Why even bother voting?

[CatWoman]

Is that what they want?

[chimpymustgo]

1. Mission Accomplished.

nt

[d_b]

2. take away our hopes

[sweetladybug]

4. They want to beat us down and to have no hope. It's like being in an

abusive relationship. THEY WANT TO CONTROL EVERYTHING INCLUDING OUR MINDS, HEARTS AND SOULS. I believe in God and I think he'll make them pay for their dirty deeds.

[ladjf]

3. That is definitely what will happen if enough people decide that

the elections are rigged with no hope for change. The heartbeat of Democracy is barely detectable on the monitor. It will be declared officially dead when only Republicans votes.

[President Jesus]

5. don't you all see? this is what will happen to THEM.

All of those Christers have some pretty high expectations...expectations the GOP simply has no real interest in seeing through.

We simply need to remind them of how the GOP has failed them, and they won't show up at the polls next time...OR they will do something stupid and back a radical. (gee, a familiar theme sounding on DU).

[MuseRider]

6. I am having

a very bad day. I think this is surely what will happen. I would certainly rather not vote than think my vote was going to someone I detest. Perhaps it is just my mood today. I am thinking that if they are successful in getting rid of the fillibusters that our Democratic Representative should all just walk out, go home and tell the people that they are no longer represented and see what happens. Why stay and just sit there without imput? Why not just stir the pot in a major way and see if anyone really cares? The media will not report how bad it is so something major needs to happen. I sure hope I feel better tomorrow.

[Verve]

7. I think this is the question the Democratic leaders need to look at.

They need to fight voting fraud or they will lose their strongest supporters, us. Not to mention, if there is proof of systemic fraud, Democrats will not win many elections. (Now that we know what the Repugs may have been up to, is it so strange that they are the majority in EVERY elected office?)

[DemBones DemBones]

8. My thoughts exactly: why bother? AND

Is that what they want?

We're up against some very unAmerican, undemocratic people with far too much power and influence. When GOP politicians have the gall to make public statements about needing to suppress the vote on the reservations in North Dakota and in Detroit, and show no shame when caught orchestrating voter purges in Florida, not even caring that people know they support disenfranchising Native American and black voters, what else can we conclude? They not only game the system, they're smug about their dirty deeds.

This isn't the country I thought I was born and raised in.

[AP]

9. Demographically speaking, people most likely to vote are Republicans and

the people least likely to vote are Demcorats. So, if you discourage people to vote generally, the first people you convince not to vote will be, by a 2:1 ratio, Democrats. The last people you'll convince not to vote will be Republican by roughly a 5:4 margin.

Discouraging voting helps Repubicans.

[buycottJoe]

10. The rich vote.

The rich have a good voting record. The poor and middle class do not have such a good voting record. Voting takes just an hour or so of your time (more if you do careful research) so keep the habit of voting. It wears off onto other people around you too.

Voting also gives me more complaining rights.

[DemBones DemBones]

11. You're correct, of course, and welcome to

DU! :hi:


Voting can take more than an hour, and many people would be halped if employers gave them time off to go to the polls.

But the rich vote to protect their interests, and the rest of us need to. We also need to insist that our votes count and are counted.

[Reality Not Tin Foil]

12. Yeah, why? Afterall...The Boogie Man NEVER dies!

Sigh...

[The Flaming Red Head]

13. You could just throw your vote directly in the trash/shredder

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2704906

[deutsey]

14. Voting is the last and least important thing about citizenship

John Dewey apparently said that.

More important to democracy, as Thomas Geoghegan writes in The Nation, is to live a certain way of life that creates the kind of life we're voting for.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

15. If you go down, then you go down fighting

now you go to the corner for a timeout.