I was listening to the radio this evening and heard about some college students (in Virginia, I think) who went to a military recruiting station within the past day-or-two to attempt to exercise their right to serve. Since when does anyone have a right to serve in the military or in any other public capacity, from police officer, to dog catcher, to governor, to congressman, to president? They first declared themselves ineligible to exercise their privilege to serve. We The People have not called specifically upon them to serve, so it’s not a matter of them exercising their duty to serve.
I, they, and every other citizen of age has a right – and I would argue, a duty – to vote — which few exercise these days. Without first exercising their right to effect change, they come along and attempt to exercise their privilege to complain about what they want changed. If they would exercise their right to vote, they could then define the terms under which they could exercise their privilege to serve in the military. They could even go so far as to reinstate the draft and call upon themselves and/or others to do their/our/my duty to serve.
If more of us would exercise our right to vote, perhaps we’d throw off the Demoblican (or is it Republicrat — so confusing, I can never remember which is which anymore) oligarchy which has been running this country for far too long and replace them with some honest-to-goodness, put US-First statesmen. Could happen…if you’ll get off your ass and high-tail it down to the polling place in a couple months. I have neither the right, privilege, nor duty to cast your vote for you. So, you had better exercise your right to vote for someone other than your incumbent office-seeker if you want change — or — if you like how things are going — then by all means, exercise your right to vote to keep your bum. Personally, I’m going to exercise my right to toss every last one of my bums out on their ears. (The one exception being my County Commissioner, whom I have known personally for ten years and have already told, “I helped you get into office — I can just as well help you to get out of office.”)
