@Lustig Andrei,
We're in a lot more trouble because the smart people don't vote than we are because dumb ones do.
I considered the CIA, my wife spent 30 years with the CIA. I was a lot more"liberal" then than I am now. I'm a fourth generation Republican. This Democracy will only work for our Republic if we vote. No Communist plot will ever shake us into a fascist state, but ignoring our governance will. Not voting allows us to be ignored and taken over without a murmur. At that point we will be like Sir Robert Peel described us: "the public is an ass." And that is how those who are laboring to disenfranchise classes of American feel about most voters. Imagine. the Teapublicans who are anti-tax want to tax segments of our population without representation! The ironically name Tea Party wants segments of our population unrepresented!
Everyone should be allowed to vote. Even if we are a nation of nitwits we should all be out there voting. I'd never keep cj from voting. I realize that 90%of the time my vote gets canceled by a mope just like him here in Marble Falls. But that's the nature of democracy, we aren't cast in stone nor are we all cast from the same molds, but I do believe in the Capitalistic nature of democracy, that we need to market our our values and then vote on them. Participation is a key thing in a democracy, without it democracy devolves into something else.
Like you, I am a progressive center left, whereas cj is from Mars.
