This Election Day, Vote Your Conscience
Greetings, my fellow Canucks.
Today is election day. The campaigning is pretty much over, now is the time for choosing. To everything there is a season (vote, vote vote). A time for voting, a time for complaining. A time for rejoicing, a time for protesting. To everything there is a season (vote, vote, vote).
Yeah, anyway, I'm thinking that now is the time to get past partisanship and just enjoy the fact that we are free to choose who we want to make the decisions in Ottawa. We've had some knock-down, drag-out debates here and elsewhere, but the great thing is that we're free to have such debates. A lot of people in this world aren't that lucky, but we are, and it's our duty to respect our imperfect yet beautiful system and the sacrifices made to create and defend it.
A lot of us have been struggling. Most of us here are younger people, though the following isn't age-specific, a lot of us young people wonder what the people before us were thinking, and we want to do better, we want a certain kind of country for our own time. We hope, we wish, we dream. We should be the generation that puts fear and pettiness aside and does the right thing, the thing we believe in. This is a democracy, and we have the right to vote. People died for this right. We owe them and all those who came before us to do what we truly believe in, and vote our conscience.
Let's be idealists, you and I, today.
If only once, if only for one day, let it be today.
Now more than ever, we should walk the walk we've been talking up since whenever. We've still got our dreams, and we won't let anyone take them away from us. It's time, ladies and gentlemen. Vote your conscience. Respect your vote for the wondrous thing that it is. Be honest with your opinions, choose who you really believe deserves to be in Ottawa, and you'll be able to look at yourself in the mirror and know you did the right thing.
Doing the right thing. That's what we're here for, isn't it?
Today is election day. The campaigning is pretty much over, now is the time for choosing. To everything there is a season (vote, vote vote). A time for voting, a time for complaining. A time for rejoicing, a time for protesting. To everything there is a season (vote, vote, vote).
Yeah, anyway, I'm thinking that now is the time to get past partisanship and just enjoy the fact that we are free to choose who we want to make the decisions in Ottawa. We've had some knock-down, drag-out debates here and elsewhere, but the great thing is that we're free to have such debates. A lot of people in this world aren't that lucky, but we are, and it's our duty to respect our imperfect yet beautiful system and the sacrifices made to create and defend it.
A lot of us have been struggling. Most of us here are younger people, though the following isn't age-specific, a lot of us young people wonder what the people before us were thinking, and we want to do better, we want a certain kind of country for our own time. We hope, we wish, we dream. We should be the generation that puts fear and pettiness aside and does the right thing, the thing we believe in. This is a democracy, and we have the right to vote. People died for this right. We owe them and all those who came before us to do what we truly believe in, and vote our conscience.
Let's be idealists, you and I, today.
If only once, if only for one day, let it be today.
Now more than ever, we should walk the walk we've been talking up since whenever. We've still got our dreams, and we won't let anyone take them away from us. It's time, ladies and gentlemen. Vote your conscience. Respect your vote for the wondrous thing that it is. Be honest with your opinions, choose who you really believe deserves to be in Ottawa, and you'll be able to look at yourself in the mirror and know you did the right thing.
Doing the right thing. That's what we're here for, isn't it?