BEANER RANT: YOURE NOT VOTING? THEN, DONT COMPLAIN! This RANT is directed at some of my conservative friends. Really is a pet peeve of mine. If you dont vote, you dont matter! Parties care about what their voters think. If you’re not one of those voters, then politicians don’t care what you think. Which is something that a number of people who claim to be “on the right” or “speaking for The right” keep ignoring by saying that people should “send a message” by not voting. It doesn’t matter why you’re not voting, it just means you removed yourself from any say in what the politicians who were elected into office are going to do. Im really tired of hearing about their “principled stand” in refusing to participate. Which means that in real politics, their opinion amounts to a fart in the wind. Heres the point...The way you change the system, absent revolutions (which are inherently messy), is to vote. Principled stand “not to participate?” It’s crap. What it really amounts to is an excuse, a way of saying you don’t have any interest in changing things, and you really don’t care about any consequences. If you’re complaining about the “festering quagmire of a corporate political system” and you’re not voting, then what you just told me is that you really don’t give a hill of beans about that, as long as you think it won’t affect your comfortable little lifestyle. You also don’t get to call yourself “a base of the party.” Really, you don’t. A base is group of reliable voters. They’re the ones who are guaranteed to be in the voting booth on election day. Every election day. They’re the ones that politicians at all levels pay attention to, because they matter. If you’re not one of them, you can be ignored, and your screaming about principles and ideals will amount to “all sound and fury, signifying nothing.” November 4th is Election Day. The results of this election will affect you directly in your daily lives. If you can’t bring yourself to vote, then when something in your town or city isn’t done or turns out not to be acceptable to you, you can’t complain. After all, you believed there weren’t consequences, so when there are, remember… you asked for it.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:37:17 +0000
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