The 'throwing away your vote' fairy tale is the best way to keep the two party (and therefore fundamentally broken) system in place.
Vote *FOR* who you *WANT*. Period.
Any other approach is just playing into the hands of those that would eliminate our choice.
So... if you limit your vote to the two main parties, exclusively... you WANT no choice in your so-called democratic process?
Voting *against* someone is a child's approach. Learn the topics, and the candidates, and choose who you *WANT*, not who you don't. Voting against someone is easy, simple, and the lazy voter's way out. But gee, it makes GREAT rhetoric, doesn't it?
We all have a responsibility to do more than that in exercising our right to vote. Otherwise we may as well just openly acknowledge that we have no real power, and not vote at all. I'm sure many powers that be would love that.
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Date: 2004-07-06 03:07 pm (UTC)The 'throwing away your vote' fairy tale is the best way to keep the two party (and therefore fundamentally broken) system in place.
Vote *FOR* who you *WANT*. Period.
Any other approach is just playing into the hands of those that would eliminate our choice.
So... if you limit your vote to the two main parties, exclusively... you WANT no choice in your so-called democratic process?
Voting *against* someone is a child's approach. Learn the topics, and the candidates, and choose who you *WANT*, not who you don't. Voting against someone is easy, simple, and the lazy voter's way out. But gee, it makes GREAT rhetoric, doesn't it?
We all have a responsibility to do more than that in exercising our right to vote. Otherwise we may as well just openly acknowledge that we have no real power, and not vote at all. I'm sure many powers that be would love that.
I refuse.