Damn, I love the way you power post! This is hard hitting. I can't wait till our local elections in August - our Mayor's have been collectively boning Kansas City up one end and down the other end. It's like "Yes, I did vote for the property tax increase. I don't mind my rent going up as a result. BUT YOU SAID YOU'D PUT THAT MONEY INTO SCHOOLS AND IT'S NOT GOING THERE!"
Ugh. I don't even HAVE kids and I want those schools to improve. It's important for EVERYONE!
I wrote a version of it the day of the 2008 Presidential election, when one of my co-workers didn't know who Sarah Palin was and someone in the elevator of work's building saw someone else's sticker and said "Oh, yeah, that voting thing is today." I was both angry and completely at peace with the idea that if people don't want to vote, fine! It should be left to those who try to be informed.
The only things I care about in the local election, neither of which affect me personally (a proposition to provide low-income housing for homeless senior veterans and a proposition to extend a previous healthcare measure,basicaly providing a safety net for various groups) are at a solid 2/3s as of this writing.
That is...wow, that's frightening. How can you not know who Palin is? OMG. It's people like that make me despair. Jesus. National elections affect EVERYONE.
And it's good to know I'm not the only one who votes on issues that won't affect them. It's often the only tool I have to help others - my vote. I don't know why other people don't use THEIRS.
None of those people have to vote, and they probably missed their chance, anyway. In truth, I'd rather the uninformed don't.
But.... because they don't even take a blank ballot and drop it in the box, they loose any right to complain about "how bad the gummint is". I don't care that someone votes for any candidate at all, just that they actually go to the polls and cast a ballot. At that, they've participated and are allowed to complain. IMNSHO, of course.
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Ugh. I don't even HAVE kids and I want those schools to improve. It's important for EVERYONE!
YES!
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The only things I care about in the local election, neither of which affect me personally (a proposition to provide low-income housing for homeless senior veterans and a proposition to extend a previous healthcare measure,basicaly providing a safety net for various groups) are at a solid 2/3s as of this writing.
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And it's good to know I'm not the only one who votes on issues that won't affect them. It's often the only tool I have to help others - my vote. I don't know why other people don't use THEIRS.
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But.... because they don't even take a blank ballot and drop it in the box, they loose any right to complain about "how bad the gummint is". I don't care that someone votes for any candidate at all, just that they actually go to the polls and cast a ballot. At that, they've participated and are allowed to complain. IMNSHO, of course.
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