Democracy Starts With You
Category: Myth Smacking
Yeah, that’s right. I just said that politics is not about winning. At least not the way that we’re conditioned to think about it. Imagine for a crazy moment that Team Red and Team Blue are not the actual competitors. Imagine if something else motivated our politics. It’s only after that consideration that we’ll get to the truth: politics isn’t about winning.
This might be my craziest supposition yet: money absolutely rules. Many live their whole lives in pursuit of the acquisition of money; we feel desperate and destitute without it, and no matter what the income level, it seems like we can all agree that there’s never enough of it. As eager as we are for money in our own lives, it seems to have an even greater sway over our political system. Each new election seems to meet some unprecedented spending limit, whether that’s to take a seat on a school board or in the Oval Office.
But I’m not trying to smack down the myth that our system is flush with cash. I’m going to smack down the myth that it matters more than anything else. Here’s the real secret to politics: your vote is the most powerful tool you have. And as long as you won’t let it be for purchase, you keep the money monsters at bay.
Citizen Zero 