Please Just Vote

Go vote.

Gore Vidal says this is the most important election in his lifetime:

We’re facing the most important election in my lifetime—which does not quite extend back to that of Abraham Lincoln, but it’s pretty close. There’ll be nothing more important in the voting line that one can foresee that will come our way while any of us is still hobbling around. This will determine whether we regain the republic which we have lost over the last five years.

So, my fellow countrymen, as I sit here, not yet at Gettysburg, I have a notion that this is the most important vote that you’ll probably ever cast. Because should this gang of thugs continue in the two houses of Congress, there isn’t any chance of getting the Constitution back....

This is the last chance, really, by getting some new chairpersons to head committees in the House ... to have a clean sweep, which, in normal times, if we’d ever enjoyed them, would have happened by now. Now it has got to happen, or welcome to the Third Reich.

What is at stake? Just some little things:

Privacy
Habeus corpus
The rule of law
The US Constitution
The Bill of Rights
Torture
Extra rendition
Signing statements
Honesty
Integrity
Responsibility
US prestige
AMERICAN FORCE'S LIVES
Our way of life
Freedom of the press
Freedom to travel
All freedoms
Trial by a jury of your peers
Representment by an attorney
Truth
Justice
The American way
Did I mention apple pie?
Oversite
Balance of powers
Intelligence
Pay to play politics
Nepotism
Corporate control of Washington
Pre-emtive attacks
Nukular options
Theocracy
Neocon control of the puppet

Hey, add to the list. There really is no end to it.