Oddly enough complaining about election outcomes, while not illegal, should probably should have some liability attached for those people who could have voted and didn’t.  There is simply no excuse.  And then there were the people who voted based on the surface information of the campaigns which is by nature unreliable. Voting only based on campaign information is like interviewing a person for a job but not checking references. Gullibility carries its own price as we are learning in spades today.

Had even a small fraction of the nonvoters seriously done their homework and voted we probably would have been spared most  of today’s pain and suffering. Yes, we adults have homework and adults in a democracy even more. The people in power today are very suspicious of voting rights because, collectively, votes are a pool of power that may represent the last vestige of people-power left to us in the United States right now.  

Good is treating the vote and the virtue of voting close to how you might treat a sacrament in your own religious tradition; with great respect and reverence.  Good in voting is going beyond the campaign and treating each candidate like you were hiring a caregiver for your parent or child.  Would you have hired the current two co-presidents, who stripped of their power, pomp, and wealth, would be responsible for the  care of your children or ill, vulnerable, elderly parent?   Given their resume’s, work histories, and well documented behavior, what  were we thinking giving them custody of the entire nation?  Or maybe just as importantly, what weren’t we thinking? Vote for heavens sake and start your homework now. It is called history.