It pulls you in

There are those times when politics is just pushed on you, and there is no escaping it really. Sure you can avoid the ads, try hard to stay out of the discussions, but it dawns on you that even to stay out, is a statement, because political season has arrived in America, and it will pull you in one way or another.

And it is a duty of citizenship that taking a position, figuring out where you stand and pondering which way you want your country to go.

That voting thing is something you can do, or not. But at least you have a choice, in a system that asks for your input.

Other ways aren't as inclusive of your opinion as some group, or worst, some person may make all the decisions. That's a drag.

There is a thing though where maybe can feel lost in the masses with MILLIONS ultimately making the decision as if a vote is just one bit which is so small. What matters one vote then? But all bits make the whole.

Like am one person, but I feel empowered by my vote because I have a sense of millions of voters like me, who will decide. We're choosing, together.

The whirlpool feeling can be there, yes, as you feel like you're swirling down towards, what exactly? Where is it all going?

But your vote is a push. And millions of pushes will give a direction and a nation will forge forward down the path decided where there is a majority consensus.

Is there a better way? If so, we haven't found it, though people in countries where there is a different way might argue with me there! I don't feel like arguing. Not pushing anything on anyone but do feel good celebrating what is here, in my country.

With a muddled picture unlike any I've seen in my life, the political reality we're facing today begs for a bottom, if only the candidates would all find one, where maybe a little dignity were best?

On what does it all stand? Where is the fight going and for what really?

With so much being reported will admit am still not sure what's going on, and as battleground states merge into "Super" this day or that, get the feeling that something is missing.

There is no coherent narrative to me.

But you can feel the pull regardless, and a pressure to take sides, as the politics pulls you in.

And whomever you are, in my country, if you vote you will be a part of it. And your decision? Is yours.


James Harris