(July 11, 2015 at 8:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Bernie excites me more than Hillary but never forget what Plato said:
Quote:One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
Fail to vote and you simply make it easier for one of the republicunt assholes in the klown kar.
Yeah, voter turnout is they key. The United States does have the worst voter turn out. Hopefully it will be better in 2016. Will have to wait and see.
Quote:U.S. turnout in 2012 was 53.6%, based on 129.1 million votes cast for president and an estimated voting-age population of just under 241 million people. Among OECD countries, the highest turnout rates were in Belgium (87.2%), Turkey (86.4%) and Sweden (82.6%). Switzerland consistently has the lowest turnout, with just 40% of the voting-age population casting ballots in the 2011 federal legislative elections, the most recent.Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...countries/
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."--Thomas Jefferson
