Well, here we are, on the eve before election day.

I’ve been privileged to vote in the last 8 elections, including four presidential elections.

Oddly enough, this year’s presidential election reminds me a lot of the situation in 2008.

That comparison has nothing to do with the candidates.

It has to do with the feeling in the air, the heaviness surrounding everyone and their rhetoric. The lyrics expressed in the following song were actually written during the summer of 2008.

We are an incredibly outspoken and opinionated group of people.

That is another incredible privilege.

I pride myself on loving most thing related to nerd culture, but I have always struggled with Spock’s infamous line of dialogue from The Wrath of Khan.

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one”

While incredibly logical, there is a built in cost, and it’s a cost that seems opposed to equilibrium.

I’d like to propose the idea that the needs of the many should equal the needs of the few.

An equal playing field, that neither favors nor opposes. It simply is.

The sun sets and rises on us all.

Every election decides:

Is “equality” as important as “in power”?

Time to vote.

But every election highlights the same responsibility.

Will we be moved to act in regards to the few, when we feel like we belong to the many?

Jaded is the fight, and yet, we must always try.