On Voting

My vote is not a statement of purity. I don't vote (or not vote) as a means of putting myself above anybody.

I vote to exercise my right to pull the one small lever of power granted to all of us by the US Constitution.

There are no perfect candidates. No perfect office-holders. No perfect humans aspiring to lofty positions in my government.

There are people running for office who hold beliefs and espouse philosophies similar to mine - and they're the ones I try to identify and then vote for.