A Picture of Our Country

In just six days, the presidential election that will tell us much about the future of our nation will be over.

How many of us, in truth, agree with the direction of our country now? We will soon know.

The moment fast approaches when all the blathering of politicians matters not, when the nattering of talking heads on television will be as dust in the wind, when the shouts of angry loudmouths mean very little. Which of the current office-holders - with their smug double-speak, their winking coddling of extremists, their failure to distinguish between good and awful - actually speak for you?

Don’t let anyone else speak for you. Not now. Not this time.

What we’re doing right now, as a country, amounts to snapping a current snapshot of our ourselves as one American people.

Will you be in this picture?

The only way to do so is to take action now, to make your opinion heard in the only venue that politicians really pay attention to: In the voting booth.

Take action today. If you haven’t voted as yet (and, mind you, millions of us have by now) your options for participation have narrowed. Make your plan to vote, either on next Tuesday at your regular polling place, or at the early voting site nearest you. Inconvenience yourself, in one way or another, and do it now. Push out of your routine, if you are able, and do this for your country. And your family. And for yourself.

Time grows very short now. The closing of this election, whatever its outcome, rushes toward you now. The voting ends at 7:00 p.m, just after sundown, on next Tuesday.

Be in the picture.

© Keel Hunt, 2020