The Election

This year, as always, if I like a candidate, I will give that candidate my vote, and numbers of my fellow Americans will do the same. 

The conventions and the campaigns to follow may clear away some misgivings and some doubts. So far, however, both anticipated party choices are exceptionally ill-received by the electorate.

Hence, too many citizens may avoid the polls. Please don’t do that – instead consider:  a “WRITE-IN VOTE.”
Let that be Humphrey Bogart, or Maureen O’Hara, or Kamehameha the Great, King of Hawaii 1810-19, or name your favorite niece.
 
 
This will do little good in 2016. But a notable count of “write-ins” will mean a powerful message – and a painful – to the loser. For they will thus learn they likely would have won, had they offered a person better able to win the people’s trust.
But keeping ourselves at home will never do, because that will mean we do not care. Therein lies exceeding danger.