• election rhetoric

Voting is such a basic right in a healthy democracy, yet it becomes the nexus of so much corruption...here, and elsewhere in the world. The people are the stake-holders, as it were, and our votes are the stakes. But what happens when those stakes are denied us, or worse, forced upon us with no viable set of options. The ONE candidate, the ONE stake, sets up a sham election...and often a violent sham at that. Zimbabwe is a prime example of the classic double bind, damned if you do, damned if you don't. 'Hanging chads' takes on a whole new meaning (along with lynching/cinching the vote). What happened in Zimbabwe should be paired with classroom discussions and writing prompts as we enter this last stretch in the U.S. presidential election.

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