Voting Booth Quixotes

"Suffrage(Universal): The summit of political science."

----Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas.



To walk into a voting booth in November of any year and think
you are doing your "civic duty" and acting fully "American" is
analogous to Don Quixote thinking, by riding an old roan, hiring
a servant, Sancho, who rides an ass, he is a Knight Errant of the
Chivalric Age doing brave deeds for his Fair Maiden.

The voter's Fair Maiden is "making a difference" and the
heroic deed is the secret vote. The ass groans under the weight
of Chivalric "Civic Duty" and its shopkeeper's idealism. Huge
money interests(lobbies, corporations, etc) behind both of the two
main Political Money Machines are the Windmills the voter must
choose between.

At every polling station a worker is there ready to acclaim
the act with a sticker each voter proudly parades. I "made a
difference"! The voting cattle waddle on with bovinely smiles of
self satisfaction and damn those who refuse to participate in mass
marketed mockeries of universal suffrage-- Where moneyed
interests win every time. The Voting Both Quixotes parade like
brave paladins when the front man or woman for their Money
Machine gets the nod. Here we think of the proud Sancho Panza
being named the Admiral of a landlocked Duchy in Spain.