What is the point of political angst if you don't vote? How do you think the US got where it is today - "conservatives" VOTED VERY TIME.
You have a the government you deserve.
https://www.refinery29.com/amp/2018/08/206687/why-young-women-dont-vote-midterm-election-2018
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"You have a the government you deserve." I understand what you mean but I think it's worse than that - I think we get the government we want. -- A young person not voting today is demonstrating profound ingnorance.
ReplyDeleteEvery person who refuses to vote deserves whatever they end up with - and should take it without a single complaint. When we face 40% voter turnouts, and people scream they didn't want this government, and they don't speak for the majority ... what the hell was stopping you? 60% of voters who stayed silent sure could change the outcomes. But they don't. So the fanaticals and zealots and radicals make the choices - because THEY at least seem to understand that voting is important!
ReplyDeleteAll the soldiers who died in the world wars must really think a lot of the folks who don't honour their sacrifices ... so we COULD have a chance to vote. It really grates my cheese when people don't vote. You may have already figured that out. I haven't missed a vote since I turned 18 - from municipal to federal. And I have no party alliance or affiliation. I've voted for all of them at one point or another. I go for the candidate I want representing me based on how they present themselves ... not blind partisan dogma.
This is Moronia, aka the United States, with a 49 percent voter turnout in presidential elections and long lines to get Richard Petty’s autograph. I’m leaving this degenerating country asap.
ReplyDeleteChris Pollard My dad just gets furious when he talks about how allies are treated and he's not even in the US.
ReplyDeleteUPDATE: A Democratic Party e-mail tonight says voter turnout in Democratic primaries is 80 PERCENT ahead of the dismal 2014 midterms. That portends a Blue Wave this fall, which is absolutely needed to stem fascism's tide. So do I take back my angry, glum post of 4 hrs ago? Well, this news has me feeling so much better, but the United States still is so non-participatory, so sugar coated, so personality-over-policy, so uninformed. I'm still out as soon as I can leave. We just can't rally people to vote for a positive change. It takes a horrible crisis to get us to vote against the intolerably negative. Certainly, it is better we do that than stay home, but we are not going to embrace the idea of social policy. It's always cliches and false culture wars. That failure is our death as a developed and free country.
ReplyDeleteBrian Arbenz I'm not sure I'd take it back based on primaries. The people who turn out to vote in primaries are generally engaged in the process. The general election includes all those average, apathetic masses who probably don't even know what the primaries are for.
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