Celebrate the Process

Regardless as to how it turns out, this American election, as well as every other before it, has to be celebrated. It is an achievement rarely carried out to such success any where else on the globe.

Today's election was not the only important election to take place on planet Earth this year. Zimbabwe had an election too. This country, formerly known as the "breadbasket of Africa" is suffering from about a billion percent interest a year. That is, if you walked through the doors of a bakery with enough money to buy a loaf of bread, by the time you get to the counter you had best be content with the crumbs. But the price of bread in Zimbabwe is a lot more stable than the elections there. Political opponents had appendages cut off with machetes. Dissenters were burned alive. Villages were torched, crops destroyed, livestock slaughtered. Despite the election's outcome, negotiations between the major parties have not been completed to decide final ruling authority.

Israel had an election several weeks ago. No governing coalition could be formed. New elections will now have to be held.

Pakistan had parliamentary elections this spring. A major candidate was assassinated with the assistance of rouge elements within the country's own security forces. When the election occurred, the President lost his power base and was effectively rendered helpless to deal with any of the country's problems, that is, if the President had had any real power to deal with them to begin with.

Russia had an election in March. Constitutional construction in Russia allowed the former KGB operative Vladimir Putin to leave the presidency while still maintaining his influence on the country by shifting his chair to the prime ministers office. In a few more years Putin will probably again reside in the Presidential Palace.

There was no popular election in Cuba, just an election of National Assembly, but the socialist state did have a change in leadership as the communist murdering thug Fidel Castro was replaced with his younger brother, the communist murdering thug Raul.

In the US things are different. Sure, there will be numerous unfounded complaints by left advocacy groups of disenfranchisement while the left boldly circumvents as many rules as they can to win power, but in a country where millions upon millions of voters will cast ballots in private, the outcome of the election will almost certainly fall outside the margin of stealth.

We will have for leadership what we elected, as a people. Good decision or bad decision, right or wrong, we will have elected exactly what we deserve.

The process, if not the outcome, should be celebrated.