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with your friends because it matters what you think. We have tonight as our topic, justice, politics and justice, you know, in terms of what Aquinas

he had to say about these topics and what they might teach us today.

Millions of Americans went to the polls today to vote.

It's election day. Let's take a minute just to ask,

what is voting? What I mean, what did you do? What did our fellow citizens do today, in fact?

What is voting? We're all taught that this is something important to do, and probably our American conscience, you know, pricks us if we fail to do it.

But why? Why do it? What's the point?

What's that?

Try to get the clowns out of office.

That's not a bad reason to vote.

Preference, revelation, or how we want the country run.

Sure.

Right.

So it's the opportunity for each and every individual citizen, guided by his own conscience, to make a decision in secret, or let's say just outside of the eyes of others, for what?

You said preference. What other motives might one have for voting?

That's a good question. I mean, what is, what does the voter go into the booth to do?

What's his, what's his goal?

It's best for the kind of good?

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