There are people
who do not examine
their assumptions,
question their convictions,
or inspect what they have heard is so.
Thinking about their thinking,
and seeing there seeing,
and listening to what they are saying,
and to what is being said to them,
are not skills they have developed
along the way.
Yet they get a vote like they know
what they are doing.
HOW do they know what they are doing?
Someone told them what to do.
This is not what the Founders
had in mind.
Free thinkers tend to think
that everyone wants to be free to think.
I think the people who want
to be free to think
do not constitute a majority
in any size crowd.
Tells you what democracy
means to the majority of crowds.
It is a wearisome thing,
trying to excite people
about things they aren't excited about.
Or trying to get people to think
about things
they have never thought about.
But, I take heart in what I take to be
a fact, namely that things have always
been this way.
We are always here by the narrowest
of margins.
Yet, here we are.
Hanging on
and hoping for the best.
One election at a time.
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