On this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, one word kept ringing in my ears…
“Disenfranchisement” [Definition] – the revocation of the right of suffrage (the right to vote) to a person or group of people, or rendering a person’s vote less effective, or ineffective.
This accurately describes the reality of EVERY United States citizen today who is NOT an elected official. In every sense of the words, our vote is “less effective or ineffective.” When’s the last time you were approached (by your US Senator or State Representative) for your no BS opinion on a real issue? On any issue? On the issue of the bailouts… NO ONE I talk to and I mean NO ONE thinks this is right. Even the media is in agreement with this and it’s hard to find an issue where I agree with media or vice versa.
So, if the masses are truly against the bailouts and the MASSIVE spending approach to dealing with a recession, how is that our elected officials are voting FOR these bailouts? That, my friends, is “disenfranchisement.”
The regular guy’s vote doesn’t count. Let’s face it. No one’s asking mine or your opinion… our elected officials have come to believe that THEIR vote is OUR vote; and somehow, we’ll all just go along with it because we’re not smart enough to understand the issues and the “details.”
Disenfranchisement, in any of its forms, is unconstitutional. Your vote and my vote needs to be effective. In order for it to be effective, it must be asked for and it must bear weight.
Think on these things… I don’t have any magic solution in the moment but I do think we all need to figure out how our voice can be heard and our vote, especially on these major issues affecting not only us but our children and grandchildren, MUST be counted. No one called me to vote on these bailouts of corporate America and I was given no forum to place my vote. Were you?
To read the United States Constitution, CLICK HERE.
