I was uninspired while performing my civic duty of voting today. We’re definitely making steps in the right direction with encouraging people to vote. You see it in commercials during sports games, which have mass appeal to the population, and there’s more general consensus that voting is a good thing. That’s a long way from just a hundred years ago, or the beginning of the formation of this country, or a thousand years ago.

But it’s not enough to just show up and fill in bubbles on a piece of paper. The next step is to develop an informed citizenry that doesn’t need to be told to vote, and the step after that is to improve the voting system, and make the actual propositions more accessible and transparent to all. Yes there’s a long way to go, and it will take a lot of hard work to get there. But we’re on our way, and I guess that’s something. We have it so much better than many other places in the world, and I think in this specific case, we should be greedy to push for more.