburgh while the community was celebrating Shabbat, a day of rest, peace, and contemplation.

Voting is the individual’s opportunity to have a voice.

Those who are 'in the know' can't tell those who aren't how to vote.

Every generation has lazy people that won’t go to the polls because they don’t want to leave their house. No, this is the product of a generation that does not feel connected to their parents’ political system.

Spokane County elections are underway. Have you sent in your ballot yet?