Jesus, don’t you people ever learn? I can’t believe anyone follows politics these days, or expresses any interest in any of the candidates. Why bother? They’re not going to do anything close to resembling what they told you they would do.
Why be a sap?
Did you support William Jefferson Clinton? Remember when he was elected and TIME magazine depicted him as a knight riding in on a white horse on it’s cover? Can you honestly say your expectations were met? If you can, then you are a deluded ass.
Did you support Shrub? Congratualtions, you helped elect a president who got us into a useless war in the name of his evangelical bullshit, and who will go down in history as the worst foreign policy president ever.
Was that on the ballot?
You NEVER know what you are going to get when you support any of those assholes. So, why get involved? You think it will be different this time?
It won’t. You’ll support some asshole, he may get elected, and if he does, he will pull some shit you didn’t expect.
Well, it’s true that all the mainstream, major party candidates are bought and paid for by the same interests. Our entire system is in a shambles because actual human beings do not run anything important anymore.
But people who don’t vote are bigger morons. Except you. You go right ahead with your plan. Meanwhile, I’ll be over here, voting. Because even if whichever Democrat winds up getting the nomination disappoints me, they won’t disappoint me as badly as whichever Republican will.
Will I get what I want? Probably not. But I bet I can try to get something that’s at least better than the alternative.
I would have to say that people who follow politics and don’t vote are just masochists.
I’m not sure what the OP’s problem is. He(?) sounds like somebody who was just stood up by their prom date. What’s the matter Zambini57, you’ve voted for the Dems and the Pubs and you still have to work for a living?
Sure, democracy is a deeply flawed process. After all, it gives people like you the same number of votes as people like me.
Democracy only requires two things to work. One is that you have a choice. Because both candidates will then have to try to be a marginally better choice than their opponent and once they start competing on that there’s nowhere to go but up.
The other is that you have to make a choice. Because if you don’t care why should the candidates? If you accept their mediocrity, you deserve it. Politics has been ruined by people like you who think it’s not worth the effort.
There are people who have died fighting for the chance to vote and you’re having it handed to you. So get out there and do your job. Pick whichever candidate is better or whichever one is the lesser evil and vote for them.
So what? We should passively accept the shit that will get elected if we don’t vote? Our options for change in this country are 1. vote the bums out or 2. violent revolution. We’re not at 2 yet.
Less than half the US citizens who are eligible to vote actually do so. What happens? For the last 2 presidential elections, the citizenry has elected a moron. All he had to do was keep mentioning God, visit Bob Jones University, appoint lawyers from Pat Robertson’s Law School, state that he believes that the “jury is still out” on evolution, etc. This must work because it appeals to the people who actually do vote. That in itself is enough to convince me that a Hell of a lot more people should vote.
Okay, now let’s suppose only 5% of US citizens voted, or .5% or even .05%, what kind of delusional moron would we get for President? A Neo-Nazi who believes in a flat earth and who wears a tin foil hat? Something to think about huh?
Have you never actually experienced the pleasure of voting?
In case you haven’t, after the voter cast his/her vote the most common reaction of the voter is to feel satisfied because the voter usually says to him/her self: -
I have exercised my political power over politicians.
I will soon have an expert politician to represent me in an assembly of the people.
My expert politician, who now represents the people, will develop expertly devised laws on my behalf and that of my fellow citizens.
I am confident that any laws passed by the lawmakers will not conflict with the will of the people because they have been formulated by representatives of the people.
That’s just it. You don’t know who will pull the least amount of shit. People voted for Bush because they wanted someone they thought was “Mr. Morality” after the shit Clinton pulled. And look what they got, and look what he’s done.
Number 4 contradicts the rest of them, unless you’re in lockstep with “the people”.
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Also, you’re making the naive assumption that these wonderful benevolent angelic lawmakers who do all that they do on behalf of others and seek nothing for themselves will keep their fucking promises.
Number 1 has a transient existence, like the last snows of Spring.
Numbers 2, 3 and 4 are based on faith alone. A faith based belief can safely ignore reality in the political context and any apparent contradictions can have no power or influence over such beliefs.
