I've been checking out the blog-intelligentsia lately and there seems to be a consensus among them that it is cool to not vote Tuesday. These folks don't think of themselves as a peer group and hold themselves to be above the average blogjoe, but they exhibit the same behaviors as any other bunch of teenagers.
It is obvious that the most of 'em are highly intelligent folk with reasoning capacity out the wazoo, but the younglings are still striving to be fashionable. One highly respected fella puts this crap out and the rest stumble over themselves to agree.
'oooo! That sounds shocking and witty. I should think that, too.'
And so the bloggers fan out to spread this crap.
Never once have I seen the operative concept applied.
DUTY
It's your damn job to vote. Go do it. Get off your lazy ass, figure out which is the best, or the lesser of two evils, whichever barometer you decide matters and pull the lever.
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Horse shit. Government will continue along the same path regardless of the winner of this election.
The USSR held elections. Was it the duty of those folks to go vote too?
As long as voting means voluntarily participating in my own snookerin' then I ain't votin'.
As for this group supporting not voting.. As far as I know it consists of me and Fred Reed. I know not of any others jumpin' on the bandwagon.
By the way... Welcome to the Blogosphere!!!
The left has gained so much ground in this country by embracing incrementalism. The only way we get back what is lost is to do the same, short of shootin' 'em and starting over. GW obviously understands this. It's called political reality.
Quitcher whinin' about the lack of ideological purity of conservative politicians, and look down the road a piece.
Horseshit.
You can't shrink a government by votes. It don't happen. History proves that government shrinks by force of arms, or in rare cases, the threat.
You can vote to keep government the same size. You can vote to grow it slow, or you can vote to grow it fast.
You can't vote to shrink it though.
Sure ya' can. Just not this time federally.
Happens at the state level all the time.
The best thing you can hope for voting is to stave off as much tyranny as possible, so that when people have finally had enough, it's not too late.
I'm with FA here. You want to shrink the government, you do it with guns dammit.
Doesn't change a thing. It's your duty. Go vote. Buy guns and ammmo. Prepare.
Lord knows it is poor strategy to prepare and move the timeline to one's advantage.
Well you obviously don't have to register to post a comment. So I'll put in my two cents. Penny number one : You have to decide if you wasnt to be buggered from the front or the rear. I think your party line would be obvious in that respect. Penny number Two: If you choose not to vote you are simply empowering the leeches to further suckle your bank account.
Them leeches done empowered themselves to my Bank Account, and it's the one's with the R's next to thier names that invented the most recent lockpick.
You can't fix a car while it's running y'all.
Ol' Claire was right... I'm just wonderin' if it's time yet...
And all this time I thought that the Anarchy is cool trend went out with big hair in the 80's.
It's real simple. Bush wins - ya' get at least four more years to prepare and educate a few idiots. Given constructionist appointments to the courts it's more.
The 'D' wins ya' lose more money in the interim.
You sound like one of the folks gonna send their Bush tax rebate check back.
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i'm not voting because i don't want to bother with an absentee ballot. hassle.
i'm not voting because i don't want to bother with an absentee ballot. hassle.
joy
You have to wonder how efficient the Columbian postal service is gonna be with an American ballot.
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I would have to wonder if I TRUSTED the columbian postal service with an American Ballot.
Welcome Bane,
You'll have to ask Nathan what a 'swirly' is. I never actually intended on drowning him, but I'm not sure he knows that.....
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I'll check out the haloscan account.
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The name's Nate. Let's keep this civil.
Vote Bush--we lose. Vote kerry--we lose big time.
Sounds good to me.
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