The act of voting once represented an exercise of American freedom and liberty — no longer. The 2012 presidential elections will become an exercise in hopeless consent to our failed economic policies, to war and the police state, and a rejection of peace, liberty, and the rule of law. We will go to the voting booth as if a prisoner heading to his prison cell to face four more years of harsh sentence. The partisan hackery which cripples this nation’s political discourse has left this country brimming with sad excuses and bereft of hope.

Retrospective: Three years after Obama’s inauguration