Buyer's remorse.

Like the Constitution the words of wisdom by one of our founding fathers William Penn still ring true today. Penn is credited with saying:

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

The other day a good friend e-mailed me with what I would term as "buyer's remorse". The subject of the conversation was implicitly the direction our new President is taking this nation, and the explicit realization that she wished she could "get her vote back". This kinda thing really excites me. That excitement does not come from a realization that I articulated an argument powerful enough that in hindsight it still lingers, rather I am excited that she is interested in what is going on with the direction of this country.

I was probably not a popular person to talk to during the elections of 2008. I was a staunch opponent of Barrack Obama, and I went to an art school that was overwhelmingly liberal in ideology. I wasn't swept into the new "hip" campaign that had an awesome brand and great use of a helveticaesque typography (design-wise, they branded an awesome product with an effective campaign),  put on by the Democrats, and like I never do, I was not impressed with the color of either of the major party's candidates skin. I was interested in the issues, in our historical tradition, and in the direction that either person would take us.

I may seem like an oddball, because I am an art major, who is still comparatively(to other politicos) young in age, that happens to take a peculiar interest in politics and government, but I wish everyone with the power to vote took a serious interest in politics, or at the very least does the research to know what the candidate actually stands for, as opposed to what they say they stand for. In the end they are at best politicians, and generally will govern in-line with the same convictions that make-up their past voting record. 

Realization of the awesome gift our forefathers gave us in the ability to control the direction of our country with something so simple as a vote is really the greatest blessing they have secured for us as a people. What we do with that vote has a direct impact on the future we will secure for ourselves and our posterity. 

Do it wisely.