The Majority Is Always Wrong

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Open Poetry #43

The Majority Is Always Wrong

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2008-09-25 09:11 PM

The Majority Is Always Wrong

There is a madness in the land: the Voting Day...
and you’ve heard the standard lines used
to shame you into making a fool of yourself
along with the rest:
Exercise your right to vote - they say solemnly -
or lose your freedom of speech!
If you don’t vote, you can’t complain - they say solemnly -
and this, my favorite solemn pronouncement:
It’s because of people who don’t vote
that idiots run the government!

Well, that’s like saying:
it’s because of people who don’t drive
we have traffic jams, accidents and air pollution.
Yes, well, no wonder I think,
equally  solemnly,
the majority is always wrong!

What does it mean to ‘vote’?
To exercise one’s freedom of choice?
It means to be there when needed.
It means to care.
It means I desire to make the world into a better place.
To not do this from fear, greed or competition,
but rather out of love and compassion –
Always a personal choice,
never an institutionalized process;
never an enforced concept.
I vote everyday – do you?

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2008-09-25 09:21 PM

Right on the mark, WW.
We vote our consciences daily, in the way we live.

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2008-09-25 09:34 PM

Yo WindWalker,

The majority is not always right, nor is it always wrong. It is however the majority.

Bobby

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