Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Ballad of The American Voter




The American Voter is involved in a huge pyramid scheme called the primary system where each person who stays home is rewarded with the candidates they deserve.

The American Voter is belligerent with indifference, daring anyone to knock the apathy off its' shoulder and make it care about the past, present, and future of its' nation.

The American Voter pays close attention to the issues that matter most to them. How the images they watch on their television each night convince them to pay for cut rate discounts on their American Dream.

The American Voter willingly lines up in front of the firing range of promises forgotten, character assassinated, and hope manipulated.

The American Voter lays down on the railroad tracks of media lies and spin doctor prescription sound bites, waiting for the locomotive of special interest money to roll over them and democracy.

The American Voter hides behind a chair, afraid its' government will once again come home drunk with power from intimidating the innocents abroad.

The American Voter is proud to live in the land of the free for a price and the home of the false bravado.

The American Voter looks down a winding, coastal highway called opportunity and drives its' 1966 muscle car towards an expanding vision of equality and smiles knowingly, aware that they decide the route, the length and the speed of the journey towards true freedom of choice.

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