Thursday, April 25, 2013

Voting

     I have only voted twice in my life, and both times it was only to vote against George W. Bush.  I think we all know how that all turned out now don't we?  I haven't voted again since because I just don't believe that we are really in charge of the outcome at all.  I think voting is just a way of making us feel like we are deciding something that is really out of our hands all together.  I know that that is a cynical view but, I feel there isn't enough cynicism today which has allowed a corrupt government system to run wild.
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6 comments:

  1. Tony LaplumeApril 25, 2013 at 1:46 PM

    If you have a vote for the presidency, use it. Plenty of people throw it away by doing things like not voting and by actually voting, but for candidates who have absolutely no chance of winning (third party candidates losing votes to fourth and fifth and sixth and...candidates, for instance). It's the cynicism that screws everything up. You can be cynical all you want, but if you allow what you're cynical about to benefit from your cynicism...then it's you that's losing in this equation.

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  2. Nancy Jardine AuthorApril 25, 2013 at 2:35 PM

    As a much older Scot than you are, I've been able to vote since I was 18 years old. I've always held to the belief that if I don't vote for whatever party I choose then I have no right to slag off any political party who wins. It makes ME feel better to make comments (good or bad) knowing that I've voted as my conviction decrees. Nancy at Welcome to she said, he said

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  3. TrishaApril 27, 2013 at 1:40 AM

    Voting is compulsory in Australia, but some people still don't vote - my dad included. ;) They usually get fines, but my dad no longer does - he has never once voted since coming to Australia.

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  4. TrishaApril 27, 2013 at 1:41 AM

    Oh, and I should add that I used to vote strategically, but it never worked out - the people I hated, generally equivalents of Georgey Bush, always still got into power - so now I vote for who I want to, without a care about what good my vote will actually do. I guess you could call it a conscience vote. :)

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