The election is coming!

Eva has to make a "persuasive poster" encouraging her friends to vote for one of two Kevin Henkes characters, thus teaching children that elections aren't about issues but are simply popularity contests where you can divide neatly into two "teams". She's not allowed to enter a write-in third party character, because they only have two choices.

Pretty much the truth, really.

You know, even more than spelling reform (and for the last time, spelling reform would NOT need to fix everything, we could get by quite well just fixing the most glaring problems with our orthography!), we really really need some sort of voting reform system. There are so many different types of voting out there, and they don't all of them make it impossible to have more than two viable options at any given time.

But I think we're even less likely to get that.