Reply #35: well, actually, those who don't vote, don't count. [View All]

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By the very choice they make not to vote, they are in fact, making sure that they don't "count."

People who stay home during the elections in some sort of misguided "protest" don't realize that their protest means nothing, becuase there is no measurable way to know who or what they are protesting against, or why. In fact, it's impossible to know anything, because they don't vote!

They might be angry that the country is too conservative, and that both parties cater to corporations. They might be ultra-right and feel that everyone is too liberal. We'll never know, because they don't vote! Not for a third party, not for a write-in, nothing. There isn't some magical census that asks all non-voters, registered or unregistered, "why do you feel disenfranchised?"

No power comes with a mysterious block of people who might feel disenfranchised, might feel disillusioned, or - more likely, are just lazy and looking for an excuse not to become involved in "the system," as they see it, oh, that evil system.

I'm just thinking out loud here, this is not a rant against you, it is simply a frustration that has been building in me with all of the people who don't vote, and some of them who seem to be proud of it, including a girl I met over the weekend. She is smart, sassy, and liberal minded, and she doesn't vote! I told her, well, with all the rednecks out voting in her place, we can sure thank her for her patriotism! ;)

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