My 2 cents...about 2 cents worth (David Warlick)

     David Warlick is an edublogger whose most recent post was on our "civic duty." This post not only expressed his disappointment about not being to do more, but also referenced a very smart and funny show that I've watched on more than one occasion: Jeff Daniels' The Newsroom.  That alone was enough to intrigue me, but I also appreciated and share some of the same sentiments about that state of elections and voting in today's society.
     It seems, now more than ever, that the votes that count the most come not from people, but from checkbooks (or, more accurately, wallets); not from the average American citizen, but from millionaires, billionaires, and big corporations. Unfortunately, I can't compete with that, which is worrisome...doesn't that contradict everything for which our country used to stand? What happened to caring about the "poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free?" Or, as Mr. Warlick eloquently stated:
   
     "...this election was not about issues.

This election was about volume. ..and volume is $bought$ before the voting begins.

This election happened in dark rooms where checks were written, adding zero after zero, with the expectation that the writers would soon be legally freed from many of the consequences of acting to add many more zeros to their bank accounts."

    As discouraging as that sounds, I still believe (perhaps rather naively) that a person's voice and vote is important, and that the political process that we have, while severely broken, can be fixed (if enough of those voices speak and are heard). So I hope that in the next election, enough of them will speak out as opposed to stay silent.