VERY MINI RANT

Anyone who doesn't vote in every election and uses as an excuse that they don't believe either party can make a difference, or even that there isn't any difference between the parties, should be made to visit the graves of the millions who died as a direct result of the elections of Richard Nixon in 1968 and '72 and of George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. Or made to walk every mile of road and the bridges that connect them that are in disrepair because a Republican Congress has thwarted much of a Democratic president's agenda in the last several years or supplement the incomes of working people who cannot earn enough to feed themselves without food stamps and even then often end up homeless with their entire families, et-endlessly-cetera...