Owen wrestles with voting and the morality of politics at a critical time in his life and two weeks before the federal election. Having come from a protestant  place of churching people and into the Catholic faith where social ills and morality are addressed more openly, he finds himself deep in thought about the imperfection of democracy.

On the other hand to choose not to vote is a repudiation of our democratic right, no argument.  It is irresponsible, lazy, and immature.  Even without getting into rightie rhetoric about a coming totalitarian rule here in the North Americas {perhaps not as cracked a position as one might first think} to not vote is a bad message send to the powerful.  To tell them we might be OK giving up our democratic rights altogether is foolishness.  True, there may be other ways to say, I won’t accept being a pawn, but the strongest way is still to continue to exercise our right to vote while we have it.