NationStates Jolt Archive

Americans should vote because they have the right to vote unlike many countries out, terrorists hate that we have the right to vote, and if you dont like either of the candidates your still likely to agree with something one of them has to say over the other, so voting is the right thing to do.

I suppose....

I think, if you are stupid enough not to vote, you shouldnt vote at all.

Well, if you're a dumbass you shouldn't vote, so I guess that makes it a good thing that they don't vote and are... whatever.

Down with putting innocent apostrophes out of work!
Down with making 'your' do double duty as both a possessive and a contraction for 'you are!'

Terrorists use both of these tactics overseas in order to keep people from thinking and voting as they should.

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Americans should vote because they have the right to vote unlike many countries out, terrorists hate that we have the right to vote, and if you dont like either of the candidates your still likely to agree with something one of them has to say over the other, so voting is the right thing to do.
Democracy is not the right to vote for whatever self-serving ego-centric millionaire two-faced politicians; it's the right to vote on the issues. Or this is what I believe democracy should be.

Why not make registration automatic, then? A lot of people are just lazy.

I don't necessarily think that people who don't vote are "stupid".....and I definitley don't think choosing not to vote is a bad thing. If I don't support the issues that a candidate is representing, it is my right to disagree and not vote for him/her. What gets me angry is people who don't vote, yet they bitch about the outcome of an election. Not voting is fine, but you better keep yer mouth shut. Know what I mean?
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Americans should vote because they have the right to vote unlike many countries out, terrorists hate that we have the right to vote, and if you dont like either of the candidates your still likely to agree with something one of them has to say over the other, so voting is the right thing to do.

You are totally right that everyone should vote...but "terrorists hate the fact that we have the right to vote"? Seriously?

Let me raise a couple of points:

1. "Terrorists" isn't some all encompassing group that sit around a long mahogany table in high backed chairs, steepling their hands together like classic Bond villains, and plotting the downfall of "the American Satan". Terrorists have almost as many different idealogies and agendas as there are individual terrorists and terrorist cells. I doubt the IRA are planning to attack the White House any time soon.

2. If by "terrorists" you mean speicifically Al Queda, then here's a newsflash - they didn't attack America because of your right to vote or jealousy of your freedom - they attacked because America has been meddling in world politics, especially in the middle east, for decades, generally for their own self-serving agendas and damn the consequences to the rest of the world.

Now having got that off my chest, yes, I agree that everyone should vote. I used to be totally opposed to compulsory voting as a breech of personal freedoms, but it is the only way to get a vote that is truly representative of the public opinion, and not just of those that have been offered enticements to vote.

Yes, but it's also our right NOT to vote. That, and if you are a democrat in a large republican state, or vice versa, your vote tends not to matter...it's the whole Electoral College thing. We aren't listening to the people. More people wanted Gore anyway.

I don't vote and I'm not a dumbass... I'm under 18.

I would vote even if there was no one who supported my ideas. Vote for Nader or some other third party candidate. They wont win but then you open up the next election. Maybe to someone who does represent your ideals.

Isn't there something like a 'No Confidence' option on the ballot if no candidate is of appeal to you? I remember hearing something of the sort, and if not, then I could have sworn it was up under deliberation.