[LEMONS] 11.07.2001
This sounds weird, but I love to vote. I always have. I remember having a mock presidential election at my elementary school, Greengate in 1980. I Don't remember who I voted for. Hope it was Carter, but it probably was Reagan. When I was a little kid, I used to love to see old Grampa Reagan on the teevee. But still, the "election" remains one of my most vivid memories, walking into the modified closet with a makeshift curtain and writing a name on a slip of paper. I remember going with my Mom to vote as a little kid, and her letting me come into the poll with her. I vividly recall my first experience voting--a gubernatorial race in Alabama. And the voting process here in California is one of the many reasons I love this state. It's so republican, all the propositions make me feel like I *am* the government--which is sorta the whole point of America, don't you think? I love to vote on propositions, even the ones I really have to struggle with them and I'm not sure that I've done the right thing. Hell, I just love participating in a democracy, even when the guy I voted for doesn't make the runoff (and it goes a long way towards explaining why I was so upset that we had this bloodless coup in which democracy was subverted in the Dauphin's favor last year). So when I read articles about people not voting it pisses me off. Our electoral process is wonderful, it's blissfull. Particularly here in California. We get to do something that virtually nobody else in the world does here in the Golden State. We've got to take advantage of it.
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