I hate you Jeb. But please, go ahead and vote.

Many of you have weighed in on how American voters are typically uninformed. The implication is that if you’re a moron, you’re less entitled to exercise your right to participate in the democratic process. I agree. I have nothing but disdain for semi-literate 18-year olds who vote without any reasoned basis (excluding those semi-literate 18-year olds who have been shipped off to Iraq to be killed or maimed, of course). Lest you think my opinion is entirely the product of my contemptuous personality, consider this—I take the time to read the newspaper, I spent a year of law school taking civics for lawyers, i.e., constitutional law, and I certainly pay a butt-load more than you do in personal income taxes. I’m entitled. But let’s be honest. My stature as an “informed” citizen is really beside the point. It’s not self-governance and it’s not democracy unless everyone has the right to vote. And there’s no sense in bemoaning the poor decision-making of everyone else (if that’s indeed what it is—I often confuse “stupid” people with people that simply don’t agree with me). Our vote can’t be qualified in any way—it used to be, for rather transparent reasons: you have to be literate (i.e., not black); you have to be a man (i.e., not a woman); you have to be a land-owner (i.e., not poor). These limitations were thankfully done away with because the right to vote is an inalienable, fundamental right and not because blacks, women, or the poor were all of a sudden deemed capable of making “intelligent” decisions. So who the fuck cares if Jeb, the high-school drop-out is voting for Bush because Bush is full of Christ-love. His reasons are every bit as valid as mine because America isn’t just my country, it’s Jeb’s country too.