Journal eno2001's Journal: VOTING DAY: Yet Another Waste of Time 13
There is only one reason I vote. So that I can complain like crazy about how everything is going to hell in a handbasket and numbnuts can't tell me I don't have a right to complain because I didn't vote. That's it. There is no other reason. I have no faith that my vote counts thanks to the Electoral College. And now that we only have the option of absentee voting and Diebold machines, well that pretty much makes having my vote accurately counted a near impossibility. I also know that since I refuse to compromise my core beliefs and they are somewhat out of sync with the average person due to be well thought out, that the likelihood of something or someone that I vote FOR passing is a near impossiblility. However, I MUST have a reason to vote and the one stated above is the only one I can think of. I skipped the 1988 election (when I turned 18) and when I was complaining about the Gulf War someone told me I didn't have a right to complain since I didn't vote. That will NEVER happen again. But that doesn't mean I have any faith in the system at all. I see it as a giant waste of time. Not only that, but I live in the one liberal pocket of sanity in the state of Ohio. We USED to be able to swing votes, but thanks to redistricting caused by the 2000 census, we no longer have that power. So now Ohio appears to be a Red State because the knobs in Columbus gamed the system to their favor. This puts me in a very unenviable position. I vote for all the right things. Most of the people I know here vote for all the right things. Hell... Kerry (that suckass son of a bitch) WON in the area I live in with 80% in his favor in 2004. But the rest of the state with it's backwards idiot rednecks who trust in "Jayzuz" and think that gay marriage is a bad thing have ruined my city's chances for effecting a vote. It's all so hopeless.
You are in a state (Score:2)
We would shut Chavez down if he tried something like this!
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Liberals... Conservatives with different masks? (Score:2)
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I put myself through college, and I had troubles and I didn't make excuses, well, at first, when I was a brainwashed socialist, I did, and then I woke up and realized, when you expect others to care for you, you have NO right to complain about any wrongs, because you're their slave, their property... if they provide for you, they can take from you rightfully, you are nothing but livestock, being fed, and later sacrificed.
Fighting (for survival, profit, gain, understanding,
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I didn't say anyone other than EVERYONE is (Score:2)
The only difference is if you're lazy minded (let someone else handle it) or aggressive (take charge, solve problems that arise, freespirit, trailblazer, hunter/gatherer, shaman, etc)
The other mentallity are the lazy manipulatives, aka the politicians, most of them couldn't survive if they had to COMPETE, hence I wish it was a competitive hunter gatherer / builder livestyle, because the p
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Are you sure it isn't the mothers that degenerated (Score:2)
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