Some Last Thoughts Before the Vote

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I'm pretty much decided on who I'm voting for, and who I'm voting against tomorrow.

I'm not going to say who or why here. I may explain some time after the fact, but not tonight. Not for a while, anyway.

I don't know how most of the rest of the country is going to decide the course of our future together as a nation, or whether they'll decide that such a country as we now have shouldn't have a future. It's happened before, elsewhere. It'll happen again. Somewhere.

Someone put a name to at least one of my fears recently, and I only learned of it tonight. You may have heard of Spider Robinson, novelist, dreamer and musician formerly of the American Union, and now a resident of British Columbia and one of many who've chosen to adopt Canada as their Home.

I don't know that I agree with all of the details of his essay, but since he named my fear, I feel it only right to link to the essay and let you judge for yourselves.

Take a look.

Take a look around you now.

Time stands still.

It awaits our choice.

Whatever we choose tomorrow, let it not be the death of kindness to each other.

Please.

Comments

[jackolantern.livejournal.com]

Thanks for linking to that. The reasons he gave for becoming a Canadian are the same that I had for contemplating becoming one, a possibility that I haven't completely given up on yet.