Scenario:
Enough people become disinfranchised, there comes a year when ther is a STOP voting movement. Most people don't vote. We have the worst candidates ever. An insane meglomaniac is elected, congress and the house are a mess, as people fight over who, if anyone, won and who is in control, and the next thing we know we have a Kings instead of a president, because we all stopped voting and didn't DO anything about it.
Not voting is such an inaction, it could allow for much, much worse to happen. If you think we need to burn it all to the ground so we can rebuild it better next time, great, fantastic, have fun with that. Because not voting is just a LAZY (and pretty ineffective way) of doing that without really doing anything. IMO, anyway. Of course, voting is also just a way of allowing the same shit, bitching about it, and not really doing anything.
See, the functional working parts of our government are tied to these messy ones. I vote, and will continue to do so because it matters to my community if that school bond measure asses or not, it matters who my Governor, mayor and city council persons are. It's hard to talk people out of voting for the one screwy thing while asking them to keep voting for the rest. And if we stopped voting on everything, it would be an utter disaster for the common person.
Enough people become disinfranchised, there comes a year when ther is a STOP voting movement. Most people don't vote. We have the worst candidates ever. An insane meglomaniac is elected, congress and the house are a mess, as people fight over who, if anyone, won and who is in control, and the next thing we know we have a Kings instead of a president, because we all stopped voting and didn't DO anything about it.
Not voting is such an inaction, it could allow for much, much worse to happen. If you think we need to burn it all to the ground so we can rebuild it better next time, great, fantastic, have fun with that. Because not voting is just a LAZY (and pretty ineffective way) of doing that without really doing anything. IMO, anyway. Of course, voting is also just a way of allowing the same shit, bitching about it, and not really doing anything.
See, the functional working parts of our government are tied to these messy ones. I vote, and will continue to do so because it matters to my community if that school bond measure asses or not, it matters who my Governor, mayor and city council persons are. It's hard to talk people out of voting for the one screwy thing while asking them to keep voting for the rest. And if we stopped voting on everything, it would be an utter disaster for the common person.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
