My Fellow Americans: why you owe it to me to vote on November 4th

I want to vote too, dammit! Can someone suggest a place I could relocate, where they would have a democracy too?

In the meantime, I will be enjoying this excellent (and quite funny) video, the sequel to the original '5 friends' video.
Gosh. I am so pumped up with this democratic flame that I'll go bang on the doors of the US consulate right now. :)

So, Americans: on the 4th of November, get out and vote.

You don't just owe it to yourselves. You owe it to the rest of the world, too. To the people out there whose lives are altered by decisions made in the Oval office. And there are many, many of them.

More importantly, you owe to those of us, who are staring at the electoral process- f**ked up as your electoral process may be! - from the outside, and are angry, because they don't get the same chance you do. We don't get to choose our governments. We don't get to choose our Presidents. We don't get a say regarding laws, regarding our education system, our foreign policy, nothing.
And it's frustrating beyond belief.

Providence has given you the right to vote. For the most powerful office in the world, moreover, and that's one heck of a responsibility. You DO NOT, under any circumstance, get a free pass on that. I don't care if you 'didn't ask for this responsibility'.

On November 4th, you will be in the Chocolate Factory, and we will be the Charlie Bucket-s, looking from the outside, our noses squashed against the glass, in jealousy.

And You owe it to us to vote right.

The tag line of a French newspaper says "Freedom of expression wears out when we don't use it".
I'll paraphrase, and tell you that Democracy wears out, when you don't use it.
So fucking use it already.

I remembered this exchange from Good Will Hunting, where Chuckie (Affleck) is getting mad at Will (Damon) for not using his gift of intelligence to get a good job, to do the right thing.
Applies here, too. (minus, hmm, the death threat. Clearly).

                                     CHUCKIE
                         Look, you're my best friend, so don't
                      take this the wrong way, but in 20
                      years, if you're livin' next door to
                      me, comin' over watchin' the fuckin'
                      Patriots' games and still workin'
                      construction, I'll fuckin' kill you.
                      And that's not a threat, that's a
                      fact. I'll fuckin' kill you.

                                     WILL
                         Chuckie, what are you talkin'...

                                     CHUCKIE
                         Listen, you got somethin' that none
                      of us have.

                                     WILL
                         Why is it always this? I owe it to
                      myself? What if I don't want to?

                                     CHUCKIE
                         Fuck you. You owe it to me. Tomorrow
                      I'm gonna wake up and I'll be fifty
                      and I'll still be doin' this. And
                      that's all right 'cause I'm gonna
                      make a run at it.  But you, you're
                      sittin' on a winning lottery ticket
                      and you're too much of a pussy to
                      cash it in. And that's bullshit 'cause
                      I'd do anything to have what you
                      got! And so would any of these guys.
                      It'd be a fuckin' insult to us if
                      you're still here in twenty years.

(Oh yeah, and did I mention - vote Obama?)


(To return to the first humorous tone of the post - a very funny song on Sarah Palin is here.)