I would like to encourage you all to vote tomorrow. I am doing this because most of you will probably vote roughly the same way that I would.
I understand that these are only midterm elections, and voting senators and representatives might not be as "sexy" as voting for president, but they are just as important. You see, our country was founded on the principles of checks and balances. If - oh, I don't know - some incompetent war mongerer were elected to be president and surrounded himself by corrupt, money-hungry liars, then our system of checks and balances would limit this president's power so that he/she doesn't do too much damage to the country.
Not that this would ever happen, mind you. However, suppose for a second that it did, and further suppose that the legislative branch were filled with his friends that, say, let him wage war on a country that never attacked us while the president neglected to try hard to find the actual people who attacked us. If this were to happen, our system of checks and balances would be considered to be "broken." That is, nothing would be checked, and nothing would be balanced (Note: please don't confuse the phrase "checked and balanced" with the phrase "fair and balanced," which doesn't mean what you would expect it to).
My people: tomorrow is the day when we can tune-up (read: "completely overhaul") our system of checks and balances so that if any of these completely ridiculous situations were to come up, our legislative branch could put a stop to it. This is as important as a presidential election (more important if you might be stuck with a president who, say, is so incompetent that he doesn't even bother to try to help victims of horrific hurricanes for days. By the way - I'm just making these examples up off the top of my head).
Go and vote. If you love America, you love checks and balances. Here is your chance to make sure that system is working.
posted by Dirk Awesome @ 1:48 PM
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