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Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:
> ......That said, I've become a very cynical person of late. ......
> ........I hope my vote truly counts. But with persistent voting machine 
> problems,
> with thousands of people having been purged who won't learn they have until
> too late and the myriad of other problems surrounding the vote, the whole
> thing makes me suspicious and cynical, like voting is a ritual we do because
> we wish to exercise that Right, when mostly I'm starting to think the whole
> act of voting for President is a drama played every four years because we
> expect as much......
>   
I realized recently that I too am maybe more cynical than anything 
else.  The first time I felt that was near the end of the last election, 
and this time it's really sinking in.

It's a sorry thing to contemplate, and leaves one feeling powerless.  I 
don't mind not having power as an individual but when we as a people are 
powerless it's a whole 'nother ball game, and recently I feel apathy and 
bitterness trying to edge their way in.....not usually my response to 
much of anything.  I think we are all going to need plenty of strength 
in the times coming up, can't waste time/energy where they don't count, 
but it's getting harder and harder to see where that is.

Susan Jane, in Maine