Election Day: A Thought Experiment of Marital Proportions

On this election day, I find myself reading the headlines and finding myself taken aback by all the politicians admitting infidelities to their public and their families in just this past year. This got me thinking: what if we had to re-elect our spouse?

Think about it. What if our culture built monogamy upon a one-year term for the office of spouse? Would we be as likely to cheat knowing that our spouse could easily, and without judgment from the outside world, toss us to the curb? Wouldn't we be more likely to pay greater attention to our spouses, treating them as we did when we dated, if they could simply move on to the next candidate? If every year we had to demonstrate to our spouse that we were worthwhile to keep in office for another year?

Now, I understand that in today's statistics of divorce, this concept is growing increasingly less novel. However, it's simply a suggestion for the married ranks to simply consider the question: Do I take my spouse for granted?

So, as an exercise, ask your spouse if they would re-elect you; just don't be surprised to get a politician's answer.