Balloting
No, it isn't your imagination. The Labor Day post didn't appear on Labor Day due to some technical difficulties on my end. But it is published now, for what it is worth.
Today is an election day. If you have the inclination and haven't done so already,m go and vote. More importantly, though, if you have chosen not to vote, why not? I'm not judgmental on the topic at all, but I am very curious as to why someone would opt out of the system.
Did you vote, or did you skip it?
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Voted on Saturday. My parents were always pretty rabid about the whole thing, giving us the "we didn't flee a communist country and turn our lives upside down so you would waste the gift of voting" speech, or some variation of that.
i voted today. that's what my sticker said.
I got the sticker, too. I gave it to a parking meter.
I vote regularly, but more out of stubborness than any democratic idealism. Sometimes it feels like voting in an election is nothing more than a participatory hallucination concocted to keep us quiet while the real decisions are made elsewhere.
I wouldn't expect anything else from NFK.
I voted as I always do. I don't judge people who don't vote either. I think people who are uninformed and vote do themselves and the rest of us a disservice. That's why I like the traditional voting at the precinct on election day. It should kind of be a pain in the ass to do, that way only people who take it seriously would do it. I'll never be in favor of Internet voting even it there was a 100% guarantee that it would be legit. If you want to vote online, that's what American Idol is for.
I wouldn't expect anything else from NFK.
I voted as I always do. I don't judge people who don't vote either. I think people who are uninformed and vote do themselves and the rest of us a disservice. --wisdom by Conductor (of inanity)
You trying to pick a fight, Conductor? Because seriously, go take your flamebait elsewhere, there's plenty of outlets for that crap in the local blogosphere. I had a criteria by which to vote for every item on the ballot, down to all the judges. Curb your supercilious condescension for the hoi polloi, your conservative exile politics don't make you more "informed" than other voters who don't toe the line.
Welcome to Hidden City, Conductor.
I tend toward more than a little cynicism about the process, myself, but I still participate out if a sense of civic duty. My beef is primarily with the de facto rule of a two-party system which -- when combined with the vast cash supply needed to compete for the media time required to achieve a modicum of name recognition -- virtually eliminates any electoral response to the tyranny of the majority.
Over the last fifty years American politics has ceased to have any real substance in terms of issues-based discussion, and has instead become a gigantic UF-FSU game. Few supporters of either side really understand the policies espoused by their team -- they just paint their faces blue or red and call the other side names.
Informed voters are a rare commodity, but not really valued by either side. Easily manipulated electoral masses are the grist for our two-party mill.
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