Election day is not the process of democracy, but the final expression of the process. The process takes years to reach the election stage, and never truly ends.

Election day is not the process of democracy, but the final expression of the process. The process takes years to reach the election stage, and never truly ends.
Memorial Day is set aside to honor those who cannot receive our thanks, having given all in the service of their nation. The highest thanks we can give is to ensure that no service member follows them except in the most dire of situations.
Respect for, and use of, the Democratic process is enshrined in the Principles of the UUA. Every Unitarian Universalist congregation is pledged to affirm and promote the idea that every person has a right to participate in the process by which they are governed. One thing that we ought to be more vocal about, though, […]