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Wed 25 May, 2011 04:23 pm
At the risk of being branded a nut, I nevertheless plan to cease voting, as of last week. I feel I can no longer trust our government to do what is right for its people, regardless of the party in control. Therefore, until I see a mass movement toward gaining control of the problem, constructively and positively, which is the only remedy I can envision at this point, I will no longer get politically involved.
@edgarblythe,
Now my votes actually matter!
Thanks Edgar.
@Finn dAbuzz,
Oops...I take that back.
Yours is a sane and principled decision which you should not reconsider because of my shameful glee.
I don't give a **** what you do with your vote, finn.
@edgarblythe,
may I offer him a suggestion ed...?
Not to be lecturing here but the reason the government isn't serving the people is because so many people aren't voting. Why make the problem worse?
@panzade,
Yes.
And do you (edgar) truly think it's all equivalent? Sarah Palin would be exactly as good or bad of a president as Barack Obama?
This stuff seriously, seriously pissed me off in 2000 and 2004, and it turned out that I had a good reason to be pissed off.
I rarely vote for a candidate, usually I just vote against the other guy. However, even that I believe is important. Brave people died for me to have the right to cast a ballot. If it was not for the women's suffrage movement I would still have to be represented by my husband's, brother's or father's vote. I am too grateful to those who fought these battles to now throw their efforts away because government sometimes pisses me off. Without a vote you are without a voice.
@edgarblythe,
What was the event that triggered this decision?
I understand, EdgarB, but I agree with Soz and Ceili re the importance of voting. I always will, until the day I can't.
@edgarblythe,
I know exactly how you feel edgar. I was among those who turned 18 the same year that 18 year olds were given the vote. I cast my very first vote in the presidential election that year (1972)...for Richard Nixon.
You know what happened next. I refused to vote again for ten years after that.
Unfortunately, those were the Reagan years.
(Even worse!)
I really wish I had voted after all.
@edgarblythe,
By choosing not to vote, you are in fact still contributing to the election of a government. There's no way out of the game. As Finn alluded it's imperative thoughtful people cast their votes, otherwise only fanatics and barrow pushers make these choice on our behalf.
Preachy, much?
@hingehead,
Edgar is looking for his ideological friends to pull him back from the brink, and vote damn it, vote!
I would appreciate it if you and others would just let him wallow and not encourage him to cancel my vote.
@edgarblythe,
I don't think you're a nut, but I think you may find that not voting just doesn't 'feel' right. Luckily, there's an easy remedy and you can right the feeling at a future election.
@edgarblythe,
I have felt that way for years. In addition, I don't think it matters who's in... when they do some egregious wrong, soon enough there will be another party in who will reverse those actions and institute their own egregious wrongs. I used to vote religiously then I got disgusted with them all and stopped... now I vote when I think it matters, ie. our last Cdn election.
@Mame,
That's good advice...if you must vote Edgar, keep it to a minimum.
@Finn dAbuzz,
One of my nieces and a nephew just came of age to vote. Their two votes will squash your vote and put our team ahead by one.
@Green Witch,
Sorry, but I have enslaved 100 new voters (by virtue of cash payments) and they will bury you and yours.
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