Please step forward if you would prefer ease and convenience over accuracy, security and legitimate voter confidence. Who needs instant gratification when the price is the accuracy of the official report? Who would not wait hours, days, or even a month to actually get the vote counting right? Who said that it would take that long? Look to New Hampshire where their precincts are larger than elsewhere and their ballots are among the most complicated in the country, yet they finish with their hand counting within a few hours.
The school year has just begun and Labor Day, symbolizing summer’s end, is almost upon us. September and October are filled with Jewish holidays which I will be preparing for and celebrating. Being so busy elsewhere means that, for an extended period, I will not be able to dedicate the time and effort that I might like to this ‘project’. My daughter gently reminds me that it is not in my job description to single-handedly wrest back our nation and restore fair elections. I need that nudge occasionally; it’s easy to forget that for this mission to succeed, we really need a national mobilization. No matter how many sleepless nights or hours at the computer I spend, I simply cannot do this by myself. Even if this were all I did and all I thought about.
All of us old enough to remember the ‘60s and ‘70s – so filled with activism, rallies, demonstrations and protests – view the current national docility with uneasiness and desperation. You don’t have to be a wild-eyed hippie to see that there are many serious issues that confront us. We can sit back and wait for someone else to jump in there to do the heavy lifting or we can do it ourselves, together. No one ever said that defending democracy was an easy task. It demands eternal vigilance. Become part of a groundswell of public opinion that loudly and firmly demands the restoration of our traditional national values that include social, political, and economic justice. Come ride that wave.
HELP WANTED – to take back our democracy. Inquire within!
The school year has just begun and Labor Day, symbolizing summer’s end, is almost upon us. September and October are filled with Jewish holidays which I will be preparing for and celebrating. Being so busy elsewhere means that, for an extended period, I will not be able to dedicate the time and effort that I might like to this ‘project’. My daughter gently reminds me that it is not in my job description to single-handedly wrest back our nation and restore fair elections. I need that nudge occasionally; it’s easy to forget that for this mission to succeed, we really need a national mobilization. No matter how many sleepless nights or hours at the computer I spend, I simply cannot do this by myself. Even if this were all I did and all I thought about.
All of us old enough to remember the ‘60s and ‘70s – so filled with activism, rallies, demonstrations and protests – view the current national docility with uneasiness and desperation. You don’t have to be a wild-eyed hippie to see that there are many serious issues that confront us. We can sit back and wait for someone else to jump in there to do the heavy lifting or we can do it ourselves, together. No one ever said that defending democracy was an easy task. It demands eternal vigilance. Become part of a groundswell of public opinion that loudly and firmly demands the restoration of our traditional national values that include social, political, and economic justice. Come ride that wave.
HELP WANTED – to take back our democracy. Inquire within!
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