Vote

Last summer, Czechoslovakians were allowed to choose between voting one slate or handing in a blank ballot. Americans expected it, and they condemned it, as they have condemned all the rigged and controlled elections throughout Russia's zone of influence.

Today, those same Americans will generally be allowed to choose among eleven presidential candidates and among countless other alternatives. Many of them will not go to the polls.

There is something morally soft, something ideologically pulpy in the man who damns the lack of freedom abroad out of one side of his mouth, and out of the other damns the quality of the candidates at home, and refuses to vote. The same goes for the man who is too lazy to vote, or too busy, or too anything else you can think of. The right to vote is one of the big issues of the times; the duty to vote when you have the right is clear, simple, and absolute.