So many people have become lazy in society. I find that many voters are single issue voters and this is a sign of that laziness. I call it shallow voting. That is not what voting is about. Voting is an ancestral honor I see that now. Voting is an agreement to engage in society together. It is not something we are "given" to placate us, it is tool we decided to use. We also are not islands unto ourselves, we are social creatures, not unlike horses, gorillas etc. and people would do well to remember that. We work together to create harmony and the best chances of survival of the species. It is the ones who have sought to over power all others (dictatorships, monarchies) that decide they get to be something else and the rules of a society do not apply to them. Hear me out to the end on this.
Equality already exists yet we need so much to help us see that so we devise laws to keep each other in check. Some are laws that should not be laws, and others that should be. We are weary because we want to not think about how these laws effect us all when we could have a more informed society of people who understand this and agree that laziness is not an option.
People need to THINK about why a law should be in effect. Is it to Lord over another? Or to bring harmony and prosperity to society? If it only is about power then it is not a good law. If it is mutually beneficial then it is what is needed in society. Laws can help not hurt and we need to stop the diatribe that it is an evil thing, though in the wrong hands laws can give too much say to the wrong people.
Think about it, take voting seriously and explore what why and how your representatives are doing their jobs. If they are not representing societies needs towards a harmonious whole then they are the fringe and they are seeking something else.
Single issue voting is due to a laziness, a lack of care to know what other ways we can help those around us. It sounds exhausting to know so much but we are in fact capable of making better choices when we know more about the needs of our society. Changes happen and are often needed as time goes on and we cannot cement ourselves in what worked before something enlightens to do something new and more beneficial for us. That is what progress is for. Single issue voting inhibits progress.
Some day people may either lose the capability to vote because as a society we say it no longer serves us to do so, but that could be either good or bad. On the good side it could mean that as a society we have discovered some higher ability to live harmoniously with each other and there are no longer power mongers amongst us. Or on the bad side of it, if we lose it is is because we became indifferent and apathetic to our fellow man.
There is good and longstanding reason that democracy existed well before the United States existed. Democratic forms of governance were practiced throughout world cultures, contrary to misinformed belief the Greeks did not invent it. So why would such things exist if it did not serve well the people who practiced it? So this too is a lesson from our ancestors. They were social, they understood the needs of their people and they knew what was needed to do it. So that said take care of each other and vote because if you check out from apathy or laziness but you have benefited from the good of organized democratic societal tools then you are not honoring your forebears. My ancestors carried me too far through time to ignore the lessons they learned. So I vote.
Equality already exists yet we need so much to help us see that so we devise laws to keep each other in check. Some are laws that should not be laws, and others that should be. We are weary because we want to not think about how these laws effect us all when we could have a more informed society of people who understand this and agree that laziness is not an option.
People need to THINK about why a law should be in effect. Is it to Lord over another? Or to bring harmony and prosperity to society? If it only is about power then it is not a good law. If it is mutually beneficial then it is what is needed in society. Laws can help not hurt and we need to stop the diatribe that it is an evil thing, though in the wrong hands laws can give too much say to the wrong people.
Think about it, take voting seriously and explore what why and how your representatives are doing their jobs. If they are not representing societies needs towards a harmonious whole then they are the fringe and they are seeking something else.
Single issue voting is due to a laziness, a lack of care to know what other ways we can help those around us. It sounds exhausting to know so much but we are in fact capable of making better choices when we know more about the needs of our society. Changes happen and are often needed as time goes on and we cannot cement ourselves in what worked before something enlightens to do something new and more beneficial for us. That is what progress is for. Single issue voting inhibits progress.
Some day people may either lose the capability to vote because as a society we say it no longer serves us to do so, but that could be either good or bad. On the good side it could mean that as a society we have discovered some higher ability to live harmoniously with each other and there are no longer power mongers amongst us. Or on the bad side of it, if we lose it is is because we became indifferent and apathetic to our fellow man.
There is good and longstanding reason that democracy existed well before the United States existed. Democratic forms of governance were practiced throughout world cultures, contrary to misinformed belief the Greeks did not invent it. So why would such things exist if it did not serve well the people who practiced it? So this too is a lesson from our ancestors. They were social, they understood the needs of their people and they knew what was needed to do it. So that said take care of each other and vote because if you check out from apathy or laziness but you have benefited from the good of organized democratic societal tools then you are not honoring your forebears. My ancestors carried me too far through time to ignore the lessons they learned. So I vote.
