Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried*

In next year's spring I'll turn 18, and if the calendar supports me (it won't, as always), I'll be able to vote. In other countries you can vote at 16, but not in this one. But in other countries you vote and you still work 14 hours a day to earn a dollar, or you don't vote, or you starve whilst the "dear leader" spends millions on his new nooyukular toy, so I'm not complaining.

Am I excited about voting? Well, I'm part of the most prepared generation ever, and therefore disenchanted with democracy even before I vote, so excited is maybe too strong a word, but I do feel slightly motivated, and I do think my vote makes a difference.

Sure, it's just a 0.01% difference in the municipal level, a 0.0001% one in the autonomic one, a 0.000005% one in the Spanish and a 0.00000025% in the European, but unlike in other places, our governments somewhat carry out the mandate people place on them more than the one the markets, the churches or the military do, and it is my desire, no, my duty, not only to keep this so, but to improve it. And one of the ways to do that is to vote.

Finally, I believe that it is an indescribably hedonistic act of contempt to all the people who died to give us this right and to all the people who will inherit this planet from us not to vote.

So, to sum up, I’ll vote. You betcha.

For whom? That’s a secret.



*Quote stolen from Winston Churchill.