Get out and vote!

This is a little late, but here is a great opinion piece by Bob Herbert in today’s Times.  (Picture from here.)

Everybody, remember to get out and vote!  As Bob Herbert mentions, this is the most important election since WWII, and it’s undoubtedly the most important election in the lives of most of my readers.  Get out there and vote, and make sure your voices are heard.

Here’s a part of the article that addresses the anti-intellectual problems that I’m always complaining about:

The point here is that as we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the United States is in deep, deep trouble. Yet instead of looking for creative, 21st-century solutions to these enormous problems, too many of our so-called leaders are behaving like clowns, or worse — spouting garbage in the public sphere that hearkens back to the 1940s and ’50s.

Thoughtful, well-educated men and women are denounced as elites, and thus the enemies of ordinary Americans. Attempts to restore a semblance of fiscal sanity to a government that has been looted with an efficiency that would have been envied by the mob, are derided as subversive — the work of socialists, Marxists, Communists.

In 2008!

In North Carolina, Senator Elizabeth Dole, a conservative Republican, is in a tough fight for re-election against a Democratic state senator, Kay Hagan. So Ms. Dole ran a television ad that showed a close-up of Ms. Hagan’s face while the voice of a different woman asserts, “There is no God!”

Americans have to decide if they want a country that tolerates this kind of debased, backward behavior. Or if they want a country that aspires to true greatness — a country that stands for more than the mere rhetoric of equality, freedom, opportunity and justice.

Next time I talk to y’all, we’ll have a new President-elect.  Get out there and vote!

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