(A parody on Charles Dicken's "Christmas Carol")
It was November, Ebenezer NoVolte grumbled. Election season... campaign signs everywhere, pesty phone calls and the worse part was---KIDS! Kids coming to his door to campaign. If Ebenezer saw anymore pesty kids he would scream. Knock, knock, knock. Ebenezer screamed as he opened the door and found Generation Joshua kids handing him a paper "May you please vote for my candidate?" "Never!" shouted Ebenezer. After all, God will take care of everything--- he did not need to vote. What does one vote matter?
Ebenezer turned out the lights and went to sleep...
Clunk was heard at the door. Ebenezer was deep within a dream, he opened his eyes to find Paul Lazifere, his old friend who past away a few years ago. This was clearly a dream. Paul had voting ballots wrapped around his body, and told Ebenezer his punishment for not voting in the elections where he knew the candidate's stances, but did not vote because even though he knew who was right--- he didn't think the right guy could win. Because of this-- he was forced to wonder the world and warn others to vote in elections where they know the candidates.
"Not voting because there is no information on the candidates is fine, but if you know and look online and find information about the candidates, and choose not to vote because you think other's will you are mistaken. You will have three more dreams tonight, about the ghosts of elections past, present and future." Paul explained.
After Paul was gone, Ebenezer saw somebody at his door. It was Henry Clay, a famous statesman from the 1800s with light blond hair and bright blue eyes. "I'am representing elections past." Clay explained. "John Quincy Adams' election was so close, it was thrown into the House." If it wasn't for a few votes, JQA could have lost. Technically, John Quincy already lost, but those few votes kept him on long enough that the whole race was thrown into the House.
The next dream came with a present politician--- Jim DeMint. Jim DeMint had a long dark blue cape, and a charming southern drawl. DeMint showed Ebenezer around Washington, and introduced him to the men who would not be there if it was not for a few votes. Men who were polling at 5%, and won the election because people took their chances and voted for them. DeMint then departed from the happy scene of smiling senators and the White House with all it's grander and showed a different side of America. They were in Michigan. Houses sat abandoned, DeMint lifted and window and stepped inside--- children's toys were scattered across the floor, a letter lay unopened on the table--- foreclosed. DeMint then brought Ebenezer to New Jersey, into an abandoned hospital. Many were roaming the streets, because the economy in New Jersey was so poor, even hospitals have shut down. An old factory was outside, abandoned because the taxes were too high. DeMint uttered a famous quote he gave before; "If you don't vote, the problems in debt are not only your problems, you are the problem if you sit and refuse to do anything about them except complain. " With this warning DeMint disappeared, and the Election Future dream was coming.
A dark, shadowy figure of a former president appeared--- Andrew Jackson. Jackson explained to Ebenezer about the corrupt dealings and elite politicians who rule Washington if the people do not have a vote.
Jackson left, and Ebenezer awoke. Only a dream! He opened his window and shouted to a Generation Joshua campaigner on the street; "what day is it?"
Hesitant the campaigner shouted; "It's election day sir!"
Ebenezer trotted outside and screamed; "I don't care if you are conservative, liberal or moderate. This day is yours-- go vote!!!"
