Gaining a little primary appreciation

Last Monday night at 12:01 a.m., when the primary voting began, I found the spirit of America in a tiny room at the Balsams Resort in Dixville Notch, NH. What I witnessed there was more than the casting of the first presidential vote this election cycle - it was the marvel of our government at work. It is often too easy for Americans to ignore or criticize our government, forgetting just how lucky we are to have such a strong establishment. The fact that we "can" criticize our government places it high above countless other governments, where such a notion is not even entertained in dreams. Political enthusiast or not, there is truly something special about our political process; perhaps it just takes something like the purity of the New Hampshire primary to remind us.