VOTE!

[desh]

I just came back from voting.

There was one office for which no one was running. I wrote in myself. I figure it's a novel way to look for a job, if nothing else. We'll see if anything happens.

Never before have I voted in an election in which the ballot issue is the most important. Philadelphia's democratic machine has been running overtime lately, with a recent corruption trial, an even more recent resigning of a city councilman due to corruption charges, and just a general stench of pay-to-play (a fancy term for bribery, I suppose) all around the city. The ballot question in Philadelphia is a complicatedly-worded thing about reducing the possibility for future pay-to-play arrangements. Voting YES on that felt better than most candidates I've voted for in the past. (Excepting myself, of course.)

Go vote! I don't care where you live. If there are elections being held today, they're important. (Especially in New Jersey and Ohio, among other states.) Go, go, go!

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[dagoski.livejournal.com]

Those of you wanting to make a change would do well to follow our man, desh's example, only with a bit more forethought. One way the conservatives have come to wield so much power is that they did not start out running on a national or even state level. They started running for all those local offices that no one pays attention to, developing a full fledged political machine at the local level. The people who took those little offices used them as stepping stones to build experience and connections to go higher. They also did the same at the party level, eventually taking over the Republican Party.

I'd be doing this myself except for the fact me and the wife'll be moving out of the area in two to three years when our degrees are complete or they throw us out. Whichever comes first. Academics are nomads.