“Freedom is on the march”

"Tens of thousands of people marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to protest the slow pace of democratic reform in this former British colony, but the territory's Beijing-backed leader again rejected demands to set a timetable for achieving universal suffrage." - Washington Post article

I had mixed reactions to yesterday’s pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong. On the one hand, I was delighted to read about people around the world continuing to clamor for something as fundamental to the average American as universal suffrage. But at the same time, it angers me when I compare what's happening in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Hong Kong, to what goes on in our own country where less than half of all registered voters bother to vote in most elections.