Greet­ings troll drops read­ers! I just wanted to share with you some thoughts I had yes­ter­day while in my liv­ing room. I pulled my bal­lot out of the mail and sat down to caste my first ever vote for pres­i­dent of the United States. I also voted for gov­er­nor, attor­ney gen­eral, sec­re­tary of state, house rep­re­sen­ta­tives, supe­rior court jus­tices in the state of Wash­ing­ton, and sev­eral other impor­tant gov­ern­ment posi­tions. That is when it hap­pened. That is when I real­ized what I had just done I made democ­racy happen.

If you have ever taken a US his­tory course, or just about any polit­i­cal sci­ence course, you know that the pro­fes­sor, the text, and even your fel­low stu­dents try to con­vince you that democ­racy is this big fig­ment of the imag­i­na­tion we Amer­i­cans have. THEY ARE WRONG. By cast­ing and mail­ing in my bal­lot I have just exer­cised my con­sti­tu­tional right as an Amer­i­can cit­i­zen and per­formed my civic duty. I have just con­tributed to the Amer­i­can way of life with one sim­ple sweep of the pen. No mat­ter your pol­i­tics, no mat­ter your age, race, gen­der, reli­gion, or sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion, you can make democ­racy hap­pen by per­form­ing the same sim­ple act I did that holds so much weight for the future of our nation. Vote. Make democ­racy hap­pen in the com­fort of your own liv­ing room.