I awoke on election day at about the same time that Boobus and his fellow robots were beginning their lockstep march to voting facilities in eastern states. I wondered how many were humming the statist mantra "it-doesn't-matter-who-you-vote-for-just-vote" as they strutted to their reward of an "I voted" sticker to wear on their shirts or jackets. Does this foolish slogan continue to have any life within it?

My question was soon answered when I read an online editorial from a newspaper for whom I began delivering papers when I was nine years old. Titled "Vote, then help the nation heal," the editorial recounted how the newspaper had endorsed various candidates and referendum issues. It then added: "more important than voting our way is voting, period." Any intelligent mind should respond to such a statement with the most powerful word in the English language: "why?" The editorial hinted an answer: "So vote. And after you vote, however, you vote, help our nation heal and prosper. . . . We can get better."