Thankfulness Day 4

I am thankful for freedom.  Today is Election Day in this country of ours.  I am a little (read here I really am) jaded and cynical about the American political system.  I tend to believe that our system is so irrevocably broken that it will never be fixed.  We are too divided.  Too opposite.  Too set in our ways.  To actually do America any good.  But maybe that is just me.  

That said - I am thankful I live in a place where I can have that opinion.  No one is going to come to my house and haul me to prison because I don't like our political parties.  I have the freedom to voice my thoughts without fear or reprimand.  I live in a place where, even if I don't like my choices, I still have choices.  No one told me who to vote for today.  No one stood at my polling place with automatic weapons "encouraging" me to vote one way or another.  

I did vote today.  I voted for people - flawed, conflicted, human - people.  And some of the ones I voted for will not win, but in a strange way that it is something else to be thankful for.  We will live in the country under leadership that often we didn't vote or and don't agree with, but the country will stand.  We won't rebel or take up arms.  We will respect the vote and do our part again in a couple of years.  And that, folks, is something for which to be thankful.  God bless the U.S.A.!