A Fragile Vote

I almost didn’t vote today. In the past, I would wake up at the crack of dawn to be an early bird at the polls. Today it took most of the morning to make me decide to go, and mostly because I had written an essay a few weeks ago about my disappointment that a significant percentage of the American electorate did not vote last November, especially those leaning liberal, which paved the way for Trump 2.0. I didn’t want to be a hypocrite. So I voted. I was in and out of my precinct in minutes, which was miraculous.

But later I observed that many people I know who were so passionate about getting the vote out in the last election were not voting either. Have we lost our faith in our democracy?