(January 17, 2016 at 1:11 am)Minimalist Wrote: Read the post above. Maybe you'll learn something.
I doubt it.
OK, then!
I was there too, when Nixon stepped down. Before Nixon the voters were vastly more ignorant, a herd of sheep who could be swayed by Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you..." After this huge embarrassment, they became too intelligent for system which unfortunately remains today. This is why so many stopped voting. You would call that irresponsible, but as one who has sat out a few elections myself there is not wanting to be responsible for okaying any of the ass clowns and thugs who are on the ballot. So how does this smart-ass generation try and fix it, 42 years later? You go after the voter, bashing any who won't vote as "lazy", when the right to reject all of the fuckers and demand better candidates has been ignored. Yes, that was actually part of the national conversation a couple of decades ago, and people with your sort of attitude ignored it. You are now teaching Joe Sixpack Voter that his vote counts, but that what he wants doesn't matter, and that is just utterly shameful!
I'll level with you: I've not decided whether I will vote for Bernie, even if he does surge ahead of Hillary when the primaries come to my State, and for the same concerns which you voice. But if I choose to compromise my vote for one who can win, this will be my personal decision, and I won't be proud of it. When you teach young voters to vote anything other than their own interests or their conscience, you teach them to give up on both prematurely, which is why this should not be taught.
If you want Candidate A in office, and you don't vote for Candidate A, then there will be no record that you wanted Candidate A. If the majority in your State want A, but vote to elect B, then the thugs and clowns under the dome will continue to behave as if you wanted B.
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