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Hello my fellow Politiores Troglodytes. This Blog is a collection of Posts, Poems, & Short Stories that I write on a daily basis. If you find it entertaining, informative, and controversial, then I have done my job properly. Thank goodness too, because Karma has been on my case of late. I'm supposed to bring fifty people into the fold or I'll have to give back the part of Einstein's brain I inherited. No, I'm not one of the Scientists who got a piece of his brain when he died. Karma said, "Eat this knowledge. It'll make you smarter!" The bargain I made with Karma was, if I could change fifty people into Politiores Populos, I would be rewarded with my very own Lamborghini. So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Like what you're reading, then read on. P.S. Populo is Latin for people. Politiores is Latin for educated. Troglodytes is English for troglodytes. And Einstein's brain was stolen by Thomas Stoltz Harvey after his death in 1955 and eventually divvied up into 240 pieces. If you just read that last sentence, then you have just learned something and I'm just that much closer to fulfilling my commitment to Karma!

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Your Vote Counts - Use It

Every now
and then,
I will hear someone say, 
"My one vote doesn't count." 
If you knew your history,
you might think twice before making that statement.
The election of 1948 was so close at the time that the people at the 
Chicago Tribune 
decided that
Thomas E. Dewey
was going to win.
So they printed a headline in their papers saying he had.
Before the election was over.
Here are some examples of one vote making a difference.
1645: 1 VOTE gave control of England to Oliver Cromwell
1649: 1 VOTE approved the beheading of Kings Charles I
1800: 1 VOTE made Thomas Jefferson president instead of Aaron Burr
1845: 1 VOTE brought Texas into the United States
1850: 1 VOTE admitted California and Oregon into the United States
1868: 1 VOTE saved President Andrew Johnson from Impeachment
1875: 1 VOTE ended the monarchy in France for a voting democracy
1876: 1 VOTE made Rutherford B. Hayes a United States President
1876: 1 VOTE elected the Indiana Electoral College member who voted for Hayes
1923: 1 VOTE placed Adolph Hitler as the leader of the Nazi Party
1941: 1 VOTE kept the military draft operational just weeks before Pearl Harbor
1992: 1 VOTE selected a member of the Town Council of Trinity, Alabama
1992: 1 VOTE decided the final member of the Selma, Alabama city council
How decisions that change history are determined by just a few votes.
1788: 3 VOTES ratified the U.S. Constitution in New York
1790: 2 VOTES ratified the U.S. Constitution in Rhode Island, making it approved in all 13 states
1960: 1 VOTE changed in each precinct would have defeated John Kennedy
1976: 1 VOTE changed in each Ohio precinct would have elected Gerald Ford and not Jimmy Carter
1993: 1 VOTE by Al Gore approved the largest tax increase in American history
If you want to find more up to date examples,
you need to do your own research.
I'm tired of typing examples to prove my point.
My other point is,
"Ask what you can do for your country!"
I have a solution just for those who feel it is too hard to get involved.
A great website where you can get involved.
It has everything the 
Laziest Couch Potato 
could want to have on deciding the issues of today.
It's right at your fingertips
and your keyboard.
The main reason I like the website is because this is where I was able to sign a petition which I feel effects us all.
Here,
you can search through all the
Open Petitions
going on right now
and sign the ones that affect your life.
Or you can start a petition of your own if you feel there is something that needs to be addressed. 
Computers 
and the 
Internet 
can be used as wonderful tools in the right hands. 
Now take a stand, 
take ten minutes away from playing games, 
social networking, 
or shall I say it, 
you favorite porn sites 
and 
Feel the Power of Participating 
by 
Doing Something For Your Country!

This is,
I Don't Just Talk About The Issues - I Petition On What I Feel Is Right,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Issac Asimov -








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