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The article was originally written at the tail end of the 2012 presidential race, and I have kept it up to date every few months over the past eight years.
It's your choice whether you want to join in the discussion or let us do the thinking for you.
We interact with our co-workers, our family members, and people randomly in public, but we don't really have to do much communication.
I think it's far more important that the international community start recognizing America as one of the leading voices for peace than waiting for Obama to, for example, solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
America's behavior affects almost every corner of the world. As the self-proclaimed greatest nation on Earth, it's our duty to act like it.
Just take a look at Venus and Mars. We can literally point to our sister planets and say, "See that? That could happen to us!"
Though voting may seem pointless to some, it's the discussions surrounding the election and the lead-up to it that truly matters. And considering how few people actually vote, each vote is worth far more than one. For every person that does not vote, there is someone that votes for them. And if you're comfortable letting other people vote for you, then by all means sit at home while "they" think for you.
If you really want to boil it down to the absolute basics, I believe the reason we are alive is entropy. It's the only "force" that ensures that things will change, and change is absolutely necessary for the existence of life.