Voting isn't about a party, it's about an ideology. Not a whole lot gets gone in DC because people are essentially pricks with their heads stuck in buckets of shit.

But here is the key to voting, it is what happens locally, when we come together for the better of the community. The books we buy for the kids, they new paint we put on the walls of the school, the safety and knowledge we give to those who will some day take over this nation.

Stopping morons from banning books in libraries; opening the minds of those who's world of wonder is just beginning. It is for the future of the children.

I have stood and looked in the eyes of evil during Library Meetings. I have taken them down by logic and truth. If they don't want they're kid to read "Splendor in the Grass", so be it, but DO NOT deny others the right to read it, or any other book.

Every time we vote to increase a penny or two to enhance fire safety, we are working as a community. Every time we demand up to date books for our children, we are educating our children to bring about a better community. Not long ago, and entire School Board was evicted because they "demanded" intelligent design in the curriculum. An entire city came together to oust fools...now THAT is community.

OK, D/R, we are the owners of this nation. We have sold ourselves out, and cheaply, for the blood of those who fought in the Revolution and the Civil War did not die in vain...they gave us this legacy which we have squandered. I ask your pardon here, as my eyes tear up at the thought of what dreamers have done for this nation, and we have sold it for the 30 pieces of silver.

Molly Pitcher, kept her husband's gun firing; not because she wanted to, but because she HAD to. Clara Barton did bind the wounds of the wounded and dying, because she "wanted" to....she HAD to.

Men stood in lines firing at each other because they HAD to.

So I ask, and with complete humility, is it for us to deny ourselves they vote these men and women have earned for us? We need not vote on the "greater" things, but on the things that create our communities, and we must always be on guard against the barbarians at the gates.

Thank you Nance for this chance to try to explain why we vote...