I Am Entitled To Vote
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
History is not only the prerogative of the powerful, it is the accumulated experience of ALL people – Anne-Kaete Schepers.
One of the credos I live by with many of the minds I share wisdom from – in the Simple Freedom Community, in the Empower Network Community, in the Freedom Nation United Community , etc. etc. – is that of “A Life Worth Living Is A Life Worth Documenting”
It was the hope of, my mother, the remarkable person who documented her first fifty years in order that, through reading about this one life, the lessons it teaches might serve future generations as they travel life’s journey. This episode talks to voting in England for the first time as a citizen of a new country – post World War Two England. Also to the necessity of an informed electorate.
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This was a tremendous task for me. I took this to be one of my most important decisions in my life. Having to decide which would be the right party to lead the country. And, of course, the right party to do something for my own class, if this was possible at all.
It was just as well the roof over the whole country, my beloved Royal Family would not change. We were only to decide the ceiling. No Hitler, whatever happened, could ever take this gentle free country over. We had our wonderful King George over everything (How simple my philosophy was then, Would it could all have been like that. . . . ).
And so I went to the Library and got as many books as I could on the subject. I listened to the Radio as much as I could, on the various parties. I listened to the people in the shops or wherever they talked about the present politics.
In my simple mind I just dare not take note of my dear friends, Mr. and Mrs. Grenshaw alone. Hadn’t just these kind of people at one time in Germany shut their eyes as to what happened, just because they thought Hitler was an upstart from the lower classes? When he had got in, they turned their backs on all Politics and just did not inquire anymore what he was doing. All we know now is what happened after that in recent history!!!! So I must decide for myself.
And I did not find these Labour people all that uneducated – far from it. And the things Clement Attlee promised did not seem all that far removed from what I thought would be great. A Welfare state to make things easier for the old, infirm, and consciencious workers did not seem all that wrong. And so I voted, for the first time in my life, and I voted Labour as I believed wholeheartedly in the goodness of their promises.
In any case, it was a tremendous relief to me then, that there would be another election in five years time. That was a good thing. If one had made a mistake, it could be rectified (I wonder how many people thought so in 1933 in Germany). And, of course, King George would see to it that nothing really bad happened in those 5 years.
And even after the election I kept reading books, the papers, listened to the Radio, and generally kept an eye on things, this, most of all, I owed Peter.
My son and heir would be able to get answers if he ever asked.
I Love You, Mum!
Freedom, Strength and Honor TO YOU
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A Life Worth Living Indeed…
A Life Worth Recording… My Thanks
May more take up this cause so that generations may experience
from their learnings!
Your Empowerer Son
Peter
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