Apathetic votersWhat bothers me, is that it reminds me of two things:
The republicans pretty much run the country right now. They have the opportunity to make all of the changes they've ever wanted to make. And what are they doing? Nothing. Sure, we have to take our shoes off at the airport now. Sure, more than half of the country wants to just pull out of Iraq and leave the Iraqis completely fucked, citing it as being the right thing to do. But where is the change? Where is the repeal of unfair taxes? The implosion of the superfluous government agencies that do nothing except force poor people into an endless cycle of government reliance? Maybe, God forbid, the repeal of unconstitutional firearm laws? None of that materialized. The republicans so far, feel as though they have failed to make the changes they were capable of making. This lost votes.
The republicans essentially "controlling government" has also led other republicans to believe that the democrats are down for the count. No longer a threat. The fight leaves you when you have nothing to fight for.
I don't know anyone who voted, other than my parents. My neighbors, my brothers and sisters... All republicans. Most felt Kilgore had Kaine beat, and they didn't need to vote. How many other republicans felt that way?
But that's ok. Your vote doesn't count for anything.
Devious Comments
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"Let's have a party
There's a full mo0n in the sky
It's the hour of the wolf
And I don't want to die"
~Oingo Boingo, No One Lives Forever
I'm not too sure how we got to the point where the Government that is run by the "people" is in fact run by "the lawyers". They have made our laws and our government so incredibly complicated and intimidating that "the people" pretty much feel outside of it. When was the last time you truely felt like part of "the government"?
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a "moderate". That just means that your views aren't all lopsided. It doesn't mean that you don't fight for your views, though it certainly has come to imply that, these days. I don't consider myself right or left. But the views that I do have, I feel passionately about. I vote, I refuse to shop at certain establishments, and I write or call my "representatives" (A lawyer in our government) at least monthly. I don't just bitch about them here on DA.
Consensus may be the enemy of action... Because the longer you sit around trying to get a consensus, the less time you have to take action, but that gives you time to scruinize your actions. Without that time, you don't have "well thought out actions" or a plan, you have "knee jerk reactions". Not good. I feel that these knee-jerk reactions are how we've ended up with such a convoluted government.
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Trying to change peoples' misconceptions about firearms. One photograph at a time.
Also, I'm all for checks and balances, but that's different than consensus-dependency. And you hit the nail on the head about the citizen being left out of their own government. Voting doesn't make us part the government. Voting, in itself, doesn't make us free. To0 often, we vote for the lesser of two or more evils when our goal should be the exterminance of ALL evil.
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"Let's have a party
There's a full mo0n in the sky
It's the hour of the wolf
And I don't want to die"
~Oingo Boingo, No One Lives Forever
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