Vote As if Your Life Depends on It

To my conservative readers: please take pledge to vote and pass it to ten people.

http://www.make2012count.com/

To my leftist reader, who is here by unhappy mistake: sir, your candidate in whom you placed such hopes four years ago betrayed the principles for which you stand, did not end the War on Terror, did not close Gitmo, did not stop the rendition of prisoners of war to unsavory third world nations, and instead of savaging the Wall Street ‘Fat Cats’ on whom you blame our current economic woes, made sweet-hart deals with them, bailed them out with money that could have gone to the poor, protected them from retribution or market correction, and, in short, formed an even closer and more cozy relation with Wall Street than your hated enemy, Mr Bush. I will not insult your spirit by asking you to vote Republican, but I will ask you to sit this one out, and so keep your principles intact.

To the independent or undecided voters: no matter how noble your ideals for voting for the Green Party or the Libertarian Party or the Constitutionalist Party, the practical result of your vote in a race this narrow is a vote for Mr Obama. You will not offend your ideals by voting for a less than ideal candidate, or for a Party which has no doubt deeply offended you in times past, because a vote for Romney at this time and in this crux of events will allow the Republic to continue to exist, and he and his party may possibly listen to you and your grievances, and, perhaps reluctantly, perhaps under protest, may act to satisfy you. Mr Obama’s Administration, surrounded by a News Media fanatically devoted to protecting him at all costs and demonizing his opposition, will never listen to you, and if you dare open your mouth to them, expect to be treated like Joe the Plumber, and be subject to investigation, harassment by the press, harassment by the bureaucracy, and retaliation.

Even if Romney is as bad as you fear, a strong conservative showing in the House and Senate races, and the awakening from slumber of a press corps willing to criticize the government, will slow the rate of corruption.

It is not idealism to hand victory to an enemy set to ruin your nation and your life by denying your vote to a lukewarm ally who is less than ideal.

To all my readers of any party, I ask: What is at stake in this election?

This is not about two men, and so any discussion of the personal merits and demerits of the candidates is irrelevant.  This is not even about two parties, and so any discussion of the merits and demerits of the parties and their past behavior is likewise irrelevant.

This election is about whether the American Revolution, and that things for which it stands, shall prevail in America, or whether the French Revolution, and the things for which it stands, shall prevail in America.

It is about whether the American Dream lives or dies. Is that worth asking ten people to vote?

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Originally published at John C. Wright's Journal. Please leave any comments there.