It’s not about politics. That’s a cop-out. It’s about quality of life in our country. You can’t possibly be saying that you don’t care what sort of society you live in, don’t care about racial persecution, etc. Voting is about incremental change in the way we live and interact with the world. It matters who is in office and who is making the laws of this country and your state. It affects every single one of us, and compassion, if nothing else, should compel you to vote.
What’s the impact?
The ultimate expression of first world privilege. You can afford the affectation of indifference.
(If it wasn’t an affectation, there’d be no need to brag on it!)
“All that’s required, for the triumph of evil, is for good people to do nothing.”
You’ve done your part! Pat yourself on the back!
Oh, wait, you already did that too!
We already have internet usage that is fairly uncensored and mostly free speech in the media.
IT… Aren’t you the same dude that posts hundreds of different polls for people to vote on at a longer-necked message board? Just pretend this is another one of those but with higher stakes.
If you believe all of this, you are deluded. BTW, all the Gold Star Family members I know are voting Trump. And many African American people are, too. Muslims too.
Idle Thoughts is among the many many many people who don’t vote. He’s telling us why, so kudos to him for taking a public stance and defending it. Maybe a good approach is to learn why people don’t vote and, if we don’t like that they don’t vote, strive to change that.
A vast majority of us are close-minded about certain things, including voting. We have to be, at some point, because it makes life simpler for us. We don’t have to rethink everything, every time.
FTR, I voted. Always have, always will. And I did think especially long and hard on this one.
Looking at the last several “major” elections, this is what you see:
2000 54.2% voter turnout Bush
2004 60.4% voter turnout
2008 62.3% voter turnout Obama
2012 57.5% voter turnout
There you go. When millions and millions of people don’t do something, it matters. You can see huge percentage point swings in just the last 4 cycles.
Look at that 2000 number. Who’d we get? Bush. G-Dub. A lot of dice started tumbling from that one. If apathy ever makes you want to stay home, think of 2000 folks.
When people say “I don’t care about ‘politics’” I wonder what “politics” means to them.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Recent poll of AA’s in Pennsylvania had Trump sitting at about 1%. One. One percent.
This election cycle you’ve swung on Trump’s nut sack while most of us just laughed at you. That laughter will get real loud around midnight tonight. You’ll be here, right?
Yup.
But we almost lost it. But since current events don’t interest you either, I guess that’s news to you too.
Why is this thread in the pit? Are you pittng yourself?
That’s a few thousand, right? Seems like a lot!
Technically speaking, if you’re for those you should vote as well. Otherwise, you might get a polite, fair and compassionate government for the next 4 years, and you don’t want that.
From what I remember, SOPA was a joke and virtually everyone was heavily against it.
I’m not sure what this shows, though. Turnout jumped six percentage points in 2004, and Bush was reelected. It jumped another two points, and Obama took office. It dropped five points, and Obama was reelected. Turnout doesn’t seem to tie to any consistent result.
I’m back from voting.
I was 5th in line. Waited maybe 3 - 4 minutes.
Takes longer to go through the drive-through at McDonald’s.
I took great pleasure in voting AGAINST trump. My revenge against the Orange groper for a year of seeing his face all over the friggen media.
You’re memory is quite faulty then. SOPA/PIPA had plenty of supporters in Congress. It was killed because of a concerted effort of voters (and popular websites), not because “everyone” was heavily against it.
If you aren’t interested, it’s better that you don’t vote.