A little ditty for election day:
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.”
— Henry David Thoreau, from Resistance to Civil Government (1849)
Note: With the release of version 4 of Suno, I recreated the song and replaced the original version with the new one here. It is much improved in both sound quality and song structure, plus I was able to change a few words that I wasn’t satisfied with in the original.