bleh

[rone]

Didn't vote. Don't care about the results. Don't wanna know. I should be disgusted with myself, but i'm not.

Comments

[erikred.livejournal.com]

I reserve the right to kick you in the head if you complain about Schwa-chan winning his ridiculous Robbing Tomorrow to Pay Today campaign.

For your own damn good, of course.

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

I get disgusted at the people who say you HAVE to vote, or that if you don't vote, you can't complain. what if your complaint is that the system is wrong? nope, sorry, you must support the system by voting, then complain until someone points out you're a hypocrite.

also bad are the people (usually the same people) who say you can't vote your conscience, you have to vote for the guy most likely to win. so, let's get this straight: you aren't allowed to refuse to vote, and you aren't allowed to vote for who you want.

I'm glad we have the freedom to vote.

[bryant]

Good for you. Voting's optional.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

Disgruntled liberals withdraw from politics. Disgruntled conservatives get more involved.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

The guy I wanted to vote for dropped out before the primary, so there wasn't much point. I went anyway because I think I may be the most active voter in my precinct and I think there is an absurd charm to this. I don't know if anyone else showed up all day. And I wouldn't have blamed anyone for not showing up; in this sort of situation there's not even a much of a theoretical statistical advantage to voting.

Anyway, I voted for John Edwards sort of by default, and he's dropped out now anyway. Maybe I should have registered a protest vote for Clark or Dean instead. It hardly mattered.

Rest assured, I'll vote in the general election, undoubtedly for Kerry; the system may have its problems, but I'm basically thinking of the current campaign in stark apocalyptic terms. Bush's people, as far as I can tell, are attempting to break the United States, whether they realize it or not. There's a kind of worse-is-better thinking that invites this in order to hasten the revolution, but I don't believe that, because the revolution would probably kill several million people, myself included, and it's questionable that it would lead to anything better, there having been few angelic governments in human history. A gridlocked government with a somewhat sleazy Democratic executive is far preferable.

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

I won't argue with you about not voting, as long as you promise that you'll vote in the general election this fall.

[mdyesowitch.livejournal.com]

I vote in every election because I'm in love with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Bill Galvin, and I crave his approval.
Also, I like John Kerry. Even his faults seem virtuous to me? Can't make up his mind? Good. He won't try to push through pointless legislation because he can't commit to it. Married to a republican? Good. Political dead-lock in the White House makes me horny like the toad.
Anyway, not to digress, but I think you're still allowed to complain regardless of whether you voted in the primaries or not, because the delegates don't really need us to tell them who to vote for.

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

Me neither. Didn't even realize it was a day on which I was supposed to vote.