THE VOTE OF OUR LIVES

THE VOTE OF OUR LIVES

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” Thomas Jefferson

This is an election about Change, a turning point time of change in the lives of all men and all countries. Life is about change and change involves learning, broadening our horizons and changing our minds in the light of new facts.

In this most provocative, stimulating, and frightening election process, where we have spent hours researching the issues and our candidates’ positions on those issues, hours working for our candidate, where we held our breath and prayed for guidance and even miracles, there are few left in the country who do not realize that this is the election of our lives. The America that we were raised to cherish, honor, fight for, and be grateful for every day of our lives, is in crisis on multiple levels and she needs we the voters as much as we need her, indeed, as much as the world needs her.

The news coverage this week provided undeniable acknowledgement of this world wide need for change as country after country expressed their desires for the outcome of our election as though they fervently wished they could step into our voting booths and cast their own vote in our election.

Having invested in our faulty financial and foreign policy systems, they have come to the consensus of opinion that we cannot proceed with the current principles of government that have destroyed the world economy and concurrently destroyed the foundation America was built on, that all men are created equal. We are voting to end the two party system, the party of the wealthy who control the world economy, and the party of the rest of us, the working citizens of the world.

As a political person from a political family who ran for public office, among the many who feels betrayed and heartbroken at the condition our country is in, among the many who still cries hearing the National Anthem, watching our flag is being raised or folded over our brave who have given their life to preserve the American way, I finally feel great hope for that way of life that has all but perished. The citizens of the world still hold that hope as they look on, hoping to get to our shores someday for their opportunity to work hard to provide a decent life for themselves and their families, and participate in the crown of American citizenship…the privilege of casting a vote critical to the global community.

Well, here we are Americans. It’s finally time to make the final commitment and cast our votes for whomever we believe will bring the meaning of America back into focus and resolution for its citizens and the world that used to hold our country up as a model of a government worth attaining.

After all our heated discussions and complaining, in the midst of our concerns and fears about our country’s and the world’s failed economy, the loss of our jobs and pensions, and the legalization of the denial of our constitutional and human rights, our time has come.

Now is the time we can choose hope over fear based on a renewal of commitment and courage as American citizens step up and become proactive about their government by working for their candidate and standing in line for hours to vote. We are asked to trust that change is coming, that intelligent decision making based on the welfare of the country and its populace, not just the enrichment of the few, will actually take place.

Let each of us choose whomever we believe will tell us the truth, follow the guidelines of reconstructing America, conscientiously investigate and examine the facts before making Presidential decisions, and has character enough and love enough for our country to work across party lines cooperatively, and consider the wisdom and guidance of our many experienced leaders.

This is your country and your choice America so stand up and make it by casting your vote. During this election where the debacle of four years ago hasn’t been resolved, we still haven’t changed our election process from challenges with malfunctioning machines, circulation of false voting information, emerging voter registration problems, and thousands being denied their voting rights even before the election based on false premises, erroneous lists, and selective denial of electorate populations.

Every vote is urgently needed to offset these election challenges or we may not succeed in turning our country around. Now is the time to cast fear, tradition, and indoctrination out and change your party affiliation, change your mind, change your convictions, change your life, change yourself and be true to yourself. Be an independent thinker and vote your conscience not that of those who came before you or the group you associate or affiliate with.

Vote your beliefs, vote your gut intuition, vote your informed decision but remember to keep an open and receptive mind while making that choice.

The amazing thing about the human mind is that is it teachable, flexible, changeable, and constantly downloading thousands of bits of new information to digest, internalize, and use as a basis for future decision making.

Yes, we have all been influenced by our family party traditions and biases both intergenerationally and genetically. Yes, we have all been socialized by the age of seven by our schools, the media, and our religious preferences. Yes, we are constantly being bombarded with the beliefs and dispositions of the media, the internet, and our friends and associates. But we have the power to change ….again…. and… again… and again. Life is change not stagnation. Vote your beliefs but make sure they’re yours and not someone else’s.

As humans we have the powers and the responsibility of discernment, judgment, and discrimination. We can learn about the critical matters mankind is facing and judge for ourselves what seems to be the best path available with what is being handed to us by the current administration. It is up to each of us to listen to the candidates with discernment, including the wisdom of our intuition, and then choose which platform is consistent, informed, intelligent, and most in alignment with what we want to see happen in our country. At this time, we must be discriminating about who and what we vote for in this election.

As a collective group of voters, we certainly haven’t been discriminating in the past. We can no longer afford to “automatically” vote for the familiar good ole boys who have run our country into the ground. This vote must be a conscious one. No matter which candidate you choose, make it a conscious selection after careful deliberation.

Man’s executive power is will, free will being the gift we were given in order to make our own decisions about what we believe, how we think, and the actions we take. We are free not follow the crowd, not to be influenced by the media, not to repeat our parent’s lives… prejudices and all.

The hope of humanity, especially during this time of radical shift in human consciousness so perfectly choreographed with the shift in the world’s model of government, is that as rational compassionate beings, we can learn new information and new ways of doing things as come to understand and respect different and divergent viewpoints instead of just waging war on anyone who disagrees with us. The world is begging for a leader who comprehends that on the deepest level of humanity, we are all moving as one toward a common goal.

Every citizen is creating the future of this country by voting his preference or declining to vote in this election to change the conditions of the world. We’re in the end game, the time of fruition, after working all our lives for a better world for our children that includes and cherishes every creature that inhabits the planet. Our vote in this particular election at this particular time is our opportunity en masse to make a difference for the generations to come.

Adele Tartaglia