Todd and Lauren – The 8th Day Staff Requests – Please Vote November 6th

Marquette, Michigan – November 5, 2018 – So may have fought and died for your right to vote.  In our our republic voting is necessary to keep the govenment and tyranny in check.  If you don’t vote, others will decide for you, something not compatible with your natural free state (see John Locke).  If you want a monarchy, find one to join, but in the United States everybody that votes is the sovereign.

Through history, those that have squandered their right to vote have usually lost their right to vote.  Want to complain? Take the first step by actually doing something to fix the problem: Vote.

If you’re a women, it’s barely been 100 years that you could vote, so think of the suffragettes that put it all on the line for you.  If you are a member of a minority, the battles have been too many and the losses too great to waste your vote.  Remember, the battle never ends, to keep freedom, you have to hold it dear.

Every freedom you have in the United States depends more upon your fulfilling your responsibility to vote.  Your children and children’s children rely upon you not to lose this free republic.

Hate taxes? Vote.  Love taxes? Vote.

Your vote guards against crap candidates – James Madison, Federalist #10

In the first place, it is to be remarked that, however small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of a multitude. Hence, the number of representatives in the two cases not being in proportion to that of the two constituents, and being proportionally greater in the small republic, it follows that, if the proportion of fit characters be not less in the large than in the small republic, the former will present a greater option, and consequently a greater probability of a fit choice.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

James Bovard: “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ”

Plato: “Your silence gives consent.”

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