In School

The school of life! Perhaps, it's all about

learning the principle of the thing -- the

issue -- the cause.

Term limits, for instance. Sometimes it's

important to vote on principle.

If we want a democracy, and the people

who voted voted against term limits, but

the incumbent still overturned the term

limits so that he could run again in the

election, and he was rich enough to

convince many influential folk to encourage

their constituency to vote for him on the

basis of the good he was able to accomplish

-- and perhaps he is the better candidate, but

the way in which he went about running

again defeats all that I value, then I vote on

principle.

But, I learned that in the school of life and

hanging out with social justice minded

people who were against war because

human beings get killed in wars.