If You're Feeing Cynical About Elections or Life...
Standing in the line at the voting precinct, I'm smiling to myself. There's just something about election day that awakens hope. But there in front of me I met a man who has lived cynical. Cynical is easy to live. He was standing in front of me and said that in his 57 years, this was the first time he had ever come to vote. He told me that he watches eight hours of news a day, and well, maybe all that overwhelming flood of cynicism had done something to him. But here he was, standing in front of me, about to sign his name on the register of people who had come to be heard, to be a voice that had too long been silent. He said that he had complained about the president and the government but he never did anything about it, and so here, today, he was finally going to be heard. And what I saw in those eyes was a light, like a candle in a storm, it was, I think, hope. We talked about our party and the candidates and the issues and all this hope of chang...