November 9th 2006 2:18 pm
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"Rock the Vote" "Get Out the Vote" "Vote or Die"...lies, lies, filthy lies. After enduring months of messages about civic virtue, THIS proud Canine American found that the much-hyped "universal suffrage" that supposedly separates us from those nasty second-rate, third-world, chauvanist-pig kleptocracies is not so "universal" after all: WHAT DO YOU MEAN DOGS CAN'T VOTE??!

I am a good citizen, I abide by the social contract: I visit the sick, never leave messes on the public streets, arrange for taxes to be paid on my many necessities and accoutrements, pump cash into the economy by requiring regular walks. Laws effect my daily life: licensing, leash laws, public transit rules. And yet I am not allowed to have my opinion registered, my voice heard, in the grand and powerful scheme that is our representative democracy?

Who knew they still took that "one MAN one vote" thing so seriously...?

Disenfranchised,
Pearl