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I appreciate it, but no need for the compliments. The world is forever indebted to you and those like you for your contribution. You voters are doing phenomenal with exceptional candidates - maybe we can get Bill Cosby and Aaron Hernandez on the tickets for 2020 (wouldn't be a big downgrade anyways). Keep up the good work.
It's sad that you think it's the ones who are actually participating in the system that are the problem. Perhaps we should consider your plan of total apathy. Maybe you could form a Purge party.
#####ing about it - talking about politics and arguing - is participating.
Don't ##### about it if you aren't willing to take the few minutes to participate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efKguI0NFek
Don't ##### about it if you aren't willing to take the few minutes to participate.
Yea, everyone should stay home. It would send an actual message. Participating in a broken system doesn't fix it, it perpetuates it. And I'll ##### all I want about it. Abstaining from voting doesn't revoke my constitutional rights.
I'm so sick of you Joe the Potato Farmer supporters using every possible opportunity to stump for that loser. Larry the Guy Who Got Laid Off By H&R Block 2016!
There are more than 2 candidates typically on the ballot. I'll vote 3rd party instead of not voting at all.
I assume one problem is that even though the candidates are different on issues, it doesn't necessarily mean one is more closely aligned to your overall views than the other. You could feel you disagree with one on some issues, equally disagree with the other on other issues, and agree or disagree with both of them on the rest. So then it feels like you're given the choice between a kick in the left nut or a kick in the right nut.
Trump has got the most votes of any R candidate in a primary ever (actually 2nd most after double checking) and Hillary is over 12 million and more than 3 million more than Bernie.
I'll probably vote, but if I don't, it will be because I made a conscious, reasoned decision not to dignify this election with my vote. I will absolutely continue #####ing about it. I see principled non-voting as a form of participation, like walking out of an event in protest.
Don't ##### about it if you aren't willing to take the few minutes to participate.
I suppose I will vote but it won't be for trump or Hillary.
That's great, it really is.
At the end of the day, while the president is certainly a very important person as far as international relations goes, I feel like the local city council or even the state dental board has more impact on my day to day life
I don't think that staying home to send some kind of message, even en masse, is doing what you're hoping it does. Low voter turnout has been going on for how long now? The government doesn't think you're sending them a message, they just think you're too lazy to vote. If you want to send a message, vote for someone else. All that not voting does for them is make them think you don't care.
So if you weigh all the issues it comes down to an exact tie? I doubt that.
Even if you think of them the exact same the choice is really about which party you want deciding who the Supreme Court Justices will be for the next 30 years. And on that issue I believe anyone can claim they are the exact same.
Democrats got Obama in 2008 and nearly got Bernie. Personally, I think Bernie's loss was his fault - very tough to convince middle of the road Democrats to vote for him when he refuses to tone down his rhetoric. Hopefully the next Progressive candidate is a little more like Obama than Bernie.
