(September 15, 2017 at 12:34 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(September 15, 2017 at 10:27 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Wait. Your solution to "fixing" our democracy is to stop voting?Part of it, yeah.
If you, and I, and everyone else stops voting... then we become a democracy in name only.
I would rather vote for imperfect candidates than let the likes of Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, Bestie DeVos, Ted Cruz and Fuckface Trump run rampant through our government passing whatever laws they want because they can say they were "elected fairly" by a majority of voters - even if the turn out of that vote was 5% of the country.
Quote:I'm not discussing a complete disengagement from civics or politics..I;m discussing a vote of no confidence by refusing to cast a vote between unsuitable candidates.
We have suitable candidates to vote for. Hillary was a suitable candidate. You don't have to love every tiny little thing about her - I didn't - but she was suitable. Especially in light of the fact that she was running against a nightmare human.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
