A new electoral cycle is upon us, and with it all the usual apprehensions that come with what should be a mundane exercise in civility: An election ought to be that activity through which a polity decides whom among their numbers will be burdened with the responsibility of undertaking on behalf of many others weighty duties that nobody is prepared to shoulder; it demands self-abnegation.
Well, that is the idyll, anyway, that being chosen to do work on behalf of the many, places chores on you that you must carry out, most often asking you to sacrifice your valuable time and freedom.
